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Body no. M482 7,431cc L-head inline six-cylinder engine Single Rolls-Royce Carburetor 4-speed manual transmission Live front axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs and live rear axle with platform cantilever rear suspension Rear-wheel mechanical drum brakes -Known history from new -Single Family ownership since 1934 -Recent $165,000 well documented restoration -Desirable open coachwork -Excellent for show or tours The 40/50hp Silver Ghost Soon after it started Rolls-Royce adopted a single model policy, concentrating all its efforts, engineering and development on the 40/50hp six-cylinder series known by the name of its earliest successful example, the Silver Ghost. But while Rolls-Royce stayed with a single model designation the Silver Ghost was anything but static in engineering, design or features. The Silver Ghost was rugged, powerful, strong and quiet. It would cruise all day, swallowing up long distances in comfort and silence. At the same time its quiet and relaxed low speed operation was ideally suited to restrained and elegant duty under limousine and town car coachwork. The Silver Ghost proved to be so suitable that, in addition to the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby, Rolls-Royce set up production facilities in the United States in 1920, choosing Springfield, Massachusetts for its access to suppliers and for the ample supply of skilled craftsmen trained in the armories and machine tool factories of the Connecticut River valley and New England. The first Springfield Silver Ghosts were assembled from kits of parts brought from England but the Springfield works steadily added American vendors for accessories and electrical systems and expanded its manufacturing capabilities. After a few years even managers from Derby were rating the Springfield built Rolls-Royce automobiles the equal of Derby-built cars. Some of them even rated the Springfield product to be better. Updated features and mechanical refinements were first applied to Derby-built Rolls-Royces, then added to the Springfield-built cars so the American product was late to get such improvements as four-wheel brakes. On the other hand, many of the American components were better than those available in the U.K. and the Springfield-built Rolls-Royces soon featured American-made Bosch magnetos and coil ignition, Bijur generators and starters and American-made wire wheels. Several external attributes of the Springfield cars were unique, particularly the tubular bumpers and drum-style headlights. All were bodied with American-built coachwork, sometimes by Brewster but mostly, at least during the Silver Ghost era, provided by a number of coachbuilders which worked to open orders for cataloged bodies from Rolls-Royce and which were then identified only as made by Rolls-Royce Custom Coachworks. The American coachwork was frequently distinguishable from its British counterparts, being visually lighter, less formal and more suited to being used by owner-operators. The Motorcar Offered An East Coast car since new, 332XH was originally delivered as a Pall Mall to F.E. Campbell of Larchmont Manor, New York on March 19, 1923. Campbell retained the car until April 9, 1930 when records indicate it passed to its next owner, a C.B. Halsey of New York City. By the early 1930s, Mr Halsey had seemingly fallen on hard times as the car was repossessed by a bank and sold to N.W. Starr of Waterbury, Connecticut in October of 1934. Retained by the family and heirs of Mr Starr since his purchase, 332XH was restored in Woodridge, NJ in the late 1960s with the work completed in 1970. For the next two decades the car was actively shown at AACA and RROC events achieving National First Place and Senior Status in 1971 with the former and tying for International First Place in the Late Ghost Class in 1972 with the latter. As with many New Englanders in their 50s and 60s, 332XH spent some time in Florida before returning to the Northeast in the late 1990s. After decades of active use and successful dis