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1956 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud

United Kingdom • 21 May 2025

Vehicle Details

AI Listing Summary

This 1956 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I, chassis SBC108, features a Shell over Tudor Grey finish with Beige leather. It has undergone significant work, including over £30,000 at Hillier Hill in 2010 and £16,000 at NRT Motors in 2014-2015, with a recent £5,127.49 recommissioning in 2022. The car is reported to have covered 103,500 miles and comes with power steering, original handbook, tools, and spare keys, ready for its next owner.

Condition

7 / 10

Transmission:

Automatic

Chassis No:

SBC108

Odometer:

103,500 miles

Reg Number:

936 XUG

RHD/LHD:

RHD

PLEASE NOTE: This Lot has a specialist invoice on file from 2022 for recommissioning and maintenance work totalling £5,127.49p.

Launched in April 1955, the Silver Cloud was based on a completely new closed box-section frame that was reputedly fifty percent stiffer than that of the outgoing Silver Dawn.

The newcomer's elegant Standard Steel Saloon body was penned by in-house designer John Polwhele Blatchley, the proportions of which belied its considerable overall length of 17ft 8in.

Though the retention of a separate chassis allowed for the production of bespoke coachwork, all but 157 of the 2,360 Cloud Is produced featured the in-house offering.

Powered by an alloy-headed, 4887cc straight-six engine mated to 4-speed automatic transmission, the model utilised servo-assisted drum brakes all-round.

The suspension was independent with coil springs at the front and featured a live axle hung on semi-elliptic leaf springs at the rear.

Changes introduced in 1956 included the incorporati...