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.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\3\ scan0055 | |
| Date | 30th December 1925 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} COPY. GJ. X8900 TEST REPORT - 11-EX - NEW PHANTON. WEYMANN BODY. Consec. Day.: 11 Agg. Mileage.: 1807 Total Running Hours.: 65 20/60 Average Speed.: (days) 33.5 Date.: 30.12.25. MILEAGE: Start: 528 Finish: 785 Days: 257 PETROL: Start: 7 Added: 28 Finish: 10 Used: 25 Oil added. (Total): 1 Pint Oil M.P.G.: 8292 Petrol M.P.G.: 10.3 Running Hours.: 7 40/60 Route, condition, etc; involuntary stops; adjustments; work done; remarks on running, etc. London, Bournemouth, etc & London. Road good except where repairs & reconstruction in hand. Very wet and stormy. All features as previously. Car running well. Drivers CWB and Garner. Stiffening up of steering pronounced. The appears to be relieved completely by oiling pivots and cross steering yoke. New speedometer steady but sluggish. (sgd.) CWB | ||