[Steve Stuckey]

This car is Phantom I 4RC, originally owned by Mharaja of Mysore. Fitted with its second body, a Hooper saloon.

Sorry that I can't help further with the Cairo Show car.

[karlosdeville]

Originally Posted by Steve Stuckey

This car is Phantom I 4RC, originally owned by Mharaja of Mysore. Fitted with its second body, a Hooper saloon.

Thanks Steve for making quick work of things as usual. Any pictures of the car with the first body? Even in current configuration she looks very attractive to me, especially the contrast of the aluminium bonnet with the bright paint.

Any luck on the green car from Bangalore in an earlier post?

[karlosdeville]

A picture of the famous Rajkot PII, regd RRR 65, courtesy Harit.

Attached please find a pic of a Rolls. This was the Rajkot car, having been sourced and taken out by one Bill Meredith Owen or similar name who had a Museum in UK at Stratford upon Avon. He was very proud of this car. The photo though was taken in Germany at an exhibition by my uncle in between Oct to Dec 1980. Question for Julian, when did this Museum close its doors? I believe that the car is still in circulation in Germany where it was sold on. There were some pics in the thread referring to this gent examining some Rolls in India, perhaps Julian can also tell us more about him.

Harit

[Julian UK]

Originally Posted by karlosdeville

A picture of the famous Rajkot PII, regd RRR 65, courtesy Harit.

I believe the Stratford Motor Museum closed in 1989
Here is the Sotheby’s catalogue for the auction of the contents of the museum in 1989.
Sothebys 1989 Contents of Stratford Motor Museum - €4.00 : ColumbusCat!, Online Auction Catalagues
Bill Meredith Owen also owned #71DC the 1926 Hyderabad Barker tourer

Here is the Pocher model of PII #118PY (the Rajkot car), which was copied from the car when he owned it.
Pocher-Modellbau-Forum :: Rolls Royce Torpedo Cabriolet 1934 Phantom II K/A 75


Here is a video of Hans-Günter Zach, present owner of #118PY and PI #6YC 1926 Windovers tourer ex-Nanpara
Oldtimer-TV.com - Oldtimer

Here is more about 118PY including a photo of its condition after it caught fire in 2001
Translated version of http://www.classicdriver.de/de/magazine/3200.asp?id=1136

[shyml]

Originally Posted by travancore

Shyml, unfortunately I do not have any more pictures, but will keep hunting. By the way, what colour is "Nile Blue" - light, medium or dark ? Thanks! If I remember, the other colour on the two-tone body was cream.

The Nile Blue colour is preserved under the black paint of chassis components, where the black paint has lost grip due to grease, e.g the side mount bracket for the spare wheels. The car also shows evidence of this Nile Blue on components like the differential. This is,to my knowledge, quite unusual as Chassis componets were invariably painted black, just like the bonnet undersides were left un painted. The ivory colour is not visible (yet) . Maybe after another 50 years. I am enclosing a picture with the Nile blue colour showing. I think the show car may have been given a blue colour on key components under the car, visible on a stand. I know for sure that Thrupp & Maberly did an outstanding job on this body with a disappearing top, and would have looked fascinating in Nile Blue and Ivory, with blue leather to front and rear, Grebel spot lamp etc. I think the top was off white/ivory too. It would have looked faboulous on the streets of Cairo with HH and his Egyptian wife driving to the palace of King Fuad and to Luxor in it.
P.S : Cannot figure out how to attach the photo. Will try later.

[aah78]

Originally Posted by shyml

Cannot figure out how to attach the photo.

This'll help: Uploading photographs directly to Team-BHP

[travancore]

Originally Posted by shyml

The Nile Blue colour is preserved under the black paint of chassis components, where the black paint has lost grip due to grease, e.g the side mount bracket for the spare wheels. The car also shows evidence of this Nile Blue on components like the differential. This is,to my knowledge, quite unusual as Chassis componets were invariably painted black, just like the bonnet undersides were left un painted. may have been given a blue colour on key components under the car, visible on a stand.

Shyml, the picture caption for the original body on the Home - Chassis Register page says "This display car even had the chassis components in blue". Don't know if they were your own words! Can't wait for the picture uploads

[shyml]

Thank you for guidance. Photo attached of 45WR side mount bracket showing Nile Blue colour.

Originally Posted by shyml

The Nile Blue colour is preserved under the black paint of chassis components, where the black paint has lost grip due to grease, e.g the side mount bracket for the spare wheels. The car also shows evidence of this Nile Blue on components like the differential. This is,to my knowledge, quite unusual as Chassis componets were invariably painted black, just like the bonnet undersides were left un painted. The ivory colour is not visible (yet) . Maybe after another 50 years. I am enclosing a picture with the Nile blue colour showing. I think the show car may have been given a blue colour on key components under the car, visible on a stand. I know for sure that Thrupp & Maberly did an outstanding job on this body with a disappearing top, and would have looked fascinating in Nile Blue and Ivory, with blue leather to front and rear, Grebel spot lamp etc. I think the top was off white/ivory too. It would have looked faboulous on the streets of Cairo with HH and his Egyptian wife driving to the palace of King Fuad and to Luxor in it.

P.S : Cannot figure out how to attach the photo. Will try later.

[Julian UK]

Originally Posted by shyml

Photo attached of 45WR side mount bracket showing Nile Blue colour.

Shyml, can you post any more photos of 45WR?

