I can clear up a couple.
Frank Proud
On the way into Mortagne my stoker's pedal fell out. When I tried to put in back in, the threads were shredded. We limped into the control site on three cylinders and saw the mechanics, but they didn't have the kit to help, or even a new chainset, which would have done. So we were out.
I rode back to Rambouillet and met Barry Brown and Robert Gray and we had a beer or two in the bar by the market. They had both stopped for reasons of heat, not feeling well, not feeling up for it, etc. Barry had got to Villaines and Robert to Mortagne.