Rolls-Royce Phantom IV
- 5.7 L I8 (first 15 vehicles)
- 6.5 L I8 (final 3 vehicles)
(4-speed automatic gearbox standard from 1954)
(Data corresponding to the first P. IV varies depending on each unit and/or type of coachwork)
The Rolls-Royce Phantom IV is a British automobile produced by Rolls-Royce.[1] Only eighteen were made between 1950 and 1956, sold only to buyers whom Rolls-Royce considered worthy of the distinction: the British royal family and heads of state. Sixteen are known to still exist in museums as well as in public and private collections.
Characteristics
Rolls-Royce broke with their earlier decision to cease production of the series of "big" Rolls-Royce Phantoms after the end of World War II.[2] The Phantom IV chassis differed from those of the shorter, production post-War models, the Silver Wraith and the Bentley Mark VI; apart from a larger size and an engine with increased capacity and power, they have an additional cross-member at the centre of the cruciform bracing and 10-stud road wheel mountings.[3]
The engine was a derivative of the 8-cylinder rationalized B range of petrol engines (formed by four, six and straight eight). Specifically it was a refined version of a B80, the last three of a B81, both used in military and commercial vehicles.[4] The IV is the only Rolls-Royce motorcar to be fitted with a straight-8 engine, which was powerful but could also run long distances at a very low speed, an important feature for ceremonial and parade cars.
All examples of this exclusive series were bodied by independent coachbuilders,[5] and most of their bonnets surmounted by the kneeling version of the Spirit of Ecstasy, which had been unveiled in 1934 and used in various other models.
History
In July 1938, Rolls-Royce had to publish in the motoring press an announcement denying that the Phantom III fabrication would be interrupted. The following was published on 19 July 1938 in the British magazine The Motor:
The company wish to deny the rumour that the Phantom III is to be discontinued and replaced with another model having an 8-cylinder or other engine.[6]
However, a project had been initiated in 1937 to rein in the manufacturing costs of the Rolls-Royce and Bentley (acquired by Rolls-Royce in 1931) motor car chassis. This involved the development of a Rationalized Range of cars that shared as many common components of the chassis as possible.[7] As implementation of this rationalization plan, several prototypes were made. One of these, chassis 30-G-VII, was fitted with a large Park Ward seven-seater limousine body and was called Silver Wraith 80, then Silver Phantom, though it soon became known as Big Bertha.[8] This was the genesis of the Phantom IV.[7]
Likewise, in 1939 and before the starting of hostilities, another straight-eight powered experimental automobile tested during and after World War II was a special Bentley Mark V, chassis 11-B-V,[9] fitted with a bored-out 6.3 litre eight-cylinder engine.[10] Although the official Experimental Department name for this car was Comet,[11] its scorching performance earned it the fond epithet Scalded Cat.[12] This unit in particular would later play a key role in the decision of creating the Phantom IV.[12] Indeed, the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh heard about the Bentley nicknamed Scalded Cat in 1948 and asked if he might test it out. He enjoyed this experimental car immensely and drove it for considerable distances. When he returned it, he apparently murmured about how nice it would be to have a car with performance in the Royal Mews.
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On 15 November 1948,[12] not long after Prince Philip had driven the aforementioned automobile, an order came through for a Rolls-Royce motor car for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. They placed the order through The Car Mart, Ltd., RR official retailers in London.[13] Such a vehicle would have to meet their official needs, which meant it must be a limousine. It would also have to have good performance, since the Prince wished to drive it himself. The car would be the first Rolls-Royce in the stables.[14] It was originally planned to be the only Phantom IV, a strictly one-off piece.[15]
Rolls-Royce, aware that Daimler had held the royal warrant to provide motor cars since 1900, was very keen to ensure that the car was the best there had ever been, and a great deal of hand work was lavished on the construction of the chassis. The board members had earlier considered making a replacement for the pre-war Phantom III, but they were wary that such a large and expensive car might not have a market in the weak post-war economy.
