Vehicle Description
One of 5 Built 1953 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn Drophead Coup? by Park
Ward Left Hand DriveThis Left-Hand Drive 1953 Rolls-Royce Silver
Dawn Drophead Coupe by Park Ward is an extremely handsome original
example that runs and drives well. Burgundy with tan leather
interior and retaining its original engine. It is one of the very
few examples of the coachbuilt Silver Dawn available. The
Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn was a surpassingly rare basis for custom
coachwork, with only 64 examples being released by the factory as a
bare chassis. Chassis number LSNF41 was one of five Silver Dawns
bodied by Park Ward to their design number 99, of which four,
including this one, were left-hand-drive. Originally delivered to
Colonel W.E. Phillips, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the
Canadian farm equipment manufacturer Massey-Ferguson, in October
1953. Extensive original specifications included both a Sonabel and
dual Windtone hornsundoubtedly handy in Toronto trafficas well as
automatic gearbox, dual fog lamps, a power-operated hood, radio,
under-dash header, and Sundym tinted glass. Curiously, the Colonel
also requested Bentley-style dual exhaust, and had the car fitted
upon delivery with French-specification headlamps, as he intended
to use it in that country. The original livery was Blue and
Silver-Gray, with Blue leather interior. If the Silver Dawn ever
did venture outside of Canada, within several years it had returned
to that country. In the summer of 1956, it was acquired by another
important figure in the country?s industry, Jack Kent Cooke, a
broadcasting baron now best remembered for his later business
interests in sports team ownership in the United States. Later
Canadian owners included the prolific Rolls-Royce enthusiast Gordon
E. Smith of Orillia, Lawrence Szabo of Hamilton, and lumber magnate
Fred R. MacDonald of Toronto. In 1963 it moved to the United States
in the ownership of Dr. John Bowers, another well-known Rolls-Royce
collector in Kokomo, Indiana, and was later owned for nearly a
quarter of a century by John M. Herman of Philadelphia. It was then
part of the noted American collection of Jim Covert, known for his
attraction to exceptionally high-quality automobiles. One of five
examples built to this design and an original left hand drive
model. One of five examples built to this design; an original
left-hand-drive model Built for Canadian farm equipment tycoon
Colonel W.E. Phillips Handsome original driverPrice: $169,500
