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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).
Test report for the 11-EX New Phantom with a Weymann body, detailing a day's running.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 71\3\  scan0075
Date  15th January 1926
  
J.S.
COPY. X8950
TEST REPORT - 11-EX - NEW PHANTOMCodename for PHANTOM I. WEYMANN BODY.

First Table:
Consec. Day.: 25
Agg. Mileage.: 4143
Total Running Hours.: 141 30/60
Average Speed. (Days): 35.0
Date.: 15.1.26.

MILEAGE.
Start.: 2898
Finish.: 3121
Days.: 223

PETROL.
Start.: 2
Added.: 25 1/2
Finish.: 7
Used.: 22

Oil added.: ✓
Oil M.P.G.: 4700
Petrol M.P.G.: 10.1
Running Hours.: 6 20/60

Route, condition, etc; involuntary stops; adjustments; work done; remarks on running, etc.
Nantes, Vannes, Nantes, Les Sables d'Overin, Nantes.
Roads generally good.
Car running well.
Brake thud less pronounced
Some snow.
Less popping in exhaust.
No signs of steering stiffening.

Drivers CWB.
  
  


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