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).
First-person account of a road accident involving a car and a horse.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 113\4\ scan0062 | |
Date | 3rd February 1937 guessed | |
described by I. Waller As I was well over to my left, I immediately drove the car over to the right-hand side of the road on to the grass verge to avoid obstruction. While ascertaining the extent of injury to I Waller & Berham, the man who was leading the horses came up & told us one of his horses was injured & the other had bolted, after Waller had climbed out of the back of the car, we then found the horse dead & the man lying beside it, he had a cut on the cheek but showed no signs of serious injuries. I drove the car to a nearby farm, where they telephoned for a doctor to attend the injured man. I was uninjured, Waller has detailed his own injuries & Berham's injuries. I N Race | ||