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A Buick Riviera parked in front of a middle-class home on the edge of a forest on a bleak autumn's day. The prestigious coupe is finished in Silver Cloud metallic and equipped with a black vinyl roof and whitewall tires. It is registered in the state of Connecticut.
Country of origin: USA
Children playing with silver balloons at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Designed by pop artist Andy Warhol and defying gravity and expectations, these floating metallic ‘pillows’ hover in space allowing the children to become physically enrapt in the installation. The pillows are filled with a mixture of regular air and pure helium. The mixture gives them enough lift to get off the floor, but not so much that they stick to the ceiling. Warhol called these balloons his "Silver Clouds", and they are still one of his most mesmerizing projects to date.
D-CEHM, Cessna 560XL Citation XLS+ (CN 560-6021) owned by Silver Cloud and operated by DAS Private Jets clears Edinburgh Airport's runway 24 via Bravo following a flight from Geneva Airport. Built in 2013 for Stuttgarter Flugdienst GmbH, it moved to Silver Cloud in July 2018. The Queensferry Crossing visible behind.
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The world famous Spirt of Ecstasy flying lady mascot atop a mid-Sixties Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III at the Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, Goodwood Racing Circuit and Aerodrome, Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, England.
The Spirit of Ecstasy was designed by Charles Sykes, a graduate artist of London's Royal College of Arts, and behind it lies the tale of hidden passion between the succinctly-named John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu (the second Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, a pioneer of the automobile movement, and editor of The Car magazine) and his secret love Eleanor Velasco Thornton. Eleanor was Montagu's secretary, and their adoration for each other was to remain concealed, known only by their closest friends, for more than a decade. The reason was Eleanor's impoverished social and economic status, which, in those days in snobbish upper class Britain, was an obstacle to their relationship. And probably still would be, of course. Montagu, succumbing to family pressures, eventually married Lady Cecil Victoria Constance - far less hoi polloi - but the secret love affair continued.
When Montagu commissioned Sykes to sculpt a personal mascot for his Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, Sykes chose Eleanor Thornton as his model. He originally crafted a figurine of her in fluttering robes, pressing a finger against her lips - to symbolise the secrets of their love. This was consequently christened The Whisper.
At this time, Rolls-Royce motorcars did not feature radiator mascots as standard; they simply carried the Rolls-Royce emblem. This was not enough for some customers, who believed that such a prestigious vehicle as a Rolls-Royce motorcar should have its own more outstanding symbol, and by 1910 personal mascots had become the trend. Rolls-Royce was concerned to note that some owners were affixing 'inappropriate' ornaments to their cars. Managing director Claude Johnson was asked to see to the commissioning of something more suitably dignified and graceful.
He also turned to Sykes to produce a mascot to adorn all future Rolls-Royces, with the specifications that it should convey "the spirit of the Rolls-Royce, namely, speed with silence, absence of vibration, the mysterious harnessing of great energy and a beautiful living organism of superb grace..." The brief also included evoking the spirit of mythical beauty, Nike, whose graceful image was admired in The Louvre, but Sykes was unimpressed. He felt that a more feminine representation might be apt.
It was again Miss Thornton whom he had in mind. Sykes chose to modify Montagu's The Whisper into a version similar to today's Spirit of Ecstasy. He called this first model The Spirit of Speed and later dubbed it "A graceful little goddess, the Spirit of Ecstasy, who has selected road travel as her supreme delight and alighted on the prow of a Rolls-Royce motor car to revel in the freshness of the air and the musical sound of her fluttering draperies." As goddesses are occasionally prone to do, of course...
Henry Royce was ill during the commissioning, and when he saw the finished item, he was far from impressed. He did not believe the figurine enhanced the cars, asserting that it impaired the driver's view, and was rarely seen driving one of his company's vehicles adorned with the mascot. Thus, he initially made sure it was officially listed only as an optional extra, but in practice it was fitted on almost all cars after it was introduced in 1911, becoming a standard fitment in the early-Twenties.
