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| ![]() Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, 1921 Silver Ghost | Conceptcarz.com - Pictures, Pricing, Information, Wallpaper, History I've erroneously posted 2 different cars of the same page. Conceptcarz seem to have mixed the photos up. I presume the grey one is the India Car 47 AG. Its definitely a pre 1924 Ghost with no front brakes. Later cars had radiator shutters. Springfield Ghosts had horizantal as well as vertical shutters. The maroon one is a US built Springfield Ghost with the American barrel headlights, it shouldn't have been posted, I was in a hurry at the time ![]() I'll ask the mods to remove it. Last edited by Julian UK : 31st March 2008 at 20:02. |
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(Chassis 179XJ). Car is shown on page 204 of The Derby Phantoms (with 1st owner listed as A. Mertzenoff) source: Blackhawk Museum, California ![]() ![]() ![]() Rewa 1929 Phantom-II Open Tourer by Hooper (Chassis # 86XJ) - "Emerald of Rewa" source maybe Traumautoarchiv ![]() ![]() Hope that clarifies it (to the best of my archives), Julian!!! | |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() Some more misc Rollers courtesy xoticars. These are from the Ram Chander Nath collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Delhi Statesman rally, 89 and 2004. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This one has such strange coachwork, not unlike a 30s American car! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| ![]() Nice collection. I think DLK 641 was a PI ? This was the car we had a bit of a race with down the Gurgaon road in one of the Delhi rallies, I was in the Hispano H6B. What fun! ![]() The 1912 Ghost is lovely and still has the original trembler coil and box. In the late eighties the father asked me to work on their cars but I was too busy. |
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| ![]() Nightingale Coachtrimming Any ideas about this one? I think its one of the cars Jonathan Harley was coming to India to work on. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() By the way those peculiar artillery wheels were originally on the following car (your Bus ![]() ![]() Last edited by DKG : 2nd April 2008 at 17:19. | |
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For twenty years I yearned to tackle that Delauney-Belleville and just after we moved back to UK it was bought and available for me to restore. One of the biggest regrets of my life. ![]() ![]() Last edited by Rehaan : 3rd April 2008 at 05:25. Reason: 2 smileys :) | |
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Talking of Calcutta, Pradyumna Mallick (from the famous merchant and art connoisseur family of North Calcutta) had amassed 34 Rolls Royces when he committed suicide in the mid-thirties. My grandfather went to buy some for his motor-car business in the Bihar coalfields but told me he found the prices high (for him, that is): actually the prices were shockingly low. | |
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Very unfortunate... Last edited by Julian UK : 3rd April 2008 at 06:04. | |
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I think there was one other gentleman from Calcutta, I forget his name, through whom some fabulous cars passed. There was once an article on his cars in an old Indian Auto journal. Will try to find that copy. | |
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| ![]() There's a lovely photograph of a 1912 Ghost in Calcutta previously owned by the Maharajah of Patiala here: VCCA (N.S.W.) K Model Ford Page It would be lovely to include the photo in this collection. ![]() Last edited by Julian UK : 3rd April 2008 at 18:45. |
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| ![]() Lovely photo isn't it. |
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