1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Roi des Belges

This 1912 Rolls-Royce 40/50 HP Silver Ghost originally wore a landaulette body of apparently local manufacture. It is believed to have been originally owned by James N. Niall of both London and Melbourne, Australia. It was later exported to Australia and owned by subsequent Australian owners well into the 1920s. N. Faulkiner of Melbourne acquired it in 1916, F. Knight of Toorak, Victoria in 1922, and then J. Perry. Around 1958, it was acquired by Maurice R. Markoff who commissioned a new tourer body for the car.

Around 1965, the car was sold to James Leake of Muskogee, Oklahoma who kept it for over two decades, before it was offered in one of his Oklahoma sales in November 1987. It came into the care of new ownership and migrated to Denmark. Another individual from Denmark acquired it in 1989 and commissioned a new duplicate body of the Barker Roi des Belges coachwork. The work was created by the British coachbuilding shop of Wilkinson. It wears a deep red livery with burgundy striping and there is brass trim that includes the Lucas Autolite headlamps and King of the Road side and tail lamps.

By Daniel Vaughan | Nov 2022