And it has been on all Rolls-Royces ever since, outlasting by many years the woman who modelled for it, for Eleanor was drowned at the age of 35, along with hundreds of other passengers in December 1915, when the SS Persia on which she was travelling with Montagu through the Mediterranean to India, was torpedoed without warning by the German U-boat U-38. There was no time to get to a lifeboat and as they made for the decks on the listing ship, 'Montagu had Eleanor in his arms, the next they were hit by a wall of water and she was gone.' He survived and made his way home to read his own obituary in The Times. In a letter to the newspaper magnate Lord Northcliffe, he confessed 'You will know, as a fellow human, what is my grief at the loss of Thorn, who, for 15 years, was all in all to me and who was the most devoted and lovable woman God ever made.' Just prior to the voyage, Eleanor had poignantly written to Lady Cecil - the two women got on well, apparently - 'You have the satisfaction of knowing that he will be well looked after. I do not think for one moment that there will be any trouble in the Med but supposing...well, then the Lord will have an extra chance, for there will be my place in the boat for him, even if he has to be stunned to take it.'
Now I'm wondering what I should have on the bonnet of my old Volvo. Aside from, as recently, a flying deer...
Taken at Goodwood Race Circuit and Aerodrome, Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, England on September 21, 2008.
I've mentioned the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud many times before as the iconic design was derived into many different Bentley types such as the S1 and the Hooper bodied Continental dropheads, as well as mentioning it in pictures of its replacement the Silver Shadow, but finally I find an immaculate example of one of these magnificent machines out on the streets of Belgravia, the last of the Silver Rolls to be built in the conventional and iconic style of long on front, short on back.
Entering production in 1955, the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud was built to replace a collection of earlier models, including the Silver Wraith and the Silver Dawn, whilst also being built alongside the Phantom series. A cross between the Flying Scotsman and a Stately Home, the Silver Cloud was built originally for a market that revolved around hereditary money, Royals, Soldiers, Mine and Factory owners, and other families that had made their money in the great Victorian era of Industry.
But unbeknownst to Rolls Royce, as the 50's were packed away, the world changed abruptly. Money was easier to come by, and the margins that had once separated the class system became blurred and distorted. People of lower class backgrounds found their way up the social ladder by way of music and television, and one of the first things they hankered for was a Rolls Royce, the ultimate symbol of success.
And it's not hard to see why, with a price tag of £5,000 the Cloud was the equivalent cost of 10 Morris Minors or a 7 bedroom house. To own a Silver Cloud in the early 1960's meant you had to be someone very very special.
However, the Silver Cloud's old world design kept it very much in the past. Unlike modern Rollers where the body and chassis are built together, the Cloud was built as a chassis first, and then it was up to the owner to decide who constructed the coachwork, be they Hoopers, H.J. Muliner Park Ward or James Young.
This antiquated system meant that Rolls were losing their market, and thus they had to adapt in order to survive. In 1965 the highly advanced and radically designed Silver Shadow entered production, and a year later the last Silver Cloud rolled off the production line, bringing an end to the era of the classic Rolls.
Today they're a real rarity, the 1970's showed that rust was no respecter of pedigree and many redundant rollers simply whittled away under the rain. But even so, immaculate examples such as this continue to be found.
This was my first instance of sitting in the drivers seat of a Silver Cloud, and it was magnificent. Looking on from the lavish steering wheel placed before me, there was just feet of bonnet that resembled the bow of a mighty ocean going liner, with the beautiful Spirit of Ecstasy forming the bowspirit, cutting through the air like a ship through the sea.
I really should stop being so poetic about these cars... hehe
A series of AI-generated pictures of a classic Rolls-Royce parked in front of a Grand Hotel. In different art styles.
To be continued.
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A view to a Kill
Roger Moore
1985
09/12/2022 - 14/05/2023
Bond in Motion
Original Collection of James Bond Vehicles
Brussels Expo
Brussels - Belgium
February 2023
Coachwork by H.J. Mulliner, Parkward Ltd.
Chassis n° LCSC85B
'The size and grandeur of the car... deceive one about the performance which would do justice to many a car of more sporting pretensions. The finish, both in detail and the broader sense of equipment and trim, is superb.' - Motor magazine on the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III.
