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Roger Moore
1985
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Brussels Expo
Brussels - Belgium
February 2023
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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Rolls Royce Silver Cloud III (1963-66) Engine 6230cc V8 OHV Production 2297 (2044 SWB, 253 LWB)
Registration Number 1707 R (Derbyshire)
ROLLS ROYCE SET
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The Silver Cloud III arrived in 1963. External dimensions were slightly tweaked, the interior remodelled, and the weight reduced by a little over 100 kg
The engine was improved with the addition of 2 inch SU Carburettors, replacing the 1.75 inch units of the Silver Cloud and compression ratio was increased. The transmission was a GM Hydramatic which Rolls-Royce used under licence.
The Silver Cloud III is distinguished by its quad headlamp being the main differance from the Series II.
The headlights grouped in a four-headlamp layout subsequently continued in the later Silver Shadow. Other external changes included a slightly increased slope of the bonnet, o correspond with a 1 1⁄2 inches reduction to the radiator grille.
Many thanks for a fantabulous
43,882,999 views (adjusted and readjusted during FLICKR re-engineering, reduced by around 650,000)
Shot at the Silverstone Classic 14-15 July 2015- Ref 109-722
The Rolls-Royce is very popular for use at important events in life. White ones are more suitable for marriages...
But even Rolls-Royces has to have some maintenance now and then...
The Silver Cloud series was designed by J.P. Blatchley.
The 1955-1965 Bentley S-series was very much alike.
The Silver Cloud was followed up by the 1965-80 Silver Shadow.
4887 cc 6 cylinder engine.
2050 kg.
Production Silver Cloud: 4/1955-3/1966.
Production Silver Cloud I: 4/1955-1958.
Original first reg. number: June 30, 1959 (according to Dutch RDW).
New Dutch reg. number: Dec. 31, 1976.
Same owner since Febr. 1991.
Utrecht, Schaverijstraat, July 3, 2018.
© 2018 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
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
Now this is my idea of a car!
Why have a supercar you can barely get into and hardly enjoy, when you can have all the comforts of home in the car with you?
One of the last versions of the magnificent Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, this final incarnation, the Silver Cloud III, seeing the design through to 1966. By this time the Silver Shadow was starting to make its presence known on the road as one of the most radical Rolls Royces ever, but the Silver Cloud continued to keep the old world alive.
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.
This particular version, the Cloud III, was the first noticeable facelift of the model, with the inclusion of new four light clusters that would eventually be carried over onto the Shadow, a reduction in weight by 220lbs and the fitting of 2-inch SU carburettors in place of the 1¾ inch units used on the Series II Silver Cloud. Although Rolls Royce always kept the power output of their engines a secret, they did disclose that it provided and improvement of 'perhaps 7%'.
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, and this one was certainly a real treat for me and the many tourists who stopped to admire the lines of yesteryear.
I saw this yesterday at the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais coming back from a business trip to The Hague (Den Haag). I can never resist such a beautiful car!!! I just wish I had one ;-) According to Ant it is a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III. Thanks Ant
The background image: Many thanks to rosey146 for allowing me permission to use her excellent picture of the famous and beautiful Chatsworth House of Derbyshire and Peak District as the background for this picture of an exquisite 1960 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud.
rosey 146’s original picture of the Chatsworth House can be viewed here.
About to Chatsworth House:
Building of Chatsworth house was begun in 1552 by Bess of Hardwick and her second husband Sir William Cavendish. Their second son, William, was created Earl of Devonshire in 1618. The 4th Earl who was created 1st Duke of Devonshire in 1694 after assisting William of Orange to claim the British throne, began to make improvements at Chatsworth. Eventually he completely remodelled the house and added formal gardens and the famous cascade. Most of the work was completed before he died in 1707. Chatsworth park was landscaped by Capability Brown who reshaped the formal garden into the more natural one you see today. The 6th Duke engaged Joseph Paxton as the head gardener, resulting in the enrichment of the gardens and the creation of the Emperor Fountain as well as the now demolished Great Conservatory. The house and gardens have remained little changed since the 6th Dukes time.
