Lot details Registration No: BWX 541 Chassis No: GWN15 Mot Expiry: Aug 2004
Whilst borrowing many of the design features of the exceptionally successful 20/25 predecessor, which was made with little change from 1929 until the 1936 season, the new small Rolls-Royce 25/30hp model, featured an enlarged 4257cc engine with simplified carburation, fuel supplied by twin SU pumps rather than the previous Autovac system of the 20/25 and hypoid rear axle. Of the 8459 small Rolls-Royces produced, a total of 1201 of them were 25/30s made at Derby from 1936 to 1939.
After being completed at the Rolls-Royce works in 1936, this 25/30 righthand drive chassis number GWN 15 went to the workshops of the Huddersfield craftsmen at Rippon Brothers Limited, Britain's oldest coachbuilders, who added the enclosed limousine bodywork still on the car today for the first owner, a Mr J Glover of Morley in Yorkshire. We understand that, postwar, this limo was then exported to the US in the 1960s, returning home in the 1980s, from when BWX 541 was cherished by a Birmingham enthusiast until his death last year.
Current condition of chassis and coachwork are described by the current owner as good, with blue over silver paintwork and blue interior also good. The 4.2-litre 6-cylinder motor is reportedly very good and the 4-speed manual gearbox also in good order. According to the vendor, this delightful prewar Yorkshire coachbuilt bodied Rolls 25/30 drives very well and is claimed to be in excellent running order.
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