Launched in 1962, the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III and its Bentley S3 equivalent employed the 6.2-litre V8 engine introduced on the 'Cloud II/S2 - though with larger carburettors, new distributor and raised compression ratio - and came with a four-speed GM-derived automatic transmission as standard equipment. Most obvious among many changes from the preceding models was the adoption of four-headlamp lighting, the absence of sidelights from the wing tops, and a slightly lower radiator shell. Inside there was improved accommodation with separate front seats and increased room for rear passengers. Notable as the last mainstream Rolls-Royce to employ a separate chassis, the Silver Cloud III proved immensely successful both at home and abroad, remaining in production until the autumn of 1965.
As well as the factory-bodied cars, bespoke creations from James Young and the recently merged firm of H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd (by this time Rolls-Royce-owned) continued to be available on the 'Cloud III chassis for those discerning enthusiasts wealthy enough to afford them. Indeed, as the factory did not offer a convertible or drophead coupé, a coachbuilt car was the only option if one's preference was Rolls-Royce-style fresh air motoring. First introduced in 1958, H J Mulliner's was the most successful of its type, lasting into 1963; more modern 'straight-through wing' designs became the preferred style thereafter. Of the latter, by far the most striking were those bodied in a style originated by Park Ward. This design by Norwegian Vilhelm Koren, with its influential continuous front-to-rear wing line, first appeared, on the Bentley S2 Continental, in 1959 but did not become available on non-Continental models (both Bentley and Rolls-Royce) until after the arrival of the Silver Cloud III and S3 in 1962. These 'Chinese Eye' models - so called because of their slanting headlamp nacelles - constituted the majority of coachbuilt variants completed between 1962 and 1966.
This left-hand drive 'Chinese Eye' Silver Cloud III was delivered new in the USA via Rolls-Royce Incorporated of New York to its first owner, Mr J Kluge of Metre Media Inc, Park Avenue, New York City. Accompanying copy build sheets record the fact that it was built to USA specification and with special features that included a heavy gauge frame, Firestone whitewall tyres, Radiomobile electric aerial, power operated hood, luggage straps, plain Sundym glass, wind-tone horns, electric windows and 'Made in England' name plate. The original colour scheme was Velvet Green with tan leather interior trim, which it still is today.
The Rolls-Royce was first registered in the UK in September 2003 (as 'KYY 373C') and for the next eight years belonged to a titled owner. Since finding a new owner in December 2011, the car has benefited from extensive refurbishment at the hands of various European specialists, and comes with related invoices totalling many thousands of euros (inspection recommended).
The Chantilly Sale 2016
Sold for € 207.000
Estimated : € 160.000 - 220.000
Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille
Château de Chantilly
Chantilly
France - Frankrijk
September 2016
Rolls Royce Silver Cloud 1 (1955-59) Engine 4887cc S6 IOE Production 2231 (plus 121 Silver Cloud 1 LWB)
Registration Number JKM 39 (Maidstone)
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Designed by J. P. Blatchley the Silver Cloud, was a major change from the pre-war models and the highly derivative Silver Dawn. As part of a range rationalisation the Bentley S1 is very similar, apart from its radiator grille.
The chassis was a simple steel box section, welded together and very rigid. Construction retained the traditional split between chassis and body, allowing the facility for specialised body builders though the overwhelmiing majhority came with the standard body by Pressed Steel employing light weight aluminium based alloy for the doors, bonnet and boot.
The engine was a 155 hp / 4000 rpm 4.9 L six-cylinder unit with inlet over exhaust valves: twin SU carburettors were added in September 1957. The standard transmission was a four-speed automatic. Brakes were hydraulic and assisted by the Rolls-Royce mechanical servo with 11 in drums and suspension was independent coils at the front and semi-elliptic springs at the rear. Twin brake master cylinders were incorporated from April 1956.
The Silver Cloud 1 was replaced during 1959 by the Silver Cloud II simular in appearance but updated with a 6230cc V8 OHV engine, power steering and four-speed Hydramatic transmission
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Shot Brooklands New Years Day Gathering, 01.01.2016 - Ref 111-387
The cruise ship Silver Cloud moored next to the WWII light cruiser of the Royal Navy HMS Belfast. 3 exposures, -1+ bracketing, then Photomatix for HDR and tonemapping and finally Photoshop for adjustments!
