Talk:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV

12 feet wide seems unlikely

Is there a typo or mistake in the dimensions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.83.148 (talk) 16:54, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

It's less than 2 meters wide or about 6 feet wide. B.I.G. but not impossibly so, I think. (12 feet would be 144 inches.) Regards Charles01 (talk) 16:02, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Proposed revision of the 18 car table

When viewed on a tablet, the 18 car table is too wide, going beyond the width of the article. It might help if the images were moved into the cell with the commentary and the image column were removed. I have attempted to do this below; comments on this version are invited. Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 10:45, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Chassis	First owner/user	Coachbuilder	Type of coachwork	Coachwork number/design	Original colour	Upholstery	Delivery date
4AF2	HRH The Princess Elizabeth, The Duchess of Edinburgh	H. J. Mulliner	Limousine 7-seater	5034 / 7162	First Valentine green with a red stripe down either side; repainted claret and black in 1952	Front: blue leather, later redone in darl blue cloth. Rear: grey cloth	6 July 1950
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF2.jpg			Mascot of Saint George and dragon, designed by artist Edward Seago, it is made of silver and can be transferred from car to car—whichever the Queen is riding in. Fitted with a specially modified driver's seat in case the Duke of Edinburgh wished to drive himself. It is fitted with a Lion as the mascot when used in Scotland On April 10, 1952, the Queen was driven in this car to her first royal engagement—the presentation of Maundy Money at the Westminster Abbey. It carried the Queen to the opening of the British parliament in 1954. Fitted with an automatic gearbox in 1955.
4AF4	Rolls-Royce	Park Ward	Pick-up truck	~	Grey	~	1 October 1950
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF4.jpg			Experimental truck used for the factory. Dismantled in 1963.
4AF6	HM Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran	H. J. Mulliner	Cabriolet	5077 / 7205	Blue silver	White	3 December 1951
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF6.jpg			According to Martin Bennett's book "Rolls-Royce & Bentley: The Crewe Years" (3rd edition, 2011), chassis 4AF6, a 2-door convertible, was returned to Rolls-Royce: The third PIV built, and the second delivered to a customer, was 4AF6 for the Shah of Iran. The coachwork was again by H.J. Mulliner, but the huge drophead coupe body, which was finished in a light metallic blue with white leather upholstery, was by no means characteristic of this coachbuilder. It was the only Phantom IV to have built-in Silver Dawn type headlamps. The car was returned to Rolls-Royce Ltd in 1959, it is believed because it had proved insufficiently stiff, flexing severely on Iranian roads. The outcome was that the company scrapped it, though the body survives on a Phantom III chassis, which perhaps suggests that the fault lay with the chassis. The car made its way to the United States in 1982, apparently from Switzerland, still with its metallic blue paint. Recent photos of it (2000s) exist online, but its current whereabouts are unknown.
4AF8	HH Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Hakim of Kuwait	H. J. Mulliner	Limousine 6 light saloon	5153 / 7206	Beige and royal midnight blue	Biscuit	July 1951
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF8.jpg
4AF10	HRH The Prince Henry, The Duke of Gloucester	Hooper	Limousine	9663 / 8292	Black	Fawn	1 September 1951
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF10.jpg			According to Philip C. Brook's article "Phantoms in a Postwar World": "(...) The car was very imposing. It was also huge, and the late HRH Prince William of Gloucester told me that the family sold the car because it was too big. Delivered in 1951, it was sold in October 1960 (...)." It was later featured in the 1966 films Arabesque and Fumo di Londra (Smoke over London).
4AF12	Ernest Hives, director of RR, then sold to HRH The Princess Marina, The Duchess of Kent	Hooper	Limousine 7-seater	9719 / 8307	Blue, later repainted black	Beige	1 July 1951
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF12.jpg			According to Martin Bennett's book "Rolls-Royce & Bentley: The Crewe Years" (3rd edition, 2011), Ernest Hives is said to have used the car only infrequently, preferring his Bentley R Type B226WH. The car was built with a manual transmission but was converted to automatic before being sold to Princess Marina. In the collection of Ion Țiriac, Romania.
4AF14	Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain	H. J. Mulliner	Limousine 5-seater	5035 / 7181	Black	West of England beige	13 June 1952
	Armored.
4AF16	Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain	H.J. Mulliner	Limousine 7-seater	5036 / 7181	Black	West of England beige	4 July 1952
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF16.jpg			Armored. Used by H.M. King Felipe VI of Spain for his ceremonial progress from the Zarzuela Palace to Congress, Madrid, for his Coronation on 19 June 2014.
