Rolls-Royce Foundation (3/19/2025)

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

On the way to Buffalo, a stop at the Rolls-Royce Foundation in Mechanicsburg, PA: North America's museum and research facility for Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motorcars.

1946 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, the first Rolls-Royce
produced after World War II (until 1958); interesting to note
that Rolls-Royce built the chassis, and different
companies built the coachwork/body

The Rolls-Royce Flying Lady hood ornament,
created by sculptor Charles Sykes in 1909

1938 Bentley 4-1/4 Litre 'Dona Ximena'

The 'Dona Ximena' has a rare pillarless body

The Bentley Flying B hood ornament, perhaps created
by artist F Gordon Crosby in the 1920s

1977 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II, produced 1977-1980

"Portraits" of Rolls-Royces with details such as
license plates, coachbuilder plates, country flags, etc.

Collection of toy Rolls-Royces and Bentleys

Bentley Turbo R Engine (1989)

A Rolls-Royce chassis upon which the body is built

1960 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II was introduced in 1959
along with the first Rolls-Royce V-8 engine

This Silver Cloud II was customized with a
picnic table and chairs

1995 Bentley Brooklands (Brooklands is an auto race track
in Surrey, England where Bentley won many races)

1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V that was featured in the
2022 movie Hustle starring Adam Sandler and Robert Duvall

1986 Rolls-Royce Camargue is unique in that the
coachbuilder was Italian: Pininfarina

Rolls-Royce once owned by by guru and cult leader
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who had a medical condition
 and was only comfortable in a Rolls-Royce,
of which his followers purchased many for him

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1898)
of Perry County, in New Bloomfield, PA