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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: woodinsight on July 30, 2012, 03:54:32 PM

Title: Solved - MJW #967 - Rolls Royce (1950s chassis) Park Ward coachwork (1934)
Post by: woodinsight on July 30, 2012, 03:54:32 PM: I really don't believe that the information that accompanied the description of this car I found is correct.
A point is waiting for anyone who can provide a true identification (I don't know) and the story behind it.
You'll have to provide some proof to back it up as well.
Title: Re: MJW #967
Post by: Carnut on July 30, 2012, 05:54:12 PM: It reminds me of what my dog had for its breakfast this morning...!
Title: Re: MJW #967
Post by: woodinsight on July 30, 2012, 06:15:15 PM: Quote from: Carnut on July 30, 2012, 05:54:12 PM
It reminds me of what my dog had for its breakfast this morning...!
A "Dog's Breakfast" - you've just created a new term for us early risers who are 'optically assaulted' when we switch on and are presented with images similar to this one! :D
Title: Re: MJW #967
Post by: woodinsight on August 06, 2012, 04:30:00 PM: Experts - I need your help with this one!
Title: Re: MJW #967
Post by: bentleybob on August 06, 2012, 08:00:59 PM: It is a marriage, this one. It is a pre war Park Ward sports saloon body, if I recall correctly, from a 20/25 Rolls Royce which got fitted to a much later Rolls-Royce or Bentley chassis (fifties production), but not neccessarily as the first body on that chassis, with a Rolls Royce radiator, anyway. The postwar chassis are too short to allow for a gracefully fitted side spare wheel, so it rides too high, and because of the postwar independent front suspension, the radiator and engine were moved forward so all proportions go out of the window. It also seem to sit on Silver Cloud wheels, with fairly fat tyres, so the car rides lower as well. And given time, and unless somebody tells me otherwise, one day I may even come up with a reference to the above, which I have soemwhere, well hidden, alas.
Of course in the old days, eccentric owners did request to have the body of their old car to be transferred. Usually this was because they were used to having lots of space and headroom, but this does not seem to be the case here, the fitted body being fairly cramped. Also a number of the fittings in the front have been executed in a rather odd fashion, which raises the question if it is a really tasteless recent creation, a rather bad restoration or even odder originally.
Title: Re: MJW #967
Post by: woodinsight on August 07, 2012, 11:55:39 AM: Thanks for the full explanation of this strange car bentleybob.
The description I have is that it is a post-war Rolls-Royce chassis fitted with a 1934 body that had come from a 20/25 RR.
Only difference is that I have the body by a different, but equally well-known, coachbuilder.
Are you sure it's a Park Ward?
I'll LOCK it for you to comment on that before I award you the point.
Title: Re: MJW #967
Post by: bentleybob on August 07, 2012, 01:34:31 PM: I have seen it described on a Swedish site as a James Young body, but it has very little similarity with their designs. I will stay on it, as I inevitably will run to into more on this...
Title: Re: MJW #967
Post by: woodinsight on August 07, 2012, 02:00:48 PM: Quote from: bentleybob on August 07, 2012, 01:34:31 PM
I have seen it described on a Swedish site as a James Young body, but it has very little similarity with their designs. I will stay on it, as I inevitably will run to into more on this...
Yes, that's what I had it as....
I'll call it solved for the moment and as usual welcome any further information.
In the meantime another point for you.