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Design and production of the first chassis of the new model was not at the Crewe factory, but at the experimental Clan Foundry at Belper,[16][17] which had been the home of the motor car branch during the Second World War.[2][18] The Experimental Department still continued there until the closure of Clan Foundry in 1950, when it was finally transferred to Crewe. It was also in the Experimental Department workshop at the Crewe factory where the remaining seventeen chassis were made. The very small numbers of the Phantom IV meant that building them with the other models would have been disruptive to the latters' production.[19]
The chassis 4AF2 was built under the code-name Nabha[20] and when completed was dispatched to Mulliner on 20 July 1949 for erection of the body.[21] Mulliner had previously submitted their design for review and approval by the Duke of Edinburgh, and the coachbuilder’s proposal drawing was accepted.[17] Prince Philip visited the workshops more than once while it was being built. The body took almost a year to build and the car was finally delivered to The Car Mart on 6 July 1950, after some 230 miles of testing by Rolls-Royce at the Motor Industry Research Association facilities and on the road.[17] Its delivery was accompanied by a public announcement stating the Phantom IV had been "designed to the special order of Their Royal Highnesses, the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh".
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As the car was privately owned when delivered to the couple, it was painted Valentine green (deep green with a slight blue secondary hue) with red belt-line striping. The limousine became an official state car of the United Kingdom upon Princess Elizabeth's accession to the throne in 1952; as such, it was repainted in the sovereign's colour scheme of royal claret and black.[18][20]
This car remains in the Royal Mews and is still used occasionally for royal and state events. For example, it was used at the wedding of William, Prince of Wales and Catherine Middleton in 2011 to carry Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, from Clarence House to Westminster Abbey. In 2018, it brought Meghan Markle to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, for her wedding to Prince Harry. In 2022, it transported the new king, Charles III, and Queen Camilla from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall and RAF Northolt.[22]
The Spanish order
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On 18 October 1948, Crewe received an order from the Government of Spain for three armoured cars for the use of Generalissimo Francisco Franco: two with limousine bodies and an open all-weather body; this one intended to replace a 1938 Hispano-Suiza J12 with Carrosserie Vanvooren body. While the Phantom IV model was not specified in the order, or even known outside the company at that time, it was decided that the best way to cope with the huge additional weight would be to build the three cars as Phantom IVs,[23] rather than over-burden the Silver Wraith chassis. Especially since the Foreign Office suggested that Crewe could not turn down the order.[15]
The passengers were to be immune from a Mauser bullet fired at ten paces, so W. A. Robotham recommended a body from Mulliner's of Chiswick, which "had many satisfied customers among the more unpopular rulers of the world". A mission to Mulliner's of Army officers required glass one and three quarters of an inch thick and armour plate. The armour plate was to be almost half an inch thick, and the large floor area required would make the completed weight of the cars over three and a half tons, which would overstress the wheels and gearbox on Spain's main roads. Some years later when holidaying there, Robotham inspected the cars; the brigadier in charge of the garage praised them and said they were used frequently. The speedometers only showed less than 2,000 km but "they were taken by train and only driven for the actual inspections and processions".[24]
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Without intending it, the Government of Spain's triple order in October 1948, along with the later Princess Elizabeth and Duke's commission in November that year, helped to give a decisive impulse to the existence of this model, as suggested by Martin Bennett in his book Rolls-Royce & Bentley: The Crewe Years and the number 9 September 1990 of the British magazine Classic Cars.[25] All these three historical vehicles have always been property of the Spanish Army and are still in ceremonial use for the Spanish royal family and for heads of state on official visit in Spain, using one of the two limousines.
The "Royalty and Heads of State only" policy
It is not known exactly when the "Royalty and Heads of State only" policy was decided, nor indeed whether in fact there was such an explicit company policy. It is known though, that a boardroom decision was reached that it would be impractical to attempt to build more than three Phantom IVs per year.[26] It is also clear that no private customer other than royalty and heads of state ever took delivery of a Phantom IV. Nevertheless, a considerable number of coachbuilder's drawings exist of proposed Phantom IVs that never were built.
