Where and when did your interest in Rolls-Royce, and particularly the 40/50hp, begin?
‘My great uncle was a chauffeur for the Mackintosh family and when I was growing up, he would visit my home town of Halifax, always in a new Bentley. Sometimes he would give me a lift to school in the car and that sparked my interest in them. My wife and I bought a Silver Cloud III in the 1980s then a Silver Shadow II and in 1996 I bought a 1938 Wraith, in scrapyard condition. In 1994 I saw a new book, by Fasal and Goodman. I was blown away by the early photographs in that book, many by coachbuilders and many of Silver Ghosts in their first ownership. That caught my interest in the Silver Ghost, or more correctly the 40/50hp. I started looking at Silver Ghosts at, because that book only covered cars built up to WW1, and the majority were built after 1919.’
