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 New Phantom with a Weymann body, chassis 11-EX.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\3\ scan0123 | |
Date | 4th March 1926 | |
COPY. [Handwritten]: HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} (circled), 3-30, 9/3/26 TEST REPORT - 11-EX. NEW PHANTOMCodename for PHANTOM I. WEYMANN BODY. Consec. Day.: 62 Agg. Mileage.: 10,960 Total Running Hours.: 395 Average Speed.: 21.4 Date.: 4.3.26. MILEAGE. Start: 2305 Finish: 2464 Days: 159 PETROL. Start: 2 Added: 16 Finish: 6 Used: 12 Oil added.: ½ gall. Oil M.P.G.: 1230 Petrol M.P.G.: 13.3 Running Hours: 7 25/60 Route, condition, etc. Involuntary stops. Adjustments, work done. Remarks on running, etc. Avignon to Le CanadelHenry Royce's French residence. Road surface very bad; pot holes most part. Engine running well. No other report. Henry Boot. Drivers | ||