1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith LWB Touring Limo Mulliner pictures and wallpaper

1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith LWB Touring Limo Mulliner news, pictures, and information

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Build Num: Style: 356

This 1959 Rolls-Royce Long Wheel Base (LWB) Silver Wraith has coachwork by H. J. Mulliner, (Style 356) Touring Limo. This late example was equipped with factory air conditioning. It has low mileage and is largely in original condition, except for the interior hides that were replaced by Vantage Motorworks.

The car is powered by a water-cooled, F-head (inlet-over-exhaust), 6-cylinder, 4,877 cc (4.88 liter) engine developing 135 horsepower. This 4,620 pound car has a top speed of 80 mph.

The present owner purchased the car from Vantage Motorworks in 1996 with only 18,000 original miles. It has seen only limited use since.

The Silver Wraith, launched in 1947, was an evolution of the pre-war Wraith and was offered in the traditional chassis form ready for the fitting of Bespoke coachwork. The 4,257cc overhead-inlet, side-exhaust engine developed before the war was used, as well as a modified coil and wishbone independent front suspension. Hydraulic brakes were used for the first time on a Rolls-Royce with hydraulic brakes.

The Silver Wraith was constantly refined during its production. The engine was replaced with the 'big bore' 4,566cc in 1951 and automatic transmission was offered as an option in 1952.

Once again the press raved about the car. 'All the world knows that Rolls-Royce carry on an unremitting search for engineering perfection in everything they undertake. The qualities which made their aircraft engines famous, and their cars the finest procurable, are the result of hard work scientifically conducted, and of a painstaking attention to detail from the large to the most minute. And now a new range of cars is about to appear it is believed that the new cars are the best that Rolls-Royce have ever built.'

The Silver Wraith was described like this: 'In common with all Rolls-Royce cars, the Silver Wraith has an indefinable something about it, a delicacy of behaviour, which escapes definition in written words. it is a car for the connoisseur in cars'.

Source - Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

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