Exposition "Clouds" Le Roeulx, Hainaut, Belgium.
Merveilleux et magique, branché sur l’infini, le nuage est pour tout être humain la plus fantastique des machines à rêves.
Combinaison de contraires et d’extrêmes, foisonnant, inépuisable, en perpétuelle métamorphose, il est de toute évidence la métaphore même du vivant.
En organisant une exposition sur ce thème dans le cadre prestigieux et historique du château des Princes de Croÿ, au Roeulx, la Fondation Croy-Roeulx propose “Clouds”, événement artistique majeur autour du regard d’artistes modernes et contemporains sur le plus humain des corps célestes. Une version inédite du thème, qui, en écho au génie du lieu – le Château, l’Orangerie et les jardins -, est pensée comme une véritable « horticulture » du nuage.
Une trentaine d’artistes – de Jean Arp à René Magritte, de Man Ray à Jaume Plensa, de Robert Therrien à Michel François… Associant photographies, peintures, vidéos, sculptures, installations, peupleront cette promenade-découverte du Château du Roeulx qui ouvrira exceptionnellement à l’occasion de cet événement.
Wonderful and magical, connected to the infinite, the cloud is for any human being the most fantastic dream machines.
Combination of opposites and extremes, teeming inexhaustible, in perpetual metamorphosis, it is obviously the same metaphor of the living.
By organizing an exhibition on this theme in the prestigious and historical part of the castle of the Princes of Croÿ at Roeulx, Croy-Roeulx Foundation offers "Clouds", a major artistic event around the look of modern and contemporary artists on the most human of celestial bodies. A new version of the theme, which, echoing the spirit of the place - the castle, the Orangerie and gardens - is conceived as a real "Horticulture" of the cloud.
Thirty artists - Jean Arp to René Magritte, Man Ray to Jaume Plensa, Robert Therrien Michel François ... Combining photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures, installations, populate this walk-discovery of the castle will open exceptionally Roeulx on the occasion of this event.
Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra were both once proud owners of the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud. Produced from 1955-1966, this vehicle defined Rolls Royce for a decade as more than 2000 of them drove out of the factory. This model - seen in Munich's BMW Museum - is the Silver Cloud III which rounded out the Silver Cloud collection from 1963-1966.
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Chassis n° L.CSC.33C
Coachwork by H.J. Mulliner - Park Ward
Bonhams
Les Grandes Marques du Monde à Paris
The Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2023
Estimated : € 150.000 - 250.000
Sold for € 184.000
"The size and grandeur of the car... deceive one about the performance which would do justice to many a car of more sporting pretensions. The finish, both in detail and the broader sense of equipment and trim, is superb." - Motor magazine on the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III.
Launched in 1962, the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III and its Bentley S3 equivalent employed the 6.2-litre V8 engine introduced on the 'Cloud II/S2 - though with larger carburettors, new distributor and raised compression ratio - and came with a four-speed GM-derived automatic transmission as standard equipment. Most obvious among many changes from the preceding models was the adoption of four-headlamp lighting, the absence of sidelights from the wing tops, and a slightly lower radiator shell. Inside there was improved accommodation with separate front seats and increased room for rear passengers. Notable as the last mainstream Rolls-Royce to employ a separate chassis, the Silver Cloud III proved immensely successful both at home and abroad, remaining in production until the autumn of 1965.
As well as the factory-bodied cars, bespoke creations from James Young and the recently merged firm of H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd (by this time Rolls-Royce-owned) continued to be available on the 'Cloud III chassis for those discerning enthusiasts wealthy enough to afford them. Indeed, as the factory did not offer a convertible or drophead coupé, a coachbuilt car was the only option if one's preference was Rolls-Royce-style fresh air motoring. First introduced in 1958, H J Mulliner's drophead was the most successful of its type, lasting into 1965.
Dating from the final year of production, 'L.CSC.33C' is one of the very last 42 coachbuilt cars on the Silver Cloud III chassis; indeed, by the time the guarantee was issued on 21st February 1966, the successor Silver Shadow model had already been shown to the public (at Earls Court in 1965).
