Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost by Gerald Wingrove

I just received the March/April issue of The Flying Lady - this is the official Rolls-Royce Owners Club bimonthly magazine.

There is a superb article on a model that Wingrove did of the 1912 Silver Ghost number 1826E - the care was nicknamed "Mystery" by Claude Johnson, one of the early directors of the Rolls-Royce company.

Needless to say, this is a magnificent model in 1/15 (Wingrove's preferred scale). If you know Mr. Wingrove's work, you will know what I mean.

The article includes numerous color plates of the model, B&W photos of the original car, which still exists, a history of the prototype, and even the line drawings Wingrove did of the prototype before constructing the model.

I am working on getting some PDF images of these images to post here - but if someone else happens to be a RR owner or Club member and can beat me to the punch, please feel free to post on this thread for everyone to enjoy.

 

There is a website listed to look at a review of the building of this model:

1912 40/50 Rolls-Royce London-Edinburgh Tourer in 1.15th scale

Unfortunately, my browser will bring it up but I have not figured out how to make the video play.

I am calling the RROC today to see if it is ok to reproduce their photo spread to post here.

 

Thanks- I forgot about that meet. I only got a recording from the central office.

Will check again next week; this model is worth the effort.

 

Did you have trouble getting it to play? My browser only shows a black box with an "X" in the upper left corner - and I could not figure out how to get the controls to appear...