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, a speed estimate, and clutch trouble.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 181\M10\ img070 | |
| Date | 20th April 1928 guessed | |
| 3 a colossal biff it- must have had. R.{Sir Henry Royce} is most upset- about the accident. He seems to think that Arylls letter was an insult to his intelligence, also that 50 M.P.H. is a ludicrous estimate of the speed, but my impression is that the actual skid might have occurred at 55. M.P.H. We have had clutch trouble. In the rush the clutch was apparently erected without oil. The back spigot that slides within the ball race was rusty & a tight fit- | ||