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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 an 11-HA New Phantom with a Weymann body, detailing a road test in Italy.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 71\3\  scan0141
Date  25th March 1926
  
COPY.
TEST REPORT - 11-HA. NEW PHANTOMCodename for PHANTOM I. WEYMANN BODY.
Connec. Day.: 78
Agg. Mileage.: 13,986
Total Running Hours.: 517 35/60
Average Speed.: 18
Date.: 25.3.26.
MILEAGE.
Start.: 5350
Finish.: 5492
Days.: 142
PETROL.
Start.: 6
Added.: 17
Finish.: 12
Used.: 11
Oil added.: -
Oil M.P.G.:
Petrol M.P.G.: 13
Running Hours: 8
Route, condition, etc. involuntary stops. adjustments, work done. Remarks on running, etc.
Florence, Lucca, Pisa.
Roads are appalling; pot holes, train and tram lines all along main roads out of Florence for at least 10 miles.
Engine and car running well.
Mud and slush all along routes taken.
(Sgd.) P.N.
Drivers Henry Boot.
  
  


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