The mysterious Rolls Royce in Creery's tour in 1948

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“It is seldom that a Rolls-Royce is looked at with distaste, and yet it is the only word that would fit when I first came upon "Victoria" in the back-yard of a prefabricated house in the north end of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; its sole function in life for, the past four years had been to hold up the outboard end of a clothesline. The Haligonian climate is one of the most ruinous for cars and wears ordinary cars to scrapings of rust in ten years. The car in the back-yard was shabby, the once-beautiful leather upholstery dry as dust and brittle as cardboard, and all mixed up with the springs and hair; rust had eaten the tails of the front wings to shreds and had seized up every external control rod and engine fitting.

The engine itself was coated in rust and wires were cracked and broken. The paint was faded and uneven, the radiator black, the woodwork dry and cracked with hundreds of rusty nails and screws, and the instruments had all long ago been stolen. But the lines of a 1919 Silver Ghost open tourer are regal and unmistakable.” - The Autocar (May 13, 1949).

This is the beginning of a wonderful and adventures story of an 8,000 miles trip three Canadian Naval Officers made in 1948. This article, written by one of the protagonists - Lieutenant Commander R.A. Creery, has to do with the question we received from John Peirson from West Vancouver. John has been researching Silver Ghosts that came to Canada for over 40 years.

He wrote us “ the car that drove from Nova Scotia to Victoria, BC and back has not been identified by any of the experts I have consulted so far, so I am hoping one or more of your readers will help. We are told it’s a 1919 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, and the plate number, presumably a Nova Scotia 1946 plate, is clearly shown as 9-37-86. But what is the car’s chassis number and where is it now?”

Is there anyone who can tell us more about this specific Rolls Royce that took part in Creery's tour in 1948?

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