Photo Credit: James Mann PROPERTY FROM THE LATE BOB BARRYMORE COLLECTION 1953 ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER DAWN DROPHEAD COUPE COACHWORK BY PARK WARD Chassis No. LSMF 4 Cream with brown leather interior and beige soft top Engine: six cylinders in-line, 4,257cc, inlet overhead exhaust valves, 125bhp at 4,000 rpm; Gearbox: Hydra-matic automatic; Suspension: front independent coil, rear, semi-elliptic leaf springs; Brakes: four wheel drum. Left hand drive. Until the second World War, Rolls-Royce had no coachbuilding facilities of their own, instead producing their automobiles as complete driving chassis to be sent to approved coachworks for the design and construction of bodies to their owners' requirements. One such coachbuilder was Park Ward, a North London house in which Rolls-Royce took a financial interest in the 1930s and which produced in some numbers a handsome all-steel 3½ and 4¼ litre four door Bentley saloon to a single design. In the austere 1940s, Rolls-Royce concentrated on the Silver Dawn, equipping the bulk of their production with their own good-looking standard steel four-door saloon. The company also offered the rather more rare Silver Wraith for clients who were able to contemplate the now very great cost of special coachwork. Rarer still were Silver Dawns with custom coachwork, for only a very few of this model were released for this purpose. Park Ward, now a fully owned Rolls-Royce coachbuilding subsidiary, and a quite prolific producer of formal and sporting coachwork on the Silver Wraith, had by 1953 evolved excellent proportions and a beguiling outline for its owner-driver designs. This example is therefore a very rare Rolls-Royce indeed, a Silver Dawn with bespoke two-door drophead coachwork. With its expertly executed sedanca soft top, it exhibits all the abundance of refined detailing for which this builder was prized. It was ordered by Mr. George Dawson, Swiss domiciled, and was equipped for Continental European use with left hand drive steering and a speedometer graduated in kilometers. A plain radiator cap - without the 'Flying Lady' - was originally specified, as were eight suitcases to suit the trunk's contours. Subsequently there were owners in England before a return to the city of Nice in France in the ownership of Mr. M.H. Poll in 1962. The car was purchased by Bob Barrymore in 1990. Park Ward dropheads from this period are now rare, and one built on the Dawn chassis is doubly so. This automobile represents an opportunity to obtain a preserved example that, while calling for recommissioning with some care, would be a rewarding acquisition.
Photo Credit: James Mann PROPERTY FROM THE LATE BOB BARRYMORE COLLECTION 1953 ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER DAWN DROPHEAD COUPE COACHWORK BY PARK WARD Chassis No. LSMF 4 Cream with brown leather interior and beige soft top Engine: six cylinders in-line, 4,257cc, inlet overhead exhaust valves, 125bhp at 4,000 rpm; Gearbox: Hydra-matic automatic; Suspension: front independent coil, rear, semi-elliptic leaf springs; Brakes: four wheel drum. Left hand drive. Until the second World War, Rolls-Royce had no coachbuilding facilities of their own, instead producing their automobiles as complete driving chassis to be sent to approved coachworks for the design and construction of bodies to their owners' requirements. One such coachbuilder was Park Ward, a North London house in which Rolls-Royce took a financial interest in the 1930s and which produced in some numbers a handsome all-steel 3½ and 4¼ litre four door Bentley saloon to a single design. In the austere 1940s, Rolls-Royce concentrated on the Silver Dawn, equipping the bulk of their production with their own good-looking standard steel four-door saloon. The company also offered the rather more rare Silver Wraith for clients who were able to contemplate the now very great cost of special coachwork. Rarer still were Silver Dawns with custom coachwork, for only a very few of this model were released for this purpose. Park Ward, now a fully owned Rolls-Royce coachbuilding subsidiary, and a quite prolific producer of formal and sporting coachwork on the Silver Wraith, had by 1953 evolved excellent proportions and a beguiling outline for its owner-driver designs. This example is therefore a very rare Rolls-Royce indeed, a Silver Dawn with bespoke two-door drophead coachwork. With its expertly executed sedanca soft top, it exhibits all the abundance of refined detailing for which this builder was prized. It was ordered by Mr. George Dawson, Swiss domiciled, and was equipped for Continental European use with left hand drive steering and a speedometer graduated in kilometers. A plain radiator cap - without the 'Flying Lady' - was originally specified, as were eight suitcases to suit the trunk's contours. Subsequently there were owners in England before a return to the city of Nice in France in the ownership of Mr. M.H. Poll in 1962. The car was purchased by Bob Barrymore in 1990. Park Ward dropheads from this period are now rare, and one built on the Dawn chassis is doubly so. This automobile represents an opportunity to obtain a preserved example that, while calling for recommissioning with some care, would be a rewarding acquisition.
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