Top Gear Silver Cloud

[@zypp33]

he lives at the end of our road ! I enjoy your channel , and the discovery of 'La carapate' . I wish I dared drive my car like that !

[@GlassedXKE]

Great video. Love the presenter...so imperious ;) Proper!

[@megaswenson]

Well, considering the ongoing campaign of genocide and replacement being waged against the English People by their rulers, I think it is safe to say that no, there will NOT always be an England. But what a wonderful video this is!

[@therealmkteal]

Thanks for uploading this lost footage, is there a way you can upload the full version with the studio ties as well?

[@LCPCthegameofchampions]

didn't realise the guy in this vid was a pedo, ouch.

[@jstevenson7121]

Lennon's was a Phantom but...whatever. He is right in that this was the last 'real' RR.

[@Kyleinasailing]

Well put, Sir. My Father had a SC111 in the 60's. He was 'professional' an not of the 'new money' type. As a 16 year old I absolutely adored the car my three sisters hated it. Turning up to school in the SC111 and taking the whole of the first 15, filthy, after a game back to the school from the pitch earned the SC111 new friends. Alfa Romeo's couldn't do that.

[@whammond511]

Well! He's certainly enthusiastic! The V8, while certainly an American innovation was never put in a Rolls. It was their own interpretation. The transmission, now that was American. It was the Hydramatic (Cadillac) 4 speed which Rolls thought suitable for their Marque!

[@wholeNwon]

First used in the US in 1939! Citroen suspension later.

[@peterbradshaw8018]

No sir it was a Rolls Royce engine it was not an American engine. I hear folk say that all the time. It is getting a bit annoying now.

[@EEnnisjr]

It was not an American engine, but definitely was derived from American engines. However much better. This video is not accurate about several things. He also said RR made their own transmissions. All post war cars to 2002 were GM units. After Vickers turned over management in 2003, BMW used ZF until today. Bentley did the same.

[@elliottanderson2453]

@@EEnnisjr They did build their own improved versions of the American-derived transmissions though.

[@waitotong9590]

sad silver shadow noises...

[@georgeswanson9483]

I want some of whatever the old guy was on...

[@geoffdundee]

he is stuart hall................watch........ watch?v=R9xTeZ82F3w

[@wholeNwon]

Gin-induced whimsy perhaps.

[@sukhdevr3489]

You really don't

[@richardscally694]

Rolls-Royce Wonderful,.....presenter Ugh!!

[@EEnnisjr]

They didn’t make their transmission for any post war cars. They used GM tank transmissions until after mid sixties with no park. Then the GM transmission until BMW purchased from Vickers. Then still GM and ZF for several years, an after BM took over completely in 2003, all were ZF transmissions. I don’t know what transmissions were used prior to the Silver Dawn. Perhaps RR built their own. This video is a bit false.

[@nickeldridge9454]

+e ennis : All the pre-war Rolls-Royces and Bentley cars were fitted only with manual gearboxes which were designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce. The post-war cars were the Silver Wraith which was sold only as a chassis (to be bodied by external coachbuilders) ... also the Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn, the Mark VI Bentley and the Bentley R-Type which from 1946 were originally sold only with a manual gearbox but from 1952 were all offered with the optional choice of the GM automatic transmissions. The GM transmissions were used under a licensing agreement with General Motors where the individual parts were purchased from GM but the transmissions were actually assembled with Rolls-Royce's own modifications to some of the components carried out in the Rolls-Royce factory ... so the GM transmissions were actually assembled by Rolls-Royce. The Silver Cloud introduced in 1955 was the first model to be fitted only with an automatic transmission ... no manual gearbox option. The last Rolls-Royces and Bentleys to be offered with a choice of manual or automatic transmission were the Bentley R-Type and the RR Silver Dawn. The early GM transmissions did have a 'Park' position but no 'P' marked on the selector quadrant. After switching off the ignition you put the lever into 'R' (for reverse) and the parking-pawl in the transmission activates to lock the drive-train.

[@elliottanderson2453]

@@nickeldridge9454 Your comment is mostly correct, apart from the last part. There were a few Bentley S series cars which were ordered with manual gearboxes.

[@nickeldridge9454]

@@elliottanderson2453 Yes ... there were apparently just a handful built with manual gearboxes. These were only offered on six-cylinder S -type Continental models. Nobody seems to have an accurate figure for how many were built. When I was much younger I worked in the trade at various Rolls-Royce & Bentley specialists ... I've seen dozens of S1 Continentals but never encountered a manual version. I presume they would have used the same manual unit that was offered on the R-Types and Silver Dawns. Have you ever seen one ?

[@elliottanderson2453]

@@nickeldridge9454 I do actually have a note of all the cars in the Silver Cloud/S era that left the factory with manual gearboxes. There weren't many though. There was 1 Silver Cloud standard steel saloon and 1 Bentley S standard steel saloon, as well as a number of Bentley S continental chassis fitted as such. Around 15 if I remember correctly.

[@elliottanderson2453]

I have never seen one in person, but I've seen photos. The gearbox was the same as that on the R-Type.

[@zypp33]

Stuart Hall is the Rolls Royce of presenters ,Top Notch !!

[@wholeNwon]

They can't even make wind screen wipers that reliably park correctly. They were engineering antiques even in 1955. But they were beautiful. The new ones are hideous beyond belief.

[@steelman86]

wholeNwon ...I humbly disagree! At least on my Cloud II, there is an knurled nut for adjustment on the wiper motor to park the windscreen wipers properly. Adjusted it back in 2004 and haven’t had to readjust since!

[@tommasosantojanni]

_«The engine originally american»_ ? _«400 bhp»_ ? Really? I'm Italian and I know better! Is this BBC's famous quality? The engine was an original English design only based on a V8 american architecture. And one would be lucky to measure 230bhp in the II & III series, much less in the 6 cylinder in line of the I series that he's presenting. Mammamia! This presenter leaves a lot to be desired!

[@zypp33]

Very awkward !!! Little did we know.

[@adam1othman]

the best car is ferrari period. but the best car for royalty is the rolls royce, you don't use a ferrari every day because every drive is special where as the roller makes driving everyday special. id buy my ferrari and all my other super cars for the usage intended but for daily use its gonna be a roller thats my opinion and i don't care if someone else disagrees. another thing is that each nation has a contender for the best car and from england its RR