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).
Proposing an amendment to a report on an accident involving vehicle 15-EX, specifically regarding skidding on wet roads.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 181\M10\ img064 | |
| Date | 16th April 1928 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Copy to:- BJ. X4199 CWB5/GM/16.4.28. ACCIDENT TO 15-EX. Thank you for your Hsl/LG13.4.28. I agree that points set down in this memo express the facts as I know them and convey correctly the impressions which I have of this accident. There is one slight addition which I think might also be made to Item 1, which reads as follows:- "Skidding which occurred with Mr. Grylls and with CWB. occurred on wet roads". I think the following should be added:- "The general character, however, of the road at the point where the accident occurred was not such as would lead one to expect any skidding, nor had there been any previous feeling of want of adhesion previously, although many many miles of exactly similar road had been covered at the same speed. Parsons' report on this road, as examined subsequent to the accident, bears out this view." If you agree would you please circulate this as an addition to your above quoted memo. CWB CWB. | ||