• Displayed on the Barker & Co stand at the 1937 Earls Court Motor Show • Known ownership history • Present ownership since 2009 • Maintained by pre-war Rolls-Royce specialists Silver Chalice, Sheffield • Recently repainted and re-chromed • Dry stored between 2018 and 2022 This magnificent Phantom III was built for the Motor Show of 1937, the first to be held at Earls Court, where it was exhibited on the barker & Co stand.

First registered as 'CWR 450' on 9th November 1937 to British Ropes Ltd of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, the Phantom passed through the hands of HR Owen, London in 1945 and circa 1946 was registered to one Fredrick Lawrence of St Ives, Cornwall.

Mr Lawrence was followed by Captain Wilson Filmer of Little Weighton, Hull in 1947, and from 1959 by Ray Rutherford-Smith.

The Rolls-Royce subsequently passed through various hands until it was acquired in 1976 by Stanley Thompson of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, who owned it until 1993.

John Breheney of Beccles Norfolk owned th...