1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Touring Saloon

Lot details
Registration No: ALK 142
Chassis No: 24PY
Mot Expiry: None

`Park Ward & Co maintain their high reputation for elegance and originality in the 40/50hp Rolls-Royce Continental Touring Saloon with Division' - The Motor reporting on chassis 24PY at the 1933 Olympia Motor Show.

Bought off the coachbuilder's stand by Ernest Barron Esq for £2,750 and sold via his executors to Captain William Hill some three years later, `ALK 142' returned to Park Ward for a minor refurbishment during 1946-47 prior to being used in the Moira Shearer ballet film Red Shoes. Discarded following an overheating incident, the Phantom II was purchased from Mascot Motors by renowned marque enthusiast (and third owner) Lawrence Dalton in March 1960. Still retaining much of its original paint, the next few years saw chassis 24PY benefit from a new cylinder head, camshaft and followers not to mention a re-upholstered driver's compartment and replacement headlining / carpets. Illustrated in Dalton's books `Those Elegant Rolls-Royce' and `The Derby Phantoms', the four-seater accompanied him on three Continental excursions and broke through the 100,000 mile mark during the 1967 Goodwood weekend. Migrating to Southern Ireland early the following decade but back in the UK by 1978 when a contemporaneous MOT certificate listed its recorded mileage as 4,799 (104,799?), `ALK 142' changed hands again via a Sotheby's auction held at the RREC's 1992 Annual Rally. Treated to some £3,254.54 worth of fettling by Unit 4 Restorations of Towcester thereafter, the Phantom II is also understood to have been entrusted to Tony James for an £8,000 engine overhaul (though, unfortunately the relevant invoice has been lost). Registered to John Small Esq and Andrew MacGill Esq prior to entering the current ownership, chassis 24PY appears to have covered just 268 miles since its last MOT certificate was issued on May 3rd 1996 at an indicated 6,289 miles. A deserving restoration project, it is offered for sale with original and continuation buff logbooks plus sundry other paperwork.