1965 Bentley S3 Continental Convertible Park Ward - rvl

Mulliner Park Ward was a bespoke

coachbuilder A coachbuilder or body-maker is someone who manufactures bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles.Construction has always been a skilled trade requiring a relatively lightweight product with sufficient strength. The manufacture of necessarily ...

in Hythe Road,

Willesden Willesden () is an area of northwest London, situated 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It is historically a parish in the county of Middlesex that was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Willesden in 1933, and has formed ...

, London UK. Mulliner now is the personal commissioning department for Bentley. Mulliner Park Ward was a subsidiary of

Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce (always hyphenated) may refer to: * Rolls-Royce Limited, a British manufacturer of cars and later aero engines, founded in 1906, now defunct Automobiles * Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the current car manufacturing company incorporated in ...

and made

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bodies in London for Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars. The coachbuilding business closed in 1991 but the Mulliner name is used for the personal commissioning department of the current Bentley manufacturer.

History

Rolls-Royce Limited Rolls-Royce was a British luxury car and later an aero-engine manufacturing business established in 1904 in Manchester by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce. Building on Royce's good reputation established with his cranes, they ...

formed Mulliner Park Ward by the 1961 merger of two Rolls-Royce subsidiaries:

Park Ward Park Ward was a British coachbuilder founded in 1919 which operated from Willesden in North London. In the 1930s, backed by Rolls-Royce Limited, it made technical advances which enabled the building of all-steel bodies to Rolls-Royce's high st ...

of Willesden, London, a Rolls-Royce subsidiary since 1939 and H. J. Mulliner & Co. of Chiswick, a Rolls-Royce subsidiary since 1959.Hemmings Motor News Collector Car Encyclopedia

References

External links

{{commons category, Mulliner Park Ward Coachwork
Rolls-Royce Coachbuilder: Mulliner Park WardMulliner Park Ward, in the Rolls-Royce Wiki
Coachbuilders of the United Kingdom Vehicle manufacture in London Bentley Rolls-Royce