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 a New Phantom with a Weymann body, detailing route, performance data, and faults found during testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\3\ scan0084 | |
| Date | 22th January 1926 | |
| of HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 18800 COPY. TEST REPORT - 11-EX - NEW PHANTOMCodename for PHANTOM I. WEYMANN BODY. First Table: Consec. day: 32 Agg. Mileage: 5610 Total Running hours: 195 Average Speed (Days): 27 1/2 Date: 22.1.26. Second Table (MILEAGE): Start: 4389 Finish: 4588 Days: 199 Third Table (PETROL): Start: 8 Added: 19 1/2 Finish: 10 Used: 17 1/2 Fourth Table: Oil added: ✔ Oil M.P.G.: 4800 Petrol M.P.G.: 11.4 Running Hours: 7 15/60 Route, condition, etc; involuntary stops, adjustments; work done; remarks on running, etc. Castres, Carcassonne, Narbonne, Beziers, Nimes, Avignon. Some climbing and snow. Roads mostly good, some very bad stretches. Car generally running well. Engine pinking badly. Shock absorbers appear to have worn or worked out of adjustment. Will be readjusted. Indicator of petrol gauge remains fixed if cover glass is screwed hard down. Controls in steering column rattling badly. Cutout control inoperative, probably due to caked mud. Drivers: CWB. with Bgs. and Garner. | ||