My Silver Shadow

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History

This is the most beautiful part of the DM-37-65! Here still with the registration number that it had until 1996.

This page tells the story of my Silver Shadow, registration number DM-37-65.

The meaning of history
The presence of full history makes a Rolls-Royce or Bentley a valuable property. The presence and quality of the history is part of the valuation and is of influence on the value of the car.

The history of my Silver Shadow is not impressive. Yet I possess some interesting papers and of course I keep everything that has to do with the car myself. All together the next history can be recorded.

Dates of delivery and maintenance
The SRH6839 knows as "date of sales" May 6 1969. The "warranty acknowledgement date" is May 9 1969. The car is on May 9 1969 delivered to A.M. Armitage, Les Près, Grouville, Jersey C.I., one of the Channel Islands (C.I. = Channel Islands).

The first maintenance, the one on 3000 miles or 3 months, took place on november 11 1969 at a mileage of 2930.
The second maintenance, the one on 6000 miles or 6 months, on June 23 1970 at a mileage of 7140. All next maintenances are dictated with an interval of 6000 miles or half a year. The maintenancebooklet mentions maintenances on the next dates and mileages:

   -  May 7 1971 on 10.231 miles;
   -  September 5 1972 on 17.001 miles;
   -  November 22 1973 on 23.944 miles;
   -  August 20 1974 on 30.164 miles;
   -  September 1 1975 on 36.114 miles;
   -  May 13 1976 on 42.411 miles;
   -  March 7 1988 on 18.230 miles.

The Department of Transport made "testcertificates" on:

   -  Februari 26 1993 on 24.487 miles;
   -  November 22 1993 on 24.954 miles;
   -  December 16 1994 on 27.697 miles;
   -  Januari 6 1996 on 28.583 miles.

It is remarkable that the mileage does not go on from low to high. The original milometer is on a mileage of 46.548 broken down and replaced. This original counter was saved with the car.

Jersey, Birmingham, Brighton
The car is told to be stayed on Jersey until 1973 and has been property of one or more owners in Birmingham and Brighton from 1973 to 1996. The maintenances from Juni 1970 and May 1971 are stamped by the garage at Bath Street in Jersey. The first readable stamp afterwards is that from August 1974, stamped by a garage at Granville Street in Birmingham. This garage has put the stamps until 1976. The stamp of 1988 comes from Aberaeron SA46 0DY and has been put by the Gwrthwynt Garage (this name contains no mistakes; it looks rather Welsh). The car is bought up in 1996 in Brighton and is driven to The Netherlands.

Documents
At delivery of the car the next documents must have been delivered: a handbook, a sales & service handbook, a maintenance voucher book, a radio waranty, a waranty paper and a copy of the invoice. At this moment the waranty paper and invoice are not present any more. But I do possess the operating instructions of the original radio and a roadmap to the factory in Crewe. That the car has still the oroginal handbook and most of the tools, is peculiar on itself. These memories are often kept aside when the car changes of owner.

In my possession since May 1996
I bought my car at Globob Trading in Heemstede in May 1996. That day the car was only one day in The Netherlands and wasn't yet registrated in The Netherlands. The registration number mentioned the year 1973 as the year of delivery. But that year it was shipped from Jersey to Birmingham. I have arranged an administrative conversion to the original year of delivery. In the first place because that is just the year of production and delivery, secondly because the car wouldn't have been 25 years of age and in that case I would have been obliged to pay road-taxes. My registration number DM-37-65 dates from August 3 1996.

Repairs since 1996
The historical overview below can be put up of my car since 1996. It doesn't contain all repairs, improvements or other acts of maintenance. It is an abstract in order to ginve you an impression of the type of work that was necessary or desirable. The overview is written up until February 2006.

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