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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\  scan0061
Date  4th January 1926
  
HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} COPY. OJ.
X8900
TEST REPORT - 11-EX - NEW PHANTON.
WEYMANN BODY.

Consec. Day. | Agg. Mileage. | Total Running Hours. | Average Speed. | Date.
14. | 2248 | 80 35/60 | 22.0 (Days) | 4.1.26.

MILEAGE:
Start. | Finish. | Days.
1116 | 1226 | 110

PETROL.
Start. | Added. | Finish. | Used.
7 | 13 | 9 | 11

Oil added. | Oil M.P.G. | Petrol M.P.G. | Running Hours.
✓ | | 10.0 | 5

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

About and outside London.
Roads dry. Fine.
Stiffness of steering immediately relieved by oiling wheel pivots.
Throttle stuck open on two occasions, on one of which the throttle itself appeared to be stuck.
New blade fitted to Smith windscreen wiper.
Car left at H.J. Mulliner for attention to doors and windows which are leaking.

Drivers Garner.
  
  


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