From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Accident report concluding a broken spring centre bolt was the cause, not the 4-wheel brakes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 73\3\ scan0433 | |
| Date | 27th August 1924 guessed | |
| contd :- -3- We consider that from the 19th. to the 25th. the car was run with the centre bolt broken and the front spring was not properly held. From the evidence we cannot attribute the accident to 4-wheel brakes. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||