Intended for use in the USA, this original left-hand drive car was ordered with numerous special features including Jetstar air conditioning, windtone horns, electric aerial, driver's outside mirror, additional loudspeaker, additional (driver's) headrest, Sundym glass throughout, electric windows, and the heavy gauge frame. The original colour scheme was Shell Grey with scarlet leather interior and black hood. The Silver Cloud was shipped to Rolls-Royce Inc in New York and retailed by Peter Zage & Co Ltd to their customer Dr W C Casey, MD, at that time living on Wiltshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, nothing else is known of its history in the USA.
Around 2002 the Rolls-Royce belonged to a Mr Reid Davis, who kept the car at Lake Oswego in Oregon. McDonald Vintage Restorations in Canby, Oregon restored the car in 2002-2003 (restoration invoices available). A replacement engine ('S1608') was installed by Tony Handler Inc at the same time.
In 2004 the Silver Cloud was offered for sale at an auction in France from where it was sold to Ukraine. Residing in Ukraine ever since, the car has scarcely been used since its acquisition in 2004, covering only some 500 kilometres in the course of nearly 20 years. Sold because of the ongoing war in Ukraine - and extremely lucky to be a survivor after the battle for Kyiv - this end-of-an-era coachbuilt Rolls-Royce is offered with copies of the factory build sheets and Ukrainian registration documents.
In addition to purchasing the conventional Silver Cloud III, a selection of differing body types could be built to order by way of coachbuilders as this was the last Rolls Royce car for the mass-market to be produced with a separate chassis. One of the most notable ones was by Mulliner Park Ward of London, who gave us this very interesting variant known (back in the days before racial sensitivities) as the 'Chinese Eye' design, with slanted headlights to make it look a bit more lairy. To widen production in a diminishing market, this adaptation was made available for the Bentley S3 Continental as well as for the Silver Cloud III so, of the 328 coach-built Silver Cloud III, about 100 were of this style.
At the special request of American customer William Dick Jr. a 2-door Salon (Chinese Eyes) was equipped with the Bentley S2 Continental styling headlamps. Vilhelm Koren sketched the design and only one has been made!
Concours d'Élégance 2018
Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
Taken at Boulder by ღ Honey Silvercloud ღ (hony.aboma)
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Production : 1962 - 1965
6.230 cc
V8
225 HP
Vmax : 188 km/h
Exposition : So British !
Cars & Lifestyle
13/12/2019 - 26/01/2020
Autoworld
Brussels - Belgium
December 2019
In addition to purchasing the conventional Silver Cloud III, a selection of differing body types could be built to order by way of coachbuilders as this was the last Rolls Royce car for the mass-market to be produced with a separate chassis. One of the most notable ones was by Mulliner Park Ward of London, who gave us this very interesting variant known (back in the days before racial sensitivities) as the 'Chinese Eye' design, with slanted headlights to make it look a bit more lairy. To widen production in a diminishing market, this adaptation was made available for the Bentley S3 Continental as well as for the Silver Cloud III so, of the 328 coach-built Silver Cloud III, about 100 were of this style.
As far as I can tell, it could be an earlier variant but the dual tone taillights suggest a sixties Silver Cloud III to me. What does the spotter's guide say?
I do love Rollers and Bentleys sitting on plain steel wheels; if I had the money that's what I would sport. Can't decide on the whitewalls.
The Silver Cloud at anchor off the north shore of Principe. Just one passenger on the beach (plus me).
Il a fallu plusieurs années de travail à son propriétaire pour remettre à neuf cette voiture, démontée et remontée pièce par pièce et lui redonner son éclat d'origine, la "Silver Cloud" ayant été la plus belle de toutes les voitures d'usine.
Celle-ci est équipée du moteur V8 de 6,2l de cylindrée dont Rolls Royce ne donnait pas la puissance, considérée comme suffisante… Une puissance qui permettait à la voiture d'atteindre 183 km/h au début des années soixante, avec un poids de 2110kg, et une longueur de 5,38m.