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 an 11-EX New Phantom with a Weymann body.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\3\ scan0140 | |
Date | 24th March 1926 | |
COPY. Y8900 TEST REPORT - 11-EX. NEW PHANTOMCodename for PHANTOM I. WEYMANN BODY. Consec. Day.: 77 Agg. Mileage.: 13,844 Total Running Hours.: 509 35/60 Average Speed.: 16 Date.: 24.3.26. MILEAGE. Start.: 5224 Finish.: 5350 Days.: 126 PETROL. Start.: 6 Added.: 13 Finish.: 6 Used.: 13 Oil added.: Oil M.P.G.: Petrol M.P.G.: 10 Running Hours: 8 Route, condition, etc, involuntary stops. Adjustments, work done. Remarks on running, etc. Florence, Prato, Pistoga. Roads are exceedingly bad, no surface, only ruts and is very difficult to get any speed at all. engine running well. No other report. raining all day. mud and slush all along routes. (Sgd.) P.N. [Stamp: RECEIVED, 30 MAR 1926, H3] Drivers Henry Boot. | ||