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Test report for the 11-EX New Phantom with a Weymann body.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 71\3\  scan0085
Date  23th January 1926
  
COPY.
L8890
OJT.
Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
TEST REPORT - 11-EX - NEW PHANTOM(Codename for PHANTOM I). WEYMANN BODY.

Consec. day. | Agg. Mileage. | Total Running Hours. | Average Speed. | Date.
133 | 5816 | 201 10/60 | 33.4 | 23.1.26.
(Days)

MILEAGE.
Start. | Finish. | Days.
4588 | 4794 | 206

PETROL.
Start. | Added. | Finish. | Used.
10 | 19 1/2 | 5 | 24 1/2

Oil added. | Oil M.P.G. | Petrol M.P.G. | Running Hours.
[blank] | 4800 | 8.4 | 6 10/60

Route, condition, etc; involuntary stops; adjustments; work done; remarks on running, etc.

Avignon, Montelimar, Lyon, la {L. A. Archer} Tandu Pin, Lyon.
Roads generally good, some very bad stretches.
Strong head wind. Some snow.
Car riding much better and stability better with less bumping after adjustment of shock absorbers; 1/4 turn taken up all round and later an additional 1/6 turn on O.S.F.
Steering sticky on extreme locks.
Controls rattling badly.
Cut-out now O.K. but stiff. Am oiling all joints tonight.
Severe pinking.
1 1/2 pints of water added to radiator to bring up to level.
This is first added for 5,000 miles and has, I consider, been shaken out.

Drivers CWB. with Bgs. and Garner.
  
  
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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