A Rolls-Royce that Maharaja Vijaysinhji of Rajpipla retained
only for a short while was a Phantom II 1935, chassis no. 171 TA,
Windovers saloon with division coachwork design no. 6277.
This car soon passed to Lady Scarsdale in
November of that year, and then began a chequered record. The car was known to
be with a Mr. Dovey in Uitenhage, South Africa, who
brought it there from Nchanga (Chingola), Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. It was
purchased by Michael Morelli in April 1975 in terrible condition. He decided to
junk the body and obtain, or build, an open tourer replica with a side-mounted
spare wheel, but then thankfully retained the saloon.
The present owner is Charles Goodman, auto
restorer in South Africa, who bought the car in the year 2000. I am in touch
with him. He likes the cream and maroon car very much and plans to restore it
to mint condition soon.
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