Rolls Royce - Model??

[Damp Logs]

Would anyone be able to tell anything about this car?
I have looked on gov.uk, and it doesn't come up.
Photo was taken in the 1970s, so may have long gone.
We used it as part of a wedding car business, but it wasn't ours.

Thanks

[Dave Hedgehog]

a boat tail speedster of some type, but it appears they made a lot of different ones

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Wednesday 17th August 15:07

[TooMany2cvs]

I'd guess at a 20hp, from the 1920s, perhaps an early '30s 20/25.

Who built the body is anybody's guess.

[Roy C]

I believe this is one of the last Silver Ghosts, chassis 48PK.
This 1923 car started life as an experimental front wheel brake chassis for testing in France, where it was involved in a minor accident before being returned to Derby for repair.
It was subsequently sold and bodied as a Park ward All-Weather Convertible.
The body pictured was built by coachbuilder Tony Robinson in the late 1970s as the second of a pair of boat-tailed Ghosts.

[dbdb]

Damp Logs said:

Would anyone be able to tell anything about this car?
I have looked on gov.uk, and it doesn't come up.
Photo was taken in the 1970s, so may have long gone.
We used it as part of a wedding car business, but it wasn't ours.

Thanks

According to this site http://www.automobileweb2.net/index.php?page=silve...

It is a Silver Ghost bodied by Park ward and delivered new to a customer in Switzerland. it would seem to have had quite a history, serving as a test vehicle for the New Phantom, according to the link..

[dbdb]

Posted at the same time as me - but yours is knowledge, mine is only Googling!!

[Roy C]

dbdb said:

Posted at the same time as me - but yours is knowledge, mine is only Googling!!

The knowledge is merely knowing where to look,.....the other 30% is Google.

[TooMany2cvs]

...and it's currently for sale...

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C757871
http://hymanltd.com/vehicles/5617-1923-rolls-royce...

St Louis, Missouri - and only $225k!

[Damp Logs]

Well, that blows me away!!
I didn't get to drive it, but do remember cleaning it, and trying to get rid of confetti!! Some couple will have photos in their wedding album with it!!
Really good to know its still around, even if not in UK.

Thanks for your replies, and still amazed at the depth of knowledge on PH.

Got a photo of a Cloud LWB somewhere, which I used to love driving - will see if I can find it.

[dbdb]

Roy C said:

dbdb said:

Posted at the same time as me - but yours is knowledge, mine is only Googling!!

The knowledge is merely knowing where to look,.....the other 30% is Google.

I actually thought it was a Phantom.