• One of only 10 of its type built without an internal division • Originally ordered for Viscount Furness of Furness Enterprises • Shipped to Canada in 1975 • Multiple award winner "A grand total of 285 third-series four-headlamp machines were eventually produced, of which 54 had special body styles (49 of them from James Young, the other five all being from H J Mulliner Park Ward as something of a final flourish." - Graham Robson on the long-wheelbase Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III and S3 Bentley, The Rolls-Royce and Bentley , Volume 2.

Launched in 1962, the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III and its Bentley S3 equivalent employed their predecessors' 6.2-litre V8 engine - though with larger carburettors, new distributor and raised compression ratio - and came with a four-speed GM-derived automatic transmission as standard equipment.

Most obvious among many changes from the preceding models was the adoption of four-headlamp lighting; the absence of sidelights from the wing tops; and a slight...