1946' Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith Silver Wraith

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Located in the USA...


1946 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith with a great UK WW II History.

Is Now being restored and will have more pics in a month.

Price:$Best offer please..usd dollars...the price can change if we do more work to this car.


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For information on the Silver Wraith II, see Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.


Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith

Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith 1955.jpg
1955 Silver Wraith with a body by Hooper & Co

Overview

Manufacturer
Rolls-Royce Ltd

Production
1946–1958
1883 produced (incl. 639 LWB cars)

Body and chassis

Class
Full-size luxury car (F)

Body style
4-door saloon

Layout
Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive

Related
Silver Dawn

Powertrain

Engine
4.3 L I6 1946-51
4.6 L I6 1951-55
4.9 L I6 1955-58
F-head

Transmission
4-speed manual with synchromesh 1946-1952
Hydramatic 1952-1958

Dimensions

Wheelbase
3225.8 mm (127 in) 1946-53 or:
3378.2 mm (133 in) 1951-58

Chronology

Predecessor
Wraith

Successor
Long wheelbase Silver Cloud II


1956 Silver Wraith
touring limousine by H J Mulliner


Rear of the touring limousine
The Silver Wraith was the first post-war Rolls-Royce. It was made from 1946 to 1958 as only a chassis at Rolls-Royce's former Merlin engine plant, their Crewe factory, alongside the shorter Bentley Mark VI.

It was announced by Rolls-Royce in April 1946 as the 25/30 hp replacement for the 1939 Wraith in what had been their 20 hp and 20/25 hp market sector, that is to say Rolls-Royce's smaller car. The size was chosen to be in keeping with the mood of post-war austerity. Even very limited production of the chassis of the larger car, their Phantom, was not resumed until 1950 and then, officially, only for Heads of State.[1]

Improvements announced were: chromium plated cylinder bores for the engine; a new more rigid chassis frame to go with new independent front suspension and a new synchromesh gearbox. Chassis lubrication was now centralised.[2]


The straight six-cylinder postwar engine, which had been briefly made for the aborted by war Bentley Mark V, replaced conventional overhead valve gear with an F-head configuration of overhead inlet valves and side exhaust valves and reshaped combustion chambers. There were new main and big-end bearings and a more efficient drive to the timing gear. To this prewar mix Rolls-Royce added chromed bores. Initially, this engine retained the Mark V's capacity of 4257 cc. increased from 1951 to 4566 cc and in 1955, after the introduction of the (standard wheelbase) Silver Cloud, to 4887 cc for the remaining Silver Wraiths.[3]

Chassis[edit]

The first cars had an entirely new 127 inch (3226 mm) wheelbase chassis which differed considerably from that of the pre-war Wraith and was much nearer rigid. It matched the new Bentley chassis but with an extra 7 inch section added to the centre. The new chassis had coil sprung independent front suspension, which required a very rigid chassis to function properly, and at the rear conventional semi-elliptic springs and live axle. The braking system was a hybrid hydro-mechanical system with hydraulic front brakes and mechanical rears using the mechanical servo similar to that of the pre-war cars.[4]

The last short-wheelbase cars were delivered in November 1953. The long, 133 inch (3378 mm), wheelbase chassis was announced in 1951 and the first delivered in January 1952. 639 were made by the time of the last deliveries in October 1958.

This was not quite the last Rolls-Royce model to be supplied as a "chassis only" ready for a wide variety of bespoke coachwork designed and made by a rapidly declining number of specialist coachbuilders.[5] Most of the bodies selected used "formal" limousine designs.[5]

Automatic transmission[edit]

Initially only a four-speed manual gearbox was offered, but this was supplemented by a General Motors Hydramatic automatic option from 1952.




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Can be exported at your coast or about $1,500 dollars to the UK port in 4 weeks...


- Serious collectors please...more pics coming and on request...


Thanks for looking


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