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1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Peel of Kingston [28WR]

1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I [28WR] in Father Brown, TV Series, 1974 Ep. 3

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1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Peel of Kingston [28WR]

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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AleX_DJ ◊ 2019-01-28 15:54
dsl ◊ 2019-01-28 16:15	GU 2795 ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 01 January 1993 MOT No results returned Vehicle make: ROLLS ROYCE Date of first registration: March 1929 Cylinder capacity (cc): 7668 cc Fuel type: PETROL Export marker: Yes Vehicle status: Not taxed Vehicle colour: GREY Found this picture online with no direct explanation what it means for GU 2795 (although the url contains GU 2795 and it looks very similar). Presumably somewhere within this website but it stayed out of reach.
dsl ◊ 2019-01-28 16:45	It may be [28WR] described as a 1926 Phantom I with "Peel of Kingston" in the batch of Bilbao-based RRs on page 79 of this RREC Bulletin. Googling [28WR] led to this picture (labelled 1927) in "la plus importante collection de Rolls-Royce du monde, en pays Basque Espagnol, près de Bilbao.". So seems fairly definite GU 2795 is now in a Spanish museum with a wedding-car-white repaint. Which is all a bit sad really.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2019-01-28 17:59	dsl wrote Which is all a bit sad really. Yes, but it appears that you have nailed it. You have more patience than I to wade through that stuff.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2019-01-28 18:43	I have looked for Peel of Kingston on the inter web and come up with Peel Coachworks who built the Gooda Special R-type Bentley, but do not appear to have been in business at the time of the subject car. They are a new one on me, but then again I ain’t all knowing even allowing for the years I have spent reading car books and such.
dsl ◊ 2019-01-28 19:16	johnfromstaffs wrote Peel Coachworks who built the Gooda Special R-type Bentley, but do not appear to have been in business at the time of the subject car. This may be what is listed in my book as Robert Peel Sheet Metal Works (and later Peel Engineering) in Surbiton, Surrey. Active only after WW2 and run by Paul Faulkner, "numerous one-off bodies on chassis such as Alvis, Bentley, Bugatti, Frazer-Nash (including the 1957 Le Mans prototype), Jaguar (an XK 150 estate, Lagonda and Rolls-Royce.", closed 1997. Nothing for Peel of Kingston or anything else similar pre-WW2,
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2019-01-28 19:39	As we know so little about this R-R it could be possible that it was rebodied by this firm after the war. Weymann system flexible bodies from the twenties had reached their Waterloo by the fifties and many saloons or limousines became tourers.

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