A number of these are proposals by coachbuilders for chassis which in the event were bodied by other coachbuilders. Others were proposed but not built at all. Most are linked to a specific customer's name, such as the King Farouk, the Maharajas of Baroda and Mysore, as well as the Americans Briggs Cunningham and James Melton. It is evident that certain customers outside of the Royalty and Heads of State category believed that a Phantom IV would be available for purchase. Just how, or if, the news was broken to those customers that the firm would not supply a chassis for their proposed cars, or why they opted for other models, is open to conjecture.[27]
In 1956 the model was discontinued, by that time appropriate bodies for state use had been built on Silver Wraiths, which worked well for the factory, making dedicated Phantom IV production no longer necessary.[28] In 1952 the cost of the Phantom IV chassis was $10,000 (£3,500) and with a limousine body, $20,000 (£7,000), a huge price premium but perhaps still not enough to allow a profit on the small number built (eighteen made, seventeen sold).[29] However, its role of expanding the prestige of Rolls-Royce was achieved.
- Chassis 4AF18: Two big Lucas R-100 headlights flank the emblematic Parthenon-style radiator. Shell top and front look dead flat but are actually a few thousandths convex, so they will look flat, in accordance with the design principles (known as entasis) used by the ancient Greeks in that temple.[30]
- Chassis 4CS4: Kneeling Spirit of Ecstasy (1934–1939 and 1946–1956) mounted on most of the radiators, except chassis 4BP7 & 4CS6
Table of all 18 units
Chassis | Engine no. | Original owner / user | Coachwork | Current exterior | Current interior | Last known owner / location | Picture |
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4AF2 | P1A | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom | H. J. Mulliner | Royal Claret and Black | Front: Blue Leather, later redone in dark blue cloth. Rear: Grey cloth | State Car, | ![]() |
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4AF4 | P2A | Rolls-Royce | Park Ward | Grey | Dismantled, United Kingdom, | ||
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4AF6 | P3A | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran | H. J. Mulliner | Blue Silver | White Leather | Unknown, Hong Kong? | |
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4AF8 | P4A | Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait | H. J. Mulliner | Orange Biscuit over Royal Midnight Blue | Biscuit Leather | Unknown, Italy, | |
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4AF10 | P5A | Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester | Hooper Limousine | Black | Fawn Leather | Unknown, Unknown, | |
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4AF12 | P6A | Ernest Hives, the managing director and chairman of Rolls-Royce Limited | Hooper | Blue Repainted: Black | Beige | Ion Țiriac, | ![]() |
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4AF14 | P7A | Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain | H. J. Mulliner Limousine, 5-seater | Black | West of England Beige | Spanish Army. Barracks La Reina and Príncipe de Asturias, El Pardo, Madrid, Spain | ![]() The vehicle on the left |
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4AF16 | P8A | Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain | H. J. Mulliner Limousine, 7-seater No. 5036 Design 7181 | Black | West of England Beige | Spanish Army. Barracks La Reina and Príncipe de Asturias, El Pardo, Madrid, Spain | ![]() The vehicle on the right |
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4AF18 | P9A | Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain | H. J. Mulliner Cabriolet No. 4945 Design 7183 | Black | Green Leather | Spanish Army. Barracks El Rey (Sala Histórica de la Guardia Real), El Pardo, Madrid, Spain | ![]() |
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4AF20 | P10A | Aga Khan III | Hooper Limousine, Sedanca de Ville No. 9750 Design 8293 | Dark Green (Light Green pinstripe) Repainted: Red Repainted: Dark Green (Light Green pinstripe) (2015) | Red Leather | Ion Țiriac / Romania / 2022 | ![]() |
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4AF22 | P11A | The Prince Talal of Saudi Arabia | Franay Cabriolet No. Unknown Design 7183 | Cream and Green Repainted: Black | Green Leather | Unknown | |
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4BP1 | P1B | King Faisal II of Iraq | Hooper Limousine No. 9890 Design 8361 | Black | Red Leather | Bagdhad, Iraq | |
