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\ scan0092 | |
| Date | 31th January 1926 | |
| COPY. V8900 TEST REPORT - 11-EX - NEW PHANTOMCodename for PHANTOM I. WEYMANN BODY. Consec. Day: 38 Agg. Mileage: 6896 Total Running Hours: 237 30/60 Average Speed: 36.0 Date: 31.1.26. MILEAGE. Start: 5610 Finish: 5874 Days: 264 PETROL. Start: 13 1/2 Added: 17 1/2 Finish: 2 Used: 29 Oil Added: 1 Pint after 768 miles. Oil M.P.G.: 6100 M.P.G Petrol M.P.G.: 9.1 Running Hours: 7 20/60 Route, condition, etc; involuntary stops; adjustments; work done; remarks on running, etc. Paris, Senlis, Paris, Amiens, Abbeville, Boulogne. Roads generally good. Mostly dry, some very greasy stretches. Car running very well. Plenty of power. Engine pinking badly. Consumption very poor. Clutch stop O.K. Controls in steering column rattle. Some intermittent popping in exhaust. Brakes generally good. Some tendency to skid on greasy surface when braking strongly. ? are the [handwritten: front wheel] brakes efficient. All shock absorbers set up much firmer with improved results. Now O.K. at high speeds, but car rides heavily when moving slowly. Oil leak from engine much worse, it would appear that outlet from ignition oil servo is choked. Drivers: CWB. and Garner. | ||