I am delighted that this Butler model Phantom has been given some coverage in this video. It has always just been glossed over in previous videos I've seen.
I have an old photo of my grandfather posing next to DUV 553. It then featured a badge on the bumper with 5 stars, and a small flag on the bonnet. I imagine Monty was probably visiting Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, when the photo was taken. It is great to see the car looking so great still.
I had the dubious pleasure of being embroiled in that strike, as a Coachmaker for MPW at that time. A strike created by Management so that the roof on the main plant could be repaired minus the workforce. As soon as the roof was completed the stike quickly came to an end. If I recall correctly it went on for 16 weeks. Not fun.
The Spanish Government ordered two limousines and one open all weather tourer. As far as I know, they are still in use. They were armoured and very heavy.
En España hay 4 unidades de las 17 que existen en el mundo , tres pertenecen a patrimonio y la cuarta está en la colección/museo de Don Miguel de la Vía en el País Vasco
felicito esta pagina ono se como llamarla perdon por mi ignorancia pero desde mi umilde opiñon inglaterra reino unido ogran bretaña como llamarlo debe mostrar mas y opinar mas de todo lo que pasa en el mundo son los mejores tienen que ayudarnos atodo el mundo lo dice mi esposo marcelo miguens
Fuck Lizzy 2-strokes to the moon and back. So, little Mrs Battenburg Saxe-Coburg Windsor bought a car-car, did she? At the time, no other poor bastard could even buy a Bradford van but she spent as much as would buy for or five houses on a bloody Roller just so's she and her Greek giggolo could look good when they went out in their fancy dress.
El Rolls-Royce que está en la entrada del hotel Dome es un Silver Wraith. Las unidades que hay en España Del Phantom IV, una está en en Bilbao en la colección-Museo de Miguel de la Vía que es de la que habla que tenía un equipamiento especial y es de color dorado, no es la verde que sale en las imágenes, y las otras unidades pertenecen al ejército de tierra y patrimonio. Un saludo.
Como comentan arriba , en España hay 4 de las 17 unidades que existen en el mundo , tres pertenecen a patrimonio , y la cuarta está en la colección/museo de Don Miguel de la Via en el Pais Vasco
Keith Newton He certainly was. He arranged alterations that meant that he or the then Princess Elizabeth could drive it, rather than a chauffeur. In 1952 it was made into a State Car, the first Rolls Royce to be designated as such.
