Classic Cars / / Car for sale

1928 Rolls-Royce 20hp Park Ward Landaulette GYL62

Sale price: £45,000.00 make an offer

Car location: Bethesda, United Kingdom

Sale type: Fixed price listing

Technical specifications, photos and description:

Year:
1928
Engine:
3,127
Previous Owners:
3
Got questions?
Ask here!

1928 Rolls-Royce 20hp Park Ward Landaulette GYL62 for sale

Current customer rating: current rating for this car(2.1) based on 228 votes
An original-bodied four light Landaulette. re-painted in recent years. nicely re-upholstered in red leather throughout. and both the fixed and folding part of the roof has been re-covered in suitable mohair. Mechanically in good order. running nicely. and benefiting from a recently overhauled gearbox. Other work in the past few years is well documented and includes overhauled dynamo. and a very nicely re-nickel plated set of correct Lucas lamps. An attractive car. with correct 20" wheels. rear-mounted trunk. all in decent order. and offered at a sensible price.

Chassis No. GYL62. Reg No. BF 4551. £45. 00.

Snippets: The South African Connection
Delivered to Samuel Wilkinson Pilling (1856/1939) JP of Welton Hall. Yorkshire. who was 72 years young when he took delivery of GYL62! S. W. Pilling was a director of Beyer. Peacock & Co Ltd – manufacturers & exporters of locomotives – their articulated locomotives were mainly exported to South & East Africa and Australia with their standard locomotives being used in Sweden. Norway. Buenos Aires. Malta. Isle of Man & Wales! Samuel Pilling was a noted organist & he regularly gave recitals on his Four Manual Concert Organ at Welton Hall. His wife. Leila. was a daughter of Marmaduke Fox. a popular & wealthy woollen merchant; at Marmaduke's funeral (Feb 1892) the local press reported that at least 1. 00 people attended the funeral. Samuel & Leila's son Richard Norman Pilling lived at Kiplin Lodge. Howdendyke which had been inherited by his wife Maud. she was a member of the Anderton family whose fortune was made in the Chemical industry. A book titled “The Annihilation of a place called Howdendyke” was published by J D Porteous which details the Anderton family & their involvement with the community. By 1964 GYL62 was in Transvaal (across the Vaal). Pretoria with A J Messenger and in 1965 he & GYL62 took part in the 1st Shell Rhodesia National Vintage Motor Rally. It is believed that Mr Messenger caught site of GYL62 whilst he was “geographically misplaced” touring Wales. he stopped at a farmhouse to ask directions. saw GYL62 & immediately purchased her!

Also published at eBay.co.uk

Want to buy this car?

Comments and questions to the seller:

Name E-mail
Text
Antispam code: (enter the number)

Other classic cars offered via internet auctions:

Latest arrivals: