Vehicle Description
1926 Rolls-Royce 45/50hp Silver Ghost 'Warwick' Town Car with open
front compartment.Coachwork by BrewsterRegistration no. DS
6498Chassis no. S165MLEngine no. 20655This Springfield-built,
left-hand drive Silver Ghost's first owner was none other than
William Brewster, head of the firm responsible for its body. By the
time this car was made it had become apparent that left-hand drive
was essential for the North American market, an alteration to the
Ghost chassis that necessitated the adoption of a new three-speed
gearbox with central change. Four-wheel brakes likewise had come to
be seen as a necessity rather than an indulgence, though the
American version used the New Phantom front axle together with a
Westinghouse vacuum booster rather than the British Ghost's
mechanical servo. 'S165ML' was the test chassis for this
modification, which remains in place to this day.In 1927 'S165ML'
passed to its second owner, Mrs Mary Dahlgren Robinson of Rye, New
York and in the 1950s was owned in Abington, Pennsylvania by two
members of the Schaub family. The next owner listed in the
accompanying records is one Duncan Merryweather of Chester Springs,
PA followed by Otto C Kohler of South Hadley, Massachusetts and
then E Andrew Mowbray of Lincoln, Rhode Island, who was the owner
when an article about the car was published in the Veteran Motor
Car Club of America's journal 'Bulb Horn' (November/December 1978
edition, copy available).Its next change of ownership would see
'S165ML' return to the UK, where it found a new home with Jack
Bradley of Glasgow in 1979. Mr Bradley kept the Rolls-Royce until
August 2009 when he sold it to the Real Car Co, from whom it was
purchased by the current vendor in June 2010. The tappets were set
by Alan Glew in July 2010 and he pronounced the engine healthy, and
the owner drove the car approximately 1,500 miles that year.
Outings included taking the Silver Ghost to the GRRC members'
enclosure at the Goodwood Revival meeting where it was greatly
admired.Finished in black and retaining its original body,
paintwork and patinated interior, the car is offered with the
aforementioned chassis cards and magazine article, and comes with
current MoT/tax and Swansea V5C document. A late Springfield Silver
Ghost with four-wheel brakes and Warwick town car coachwork,
'S165ML' represents the ultimate in Vintage motoring and is a
possible 'Conservation Class' Pebble Beach concours contender,
being remarkably correct and unmolested and yet eminently drivable
and usable.$195,000