These photos of cars previously posted on team-bhp have also been identified by Park Ward

RR 25/30 #GGR56 1938 Thrupp & Maberly Limousine 1st owner N C Lakrawalla


Photo courtesy of "Dominator"


RR 25/30 #GMP28 1937 Gurney Nutting Tourer All Weather 1st owner Rt. Hon. Chethyar - in 1994 owned by a Mr. Bhargava





RR Silver ghost #2286 1913 Barker Limousine 1st owner Parshall F.h



All 3 photos from team-bhp. it would take an hour or so to find them again, the thread being so large now.

[DKG]

Originally Posted by Julian UK

RR 25/30 #GMP28 1937 Gurney Nutting Tourer All Weather 1st owner Rt. Hon. Chethyar - in 1994 owned by a Mr. Bhargava

The Momen car was identified as GRO 59

I forget the chassis number of BRG 1

Is the above car BRG 1 or a third existing in India? If so, wow, and anyone with a current colour picture? These Gurney Nutting RR's are my favourite when it comes to convertibles

[Julian UK]

Originally Posted by DKG

The Momen car was identified as GRO 59

I forget the chassis number of BRG 1

Is the above car BRG 1 or a third existing in India? If so, wow, and anyone with a current colour picture? These Gurney Nutting RR's are my favourite when it comes to convertibles

The Calcutta car is #GRO 59
The Delhi car (BRG 1) is GRO 48
These are Drop Head Cabriolet All Weather cars
The third car #GMP28 is a Tourer All Weather
There are differences, it won't have occasional seats.
Harit has 2 more photos of the car, I hope he/Karl will post them.

The green Thrupp & Maberly Limousine #GGR56 is one of the previously mentioned 3 identical limousines TC 1254 (apart from the louvred bonnet of #GGR56).
The other 2 are #GHO 43 and #GAR71. One is the much photographed Reg No. AP 10 D 8044 and the other was up for sale in Delhi as posted by Karl. Maybe both were posted by Karl as he is Post Master General here. It is of great national and international importance to find out which is which.

Here are the other 2 T&M Limos, which is #GHO 43 and which is #GAR 71?





Source of photos from elsewhere on team-bhp

[DKG]

Originally Posted by Julian UK

There are differences, it won't have occasional seats.
Harit has 2 more photos of the car, I hope he/Karl will post them.

Hope to see some pictures

Here are the other 2 T&M Limos, which is #GHO 43 and which is #GAR 71?

Both the cars are so beautifully proportioned. Very stately, but more elegant

[Chhayanat]

Originally Posted by Julian UK

The Calcutta car is #GRO 59
The Delhi car (BRG 1) is GRO 48
These are Drop Head Cabriolet All Weather cars
The third car #GMP28 is a Tourer All Weather
There are differences, it won't have occasional seats.
Harit has 2 more photos of the car, I hope he/Karl will post them.
Source of photos from elsewhere on team-bhp

On an itinerant visit to this excellent site I have to exhume this picture of another Gurney Nutting 25-30hp. The picture was taken in Dhanbad, then in Bihar in 1967. It was obtained for the then owner by my grandfather. The first owner, I was told, was a British businessman in Calcutta. It is not clear whether this GRO 59 in an earlier incarnation or a third drophead model.

[Julian UK]

Originally Posted by Chhayanat

On an itinerant visit to this excellent site I have to exhume this picture of another Gurney Nutting 25-30hp. The picture was taken in Dhanbad, then in Bihar in 1967. It was obtained for the then owner by my grandfather. The first owner, I was told, was a British businessman in Calcutta. It is not clear whether this GRO 59 in an earlier incarnation or a third drophead model.

Welcome back Chhayanat!
It has to be #GRO 59 for 2 main reasons
1 Gurney Nutting only built 2 DHCB bodies of this type (132)
2 It is the only one with the dipping fog/spot lights.
I don't doubt that a businessman in Calcutta once owned the car but I think the RR records of 1st owners must be accepted.

1937 #GRO48 DHCB (All Weather) Type:132 Gurney Nutting No:1776 Maharajah Kameshwar Singh of Darbhanga (Reg. No. BRG 1)
1937 #GRO59 DHCB (All Weather) Type:132 Gurney Nutting No.1777 Raja Harindar Singh Of Faridkot



I do hope you visit this site more often, your contributions have always been of great value and interest.

[Chhayanat]

Originally Posted by Julian UK

Welcome back Chhayanat!
It has to be #GRO 59 for 2 main reasons
1 Gurney Nutting only built 2 DHCB bodies of this type (132)
2 It is the only one with the dipping fog/spot lights.
I don't doubt that a businessman in Calcutta once owned the car but I think the RR records of 1st owners must be accepted.

1937 #GRO48 DHCB (All Weather) Type:132 Gurney Nutting No:1776 Maharajah Kameshwar Singh of Darbhanga (Reg. No. BRG 1)
1937 #GRO59 DHCB (All Weather) Type:132 Gurney Nutting No.1777 Raja Harindar Singh Of Faridkot

I do hope you visit this site more often, your contributions have always been of great value and interest.

I think I posted another picture of GRO59, taken when we had a short outing with the car on the outskirts of Dhanbad. I remember fiddling with the mixture setting controls on the steering wheel boss, and being impressed by the "loud" and "soft" settings on the horn. With the benefit of the enlarged picture I can make out part of the registration which would have been BRR 2100.

As to GMP28, (with Shri Hari Bhargava of Kanpur in the late 1960s), I have not come across any other picture other than the one posted by me. Are there some newer pictures?

Are there any other records, other than Indian ones, of this particularly elegant Gurney Nutting design? I posted a picture of a very similar body but it was not by Gurney Nutting and it had four doors.