SC Supplement.indd - Sir Henry Royce Foundation

The Boom Years of the 1920s
A further view of 1921 Silver Ghost
38MG by Smith & Waddington
showing more detail such as dashboard,
rear screen, and luggage
rack. Milton Kent photograph.
(Courtesy of John Dunn via David
Neely)
A 1920s Silver Ghost with modified
body, possibly chassis 85AG. (Daily
Telegraph 25 Mar. 1937 p.20, courtesy
of the Mitchell Library)
1921 Silver Ghost 179MG as a
farm vehicle and still wearing the
remains of its second body, photographed
late 1946 or early 1947.
Note the distinctive style of the
windscreen as used by Supreme
(see 1332 and 20HG). The accompanying
car is 1920 Silver Ghost
3PP Barker tourer. (Courtesy of
Gavin Sandford-Morgan)
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Chapter 2
143AG p.96. After ‘Groves’s car’ add ‘. Hard top removed,
period style wings reinstated’.
9LG p.96. Delete note on reg’n VIC-159-601, see 20 h.p.
GYL29 instead.
24LG p.96-97. See under 1334 for information about O. G. S.
Lane. It is possible the Fisher body was ex Buick.
179MG p.99. After ‘Oct. 1925;’ add ‘rebodied mid 1930s as a
saloon, believed by Supreme; used on farm near Naracoorte,
S.A., with rear of body removed, for superphosphate spreading
reg’d SA-176-377; found near Naracoorte ca 1945 by
Ben Tillett, bought by Alfred Hughes, ‘Nockatunga Station’,
on S.A./Qld/N.S.W. border;’.
62JG p.100. Change ‘McLaurin’ to ‘Prof. E. C. B.
Maclaurin’.
76JG p.100. Add new owner ‘; Max Houston, N.S.W., 1998’.
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