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1957 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith James Young Touring Limousine LFLW38

Sale price: £75,000.00 make an offer

Car location: Bethesda, United Kingdom

Sale type: Fixed price listing

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1957 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith James Young Touring Limousine LFLW38 for sale

Current customer rating: current rating for this car(2.15) based on 524 votes
An absolutely lovely example of a late Silver Wraith. and as such has the desirable 4. 9 litre engine and power steering. which very few were fitted with. The car has recently had a fabulous quality total re-spray in metallic burgundy. and a high standard re-upholstery job in deep red. with re-finished woodwork. beautiful new carpets & headlining. etc. and the whole car looks magnificent! Excellent mechanically too. with a lovely. willing engine. driving very nicely. all in all making this a car to be proud of.

Chassis No. FLW38. Reg No. VWS 66. £75. 00.

Snippets: Marriage & Business Connection:

The first owner was Colonel Philip Henry Lloyd (1905/79) (known as Pen) of Stone House. Blaston - an extremely busy gentleman – he farmed 1. 00 acres. bred Springer Spaniels. High Sheriff of Leicester (1957) & sat on the board of over 25 businesses! These included Ironstone Royalty O. A. (family firm). . British Tar Products Ltd. Breedon & Cloud Hill Lime Works Ltd (family firm). The Inter-Departmental Committee on Coroners & Death Certification to name some of them! Col Pen Lloyd was the son of Samuel Janson Lloyd JP who made the family fortune in quarries. steel works & mines. Samuel Lloyd & his wife Jane had 13 children – with the 1st child being born in 1897 & the last in 1922 – an age gap of 25 years! In February 1943 Colonel P. H. Lloyd married Monica Murray-Philipson (the widow of Hylton Ralph Murray-Philips who died in 1934 & previous owner of Stobo Castle in Peebles). In 1931 Hylton Murray-Philips had purchased a Rolls-Royce 20/25 Chassis GNS75 which is currently with the Real Car Co! Colonel Lloyd & Hylton Murray-Philipson were also connected via business as they were both Company Directors of Manvers Main Collieries Ltd – Murray-Philipson in 1923/33 & Lloyd in 1940/47.

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Comments and questions to the seller:

from Roy gillrie, dated 15 february 2020
Interested in your 57 RR wraith. How many of the James young wraiths were produced in 1957?
Can you email better pictures and more history.?

from Jose Fanjul , dated 15 july 2015
i am a pRivate collector , and have one already , buT looking for another to keep possibly in the UK . Please contact me for a possible purchase .

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