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 a New Phantom with a Weymann body, detailing a road test from Grenoble to Grasse.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\3\ scan0135 | |
| Date | 18th March 1926 | |
| COPY. TEST REPORT - 11-KX. NEW PHANTOMCodename for PHANTOM I. WEYMANN BODY. First Table: Consec. Day.: 73 Agg. Mileage.: 13,291 Total Running Hours.: 481 50/60 Average Speed.: 31 Date.: 18.3.26. MILEAGE. Start.: 4535 Finish.: 4795 Days.: 260 PETROL. Start.: 8 Added.: 18 Finish.: 0 Used.: 26 Data Table: Oil added. Oil M.P.G. Petrol M.P.G.: 10 Running Hours: 8 25/60 Route, condition, etc. involuntary stops. adjustments, work done. Remarks on running, etc. Grenoble to Grasse. (Call at Nice for tyres(. Road surface good but very hilly. Car running very well. Two new tyres fitted to spare wheels. Base cleaned and new oil put in. Chassis greased all round. Batteries topped. Near side doors back and front attended to at coachbuilders. N.S. front door lock fitted with bolts instead of screws. N.S. rear door chain detached on road, which raises and lowers windows. Henry Boot. Drivers | ||