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Over-oiling problem with the New Phantom car engine after 10,000-mile tests.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 72\1\  scan0044
Date  21th September 1925
  
W/S. {Derby Works / Sales}
To H {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} /CD. from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} XS980 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 5/LG21.9.25.

NEW PHANTOM(Codename for PHANTOM I) OVER-OILING.

H {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} /CD1/BP19.9.25. Excessive oil consumption has been complained of on every experimental Phantom car which has run a 10,000 miles test.

At the Conference held in Derby 12.3.25 at which the first programme for E.A.C. deliveries was got out, it was pointed out that the over-oiling of the engine was a problem which had not been solved.

Experimental cars do not suffer from over-oiling when run under normal conditions.

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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).


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