_«The engine originally american»_ ? _«400 bhp»_ ? Really? I'm Italian and I know better! Is this BBC's famous quality? The engine was an original English design only based on a V8 american architecture. And one would be lucky to measure 230bhp in the II & III series, much less in the 6 cylinder in line of the I series that he's presenting. Mammamia! This presenter leaves a lot to be desired!
BEAUTIFUL Rolls Royce Phantom V, perfect music (at the start, at least), but WHY did the driver almost SPIN OUT at the beginning, in my view he proceeded around the corner WAY TOO QUICKLY! Well, that's my view for what ever it's worth. Still, thank you for sharing this video.
The plural of Rolls-Royce should be Rolls-Royce cars or Rolls-Royce motorcars, never Rolls-Royces. Royce is a proper noun, making it plural makes multiple people, not multiple cars. It is Campbell soups, not Campbells soup. Given that you are holding yourself out as rollsroyceman - you should probably not make this mistake.
They didn’t make their transmission for any post war cars. They used GM tank transmissions until after mid sixties with no park. Then the GM transmission until BMW purchased from Vickers. Then still GM and ZF for several years, an after BM took over completely in 2003, all were ZF transmissions. I don’t know what transmissions were used prior to the Silver Dawn. Perhaps RR built their own. This video is a bit false.
+e ennis : All the pre-war Rolls-Royces and Bentley cars were fitted only with manual gearboxes which were designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce. The post-war cars were the Silver Wraith which was sold only as a chassis (to be bodied by external coachbuilders) ... also the Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn, the Mark VI Bentley and the Bentley R-Type which from 1946 were originally sold only with a manual gearbox but from 1952 were all offered with the optional choice of the GM automatic transmissions. The GM transmissions were used under a licensing agreement with General Motors where the individual parts were purchased from GM but the transmissions were actually assembled with Rolls-Royce's own modifications to some of the components carried out in the Rolls-Royce factory ... so the GM transmissions were actually assembled by Rolls-Royce. The Silver Cloud introduced in 1955 was the first model to be fitted only with an automatic transmission ... no manual gearbox option. The last Rolls-Royces and Bentleys to be offered with a choice of manual or automatic transmission were the Bentley R-Type and the RR Silver Dawn. The early GM transmissions did have a 'Park' position but no 'P' marked on the selector quadrant. After switching off the ignition you put the lever into 'R' (for reverse) and the parking-pawl in the transmission activates to lock the drive-train.
@@nickeldridge9454 Your comment is mostly correct, apart from the last part. There were a few Bentley S series cars which were ordered with manual gearboxes.
@@elliottanderson2453 Yes ... there were apparently just a handful built with manual gearboxes. These were only offered on six-cylinder S -type Continental models. Nobody seems to have an accurate figure for how many were built. When I was much younger I worked in the trade at various Rolls-Royce & Bentley specialists ... I've seen dozens of S1 Continentals but never encountered a manual version. I presume they would have used the same manual unit that was offered on the R-Types and Silver Dawns. Have you ever seen one ?
@@nickeldridge9454 I do actually have a note of all the cars in the Silver Cloud/S era that left the factory with manual gearboxes. There weren't many though. There was 1 Silver Cloud standard steel saloon and 1 Bentley S standard steel saloon, as well as a number of Bentley S continental chassis fitted as such. Around 15 if I remember correctly.
