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AOLJU ◊ 2013-06-20 19:07	I think it's a Rolls Royce.
robgeelen2 ◊ 2013-06-21 00:55	It certainly is.
nzcarnerd ◊ 2013-06-21 10:29	Maybe a pre WW2 20/25? I think the red Lincoln is worth a page.
no-a ◊ 2013-06-21 11:41	nzcarnerd wrote Maybe a pre WW2 20/25? I think the red Lincoln is worth a page. I've just added Lincoln
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-27 23:06	It is a (pre-war 25/30 h.p.) Wraith, most likely either chassis number WEC24 or WEC40 as those are the two that I have with Park Ward Limousine bodies - which the car pictured has - with sealed beams headlamps, which this car has.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 19:55	This is a photograph of the two cars I think are the only possible nominees. WEC40 on the left is the black one so my best bet is on that, though I wouldn't say that it is definitely that car.
dsl ◊ 2017-04-28 20:05	elan2000 wrote WEC40 on the left .... The pale one on left looks as if it has WEC 24 UK plate underneath the bumper (issued late 1954, Oxford). Even if a fake, it suggests WEC 40 is on right.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 20:36	Sorry, indeed WEC40 is on the right and WEC24 is on the left.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 20:37	Do you know the timestamp of this scene pictured appears in the movie, or at least the rough time in which it appears?
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2017-04-28 20:46	The "WEC" series referred to are Wraith chassis numbers, nothing to do with number plates. WEC on a number plate would have been a County Council of Westmorland issue, but the series was discontinued at MEC in June 1964.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 20:50	But the car on the left is WEC24, for that to be the registration of the car and the chassis number would be extraordinary but it is not. It is a vanity plate. WEC24, when in the UK was registered XZV320 by the way.
dsl ◊ 2017-04-28 20:55	dsl wrote WEC 24 UK plate underneath the bumper (issued late 1954, Oxford). Ooops - jfs is right - WEC 24 was not issued in period - I mis-read a line for WFC. So ignore anything to do with 1954 and Oxford here.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2017-04-28 21:04	XZV is a combination issued by the City of Dublin between 1981 and 1986. It seems that the car has had more than one registration in U.K. or Ireland and my point was that vanity plates do not work when they are mistakenly taken as a method of dating the chassis. My Bentley was registered in June 1953 and still carries its original plate, but my 2012 Mercédès has a plate that makes it look like a 1997 car, but carrying my initials.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 21:07	And my late father owned GA1 and 1GA (they are for sale on RegTransfers by the person whom we sold them to), his initials and they were on a 1989 Mercedes-Benz 190e 2.5 16V "Cosworth" and a 1998 Range Rover 4.0 SE P38A, confusing everybody about the date of issue. On a further note he purchased both plates from General Accident.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 21:09	See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127992918@N02/
dsl ◊ 2017-04-28 21:10	elan2000 wrote WEC24, when in the UK was registered XZV 320. Odd plate series, issued in Dublin, now on a Daihatsu Charade CX 1.0 D. Can't claim this is definite, but seems only issued 1981-86 or from 1986 onwards (same book says different things in separate lists - on p82 and p266 in case jfs can shed any light)
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 21:11	p82 and 266 of what book?
dsl ◊ 2017-04-28 21:22	One of the Bibles. The other is Glass's series.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 21:52	I think it is actually WHC70. A Hooper Limousine. I know the owner (or at least former owner now) of this car. I have found the point in the film where the car appears and upon further inspection it is not a Park Ward D-Back Limousine but a Hooper Limousine with the signature Hooper boot found on their Wraith designs. The other photographs are of WHC70 a few years ago.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 21:55	WHC70 was originally owned by Lord Strickland, originally delivered to his home on Malta.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2017-04-28 22:11	I would suggest that the confusion is caused by p82 saying 81 to 86 when it means 85 to 86.
robgeelen2 ◊ 2017-04-28 22:31	#WEC40
elan2000 ◊ 2017-04-28 22:47	It is WHC70 to the best of my knowledge Rob, not WEC40 as the one in the movie has a boot and in Bernard King's CC2 1998 it was in the U.S., also, it has sealed beams.
elan2000 ◊ 2017-05-17 22:11	The chassis number of this Wraith is neither WHC70 nor WEC40 but it is - and I am quite sure of this - WHC56 (pictured). The photographs that I attach to this comment are of WHC56 when in the United States.

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1938 Rolls-Royce 25/30 h.p. Wraith Hooper Limousine [WHC56]

1938 Rolls-Royce 25/30 h.p. Wraith [WHC56] in From the Terrace, Movie, 1960

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