1962 Rolls-Royce Phantom V Sedanca de Ville

As in the classic era, despite the fact that the era was decades in the past, Rolls-Royce only supplied the Phantom V chassis to independent coachbuilders to be bodied to customer orders. As custom coachwork demand declined in the mid-1950s only four specialists remained. The most prominent were James Young and H.J. Mulliner, owned by Rolls-Royce. The Rolls-Royce of the 1950s and early 1960s were the only cars that spanned the handmade and modern eras.

This Sedanca de Ville's most spectacular feature is its sedanca sliding roof, which at the turn and pull of a handle neatly slides back and stows under the rear part of the roof, an engineering marvel perfected by James Young. Only nine Phantom V limousines were fitted with such as sedanca sliding roof. The first owner is listed as Jack Taubman, however it is believed that the car was used by Victor Barclay, the managing director of the London Rolls-Royce dealer, for his personal use before the car was sold privately.