High quality prints of this artwork are available
1955 or 2015? There's very little to tell the difference, except for the fact that its a 1959 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud out front, the chariot of choice for the super rich of a bygone age.
I'm not someone who regularly uploads pictures I took eons ago, but these were some pics I took when I visited Beaulieu Motor Museum and had a turn in the James Bond exhibit.
In my time I've taken many pictures of some lavish Rolls Royce machines, be they Clouds, Shadows, Spirits or Seraphs, but these two hold a particular point of interest for their appearances, although somewhat minor, in two James Bond movies, and both of them ended up falling in the water!
On the left, what looks like a Roller is in fact a Bentley. Although Cubby Broccoli, the producer of 17 James Bond movies, did in fact himself own a 1962 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, the car that appeared in 1985's A View to a Kill was not his, but a converted 1958 Bentley S1. The Bentley-cum-Roller was driven by James Bond and his chauffeur played by the late Patrick Macnee to infiltrate the estate of Max Zorin, the Bond villain for the evening. After being discovered, Macnee is killed and Bond is locked inside as the car is pushed into a lake, using the air from the tyres to survive underwater. As it turns out, someone actually fished this car out of the lake and then was driven for another 7 years before being donated to the museum in 1992!
On the right, and sporting a somewhat less important role is this 1978 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II, which appeared in 1999's The World is not Enough. This car was driven by Russian Mafia Boss Valentin Zukovsky, played by Robbie Coltrane, as he uses it to visit his caviar factory in the Caspian Sea. During an exciting fight against Helicopters armed with Chainsaws, Zukovsky attempts to escape in his Rolls, only to have the gangway behind him sawn in half and his car falling into the sea. Again, apparently someone decided to dredge this thing up from the bottom of the drink and contribute it to the museum!
Must have been hell trying to ring all the water out of them!
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
Hagley Museum Car Show featuring "Rolling Elegance: Luxury Automobiles," Wilmington, DE, September 15, 2019.
AE-43-92 is a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud-III, first registered on 2 september 1963, in the Netherlands on 1 march 1999. © Bert Visser
Further information given in comment below:
The hulk to the right of the James Craig is probably the Aldebaran, originally also a barque, built in 1869. I believe this would have been taken in 1927 as this appears to be the only time James Craig was towed to Hobart to discharge coal from the Catamaran Coal Co at Recherche Bay.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud had just been introduced.
Back in the days when Rolls-Royce cars were British, not German.
A series of AI-generated pictures of a Rolls-Royce with an unusual paint job in front of a Grand Hotel.
To be continued.
Pictures made with Midjourney.
I'm always happy to accept invites to groups as long as I can see their content. Should I see "this group is not available to you", my photos won't be made available to that group. Thanks for your understanding.
Now this is my idea of a car!
Why have a supercar you can barely get into and hardly enjoy, when you can have all the comforts of home in the car with you?
One of the last versions of the magnificent Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, this final incarnation, the Silver Cloud III, seeing the design through to 1966. By this time the Silver Shadow was starting to make its presence known on the road as one of the most radical Rolls Royces ever, but the Silver Cloud continued to keep the old world alive.
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.
This particular version, the Cloud III, was the first noticeable facelift of the model, with the inclusion of new four light clusters that would eventually be carried over onto the Shadow, a reduction in weight by 220lbs and the fitting of 2-inch SU carburettors in place of the 1¾ inch units used on the Series II Silver Cloud. Although Rolls Royce always kept the power output of their engines a secret, they did disclose that it provided and improvement of 'perhaps 7%'.
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, and this one was certainly a real treat for me and the many tourists who stopped to admire the lines of yesteryear.
Neoplan Tourliner 1 of 2 now running on Leger work this 1 is owned by Llew Jones the other is owned by Silvercloud.
The example presented was offered in 1956 to LL.AA.SS. by the traders of the Principality, as a wedding gift. This car remained in service at the Palace for a long time for official ceremonies.
4.900 cc
6 in-line
155 ch @ 4.000 rpm
Vmax : 170 km/h
2.100 kg
La Collection de Voitures de S.A.S. le Prince de Monaco
54 route de la Piscine
Port Hercule
Monaco
July 2022