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4BP3 | P2B | 'Abd al-Ilah, Prince Regent of Iraq | Hooper Touring Limousine, 7-seater No. 9891 Design 8370 | Black Repainted: Black over White, Black Fenders,[46] Repainted: Black over Dark Blue | French Blue Leather | Royal Automobile Museum, Jordan | ![]() |
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4BP5 | P3B | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom | Hooper Landaulette No. 9941 Design 8399 | Royal Claret and Black | Front: Blue Leather Rear: Grey West of England Cloth | Private Collection, Missouri, USA | ![]() |
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4BP7 | P4B | Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon | H. J. Mulliner Limousine, 7-seater No. 5686 Design 7368 | Black | Beige Cloth | Unknown, Sold in 2021 | ![]() |
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4CS2 | P1C | Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait | H. J. Mulliner Limousine, 6 Light Saloon No. 5724 Design 7376 | Two-Tone Green | Olive Green Leather | Nethercutt Collection, California, USA | ![]() |
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4CS4 | P2C | Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait | H. J. Mulliner Limousine No. 5725 Design 7376 | Golden Copper and Silver | Beige Leather | Miguel de la Vía, | |
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4CS6 | P3C | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran | Hooper Limousine No. 10177 Design 8425 | Black Repainted: Bordeaux | Grey Leather | National Car Museum of Iran | ![]() |
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See also
Bugatti Royale, another luxury car model intended to be sold to the royalty.
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- ^ a b Bennett (2008), p. 15.
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- ^ Bennett, Martin (15 February 2010). Bentley Continental, Corniche & Azure 1951-2002. Dorchester: Veloce. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-84584-210-9.
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- ^ Bennett, Martin (15 February 2010). Bentley Continental, Corniche & Azure 1951-2002. Dorchester: Veloce. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-84584-210-9.
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- ^ a b Bennett (2008), p. 21.
- ^ Bennett (2008), p. 23.
- ^ King Charles, his late mother and the Phantom they both loved
- ^ Bennett (2008), p. 32.
- ^ Robotham, William Arthur (1970). Silver Ghosts and Silver Dawn. London, UK: Constable. pp. 233–235. ISBN 978-0-09456-690-3.
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- ^ a b Rolls-Royce & Bentley: The Crewe Years. London, UK: J H Haynes & Co Ltd. 2011. p. 20.
- ^ Trenk, Dick (6 April 2010). Bergsma, Joris; Booy, Rutger (eds.). "Comes with an armed guard". Post War Classic. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Pre-War Post-War Publishing. Archived from the original on 21 July 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
One chassis was rebodied with a six seat convertible body for the Shah and because it had been at the Mulliner Park Ward body works during the overthrow, it survived. It was smuggled into Switzerland and kept hidden.
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- ^ "A King's effects sell for £19,000". Daily News. United Kingdom. 9 September 1959. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
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- ^ a b Royal Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. London, UK: Osprey Publishing. 1991. p. 69ff.
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- ^ Stewart-Wilson, Mary (1991). The Royal Mews. London, UK: The Bodley Head. p. 187.
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- Bennett, Martin (2008). Rolls-Royce: The Postwar Phantoms IV, V, VI. Dalton Watson. ISBN 978-1-85443-220-9.
External links
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- "Article and vintage photos of each P. IV". Flickr.
- "Pictures of the 18 P. IV made". Pinterest.
- "Phantom IV". Rolls-Royce Foundation Image Collection. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017.
- "Phantom IV". Flickr. 2 January 2010.
- "Article on the 4BP3 (1953)". Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
- "Impressions of a P. IV". Rolls-Royce Owners' Club of Australia.
- "The model in Movies and TV series". Internet Movie Cars Database.
- "Vintage photos". Flickr.
Videos
- "Rolls-Royce Phantom IV playlist" – via YouTube.
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