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The 20/25 also enabled Rolls-Royce to quickly capitalize on its 1931 acquisition of Bentley Motors Ltd. As part of integrating its acquisition, Rolls-Royce management discontinued the Bentley 8 Litre car due to the perceived market overlap with the Phantom II. This meant the acquisition brought with it the Bentley brand; debt; engineers; and ...
However, Park Ward, another coachbuilder which had come to specialise in Rolls-Royce and Bentley bodies, had been a wholly owned subsidiary of Rolls-Royce since 1939. As well as Rolls-Royce and Bentley, Barker also constructed bodywork on chassis by other manufacturers including Daimler, Napier, Packard, Cadillac, Duesenberg, and Mercedes-Benz.
This Rolls-Royce appears in films such as The Naked Truth (1957), Death on the Nile (1978), and several others. Although the sultan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) calls his car a Phantom II, the technical details he recites are those of the 25/30. However, the actual on-screen car was neither; it was a 1935 20/25.
Rolls-Royce 40-50hp Phantom II 'Continental' Sports Saloon Henry Royce had body designer Ivan Evernden design him a one-off short-wheelbase Phantom II. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Designated 26EX, [ 1 ] the car had a tuned engine, [ 6 ] five-leaf springs that were stiffer than standard [ 1 ] and a Barker four-seat lightweight close-coupled saloon body painted ...
By 1930, 90% of all of Park Ward's efforts were for Rolls-Royce. [1] After the Rolls-Royce take-over of Bentley in 1931, Rolls-Royce took a stake in Park Ward. Beginning in 1933, when they obtained patents, Park Ward developed a technically interesting all-steel saloon in conjunction with Rolls-Royce, and from 1936 offered it on the 4¼-litre ...
Mulliner Park Ward was a coachbuilder formed as a subsidiary by Rolls-Royce in 1961 to supply it custom bodywork for its automobiles. Located in Hythe Road, Willesden, London, it was created by merging two existing Rolls-Royce properties, Park Ward of Willesden, London, a subsidiary since 1939 and H. J. Mulliner & Co. of Chiswick, a subsidiary since 1959. [1]
Rolls-Royce - more than 150; Bentley; Weymann bodies on Stutz chassis; Isotta Fraschini; Daimler In both the 1948 and 1949 London Motor Shows Lancefield displayed Daimler Straight-Eight limousines specially equipped with a full length stretcher and extensive medical equipment to carry an invalid and they were awarded a Silver Gilt medal.
Harold Radford & Co. Limited was a British retailer specialising in Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars. Situated in Melton Court, South Kensington, London SW7, opposite South Kensington tube station, the company, under G. Harold Radford, developed a bespoke coach-building business in the late 1940s named Harold Radford (Coachbuilders) Limited.