4AF18	Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain	H. J. Mulliner	Cabriolet	4945 / 7183	Black	Green leather	28 March 1952
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF18.jpg			Armored. Also used by H.M. King Felipe VI of Spain after his Coronation on 19 June 2014 for ceremonial procession from Congress to Royal Palace in Madrid.
4AF20	HH Aga Khan III	Hooper	Limousine sedanca de ville	9750 / 8293	Dark green with a sideline in light green; later repainted entirely red	Red leather	May 1952
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF20.jpg			When R. R. sold the car to the Aga Khan they included a clause which said he could not sell the car. However after his death his widow sold it to the Mayfair-Lennox hotel (Missouri, USA), where it was used to pick up guests at the airport but due to the boot short capacity it was resold in 1962. The car was later repainted red. In August 2011, the car was offered for sale at the Gooding & Company auction held in Pebble Beach, California. It was estimated to sell for $850,000-1,100,000. Bidding failed to satisfy the vehicle's reserve and it left the auction unsold. It is now in the collection of Ion Țiriac.
4AF22	HH The Prince Talal of Saudi Arabia	Franay	Cabriolet	- / 7183	Cream and green; later repainted black	Green leather	June 1952
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4AF22.jpg			The only Phantom IV with a French-made coachwork. This one was listed in their works description as a sedanca de ville, but a four-door cabriolet was erected on the chassis instead.
4BP1	HM King Faisal II of Iraq	Hooper	Limousine	9890 / 8361	Black	Red leather	26 March 1953
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4BP1.jpg			Made for his coronation.
4BP3	HRH 'Abd al-Ilah, Prince Regent of Iraq	Hooper	Touring limousine 7-seater	9891 / 8370	Delivered all-black; later black over white, with black fenders, and then finally the white segments painted dark blue.	Light blue leather	26 March 1953
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4BP3.jpg			Built for the coronation of his nephew, King Faisal II. Years later all the royal family members were assassinated in the 1958 coup d'état. At the time of the uprising, the car was at Hooper's in London for servicing, and it was eventually sold in the USA. Displayed at The Royal Automobile Museum, Amman, Jordan.
4BP5	HM Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom	Hooper	Landaulet	9941 / 8399	Claret and black	Front: blue leather, rear: grey cloth	1 May 1954
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4BP5.jpg			Rolls-Royce retained this car for the exclusive use of the British Royal Family. Finally in 1959 it was purchased by the Queen. This car was built to celebrate RR Golden Jubilee, 1904 - 1954. On permanent loan at the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation, Paulerspury, U.K.
4BP7	HRH The Princess Margaret, The Countess of Snowdon	H. J. Mulliner	Limousine 7-seater	5686 / 7368	Black	Beige cloth	16 July 1954
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4BP7.jpg			Purchased by Princess Margaret, she chose Pegasus designed by Edward Seago and made (by Louis Lejeune Ltd., London) as her mascot. Fitted with an adjustable seat in case the Princess wished to drive herself. The car, still in its original black color and featuring its Pegasus hood ornament, was offered for sale by The Real Car Company of Bethesda, Gwynedd, North Wales in 2008. No selling price was published but the company states that it sold for "somewhere around $750,000."
4CS2	HH Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Hakim of Kuwait	H. J. Mulliner	Limousine 6 light saloon	5724 / 7376	Two-tone green	Olive green leather	1 February 1955
	On display at the Nethercutt Collection, 15151 Bledsoe Street, Sylmar, CA 91342 (USA). The series C, to which belong only the last three P. IVs had a powered version of the engine with 197hp compared to 160hp of the rest. According to a plaque at the Nethercutt Collection, the car cost $25,000 when purchased new.
4CS4	HH Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Hakim of Kuwait	H. J. Mulliner	Limousine	5725 / 7376	Golden copper and silver	Beige	August 1955
				On display at Castillo Concejuelo in Torre Loizaga, Biscay, Spain.
4CS6	HM Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran	Hooper	Limousine	10177 / 8425	Black then repainted in bordeaux	Grey leather	October 1956
	File:Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4CS6.jpg			In 1977 the car was in London for "major repairs and refurbishing". After three years and a reported $25,000 worth of repairs, the car was still in the UK. There was a dispute over who owned the car; the ousted Shah or representatives of the Iranian Embassy who said it belonged to their country. Finally the exiled Pahlavi family lost their claim to ownership in the British courts. Displayed at the National Car Museum of Iran.

Disappearing photos

A bot removed most of the photos. What's going on??? --RThompson82 (talk) 22:29, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Copyfraud Eddaido (talk) 22:36, 22 May 2016 (UTC)