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The Silver Shadow II Anniversary

The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II Anniversary was launched when Rolls-Royce existed 75 years. Since the company was founded in 1904 the celebration of 75 years of existence took place in 1979.
The Silver Shadow II Anniversary can be recognised by red badges on the grille, boot lid and in the door openings. Further on every Anniversary has a plaque in the glove compartment of the dashboard.

A Georgian silver Anniversary with the red badge on the grille.

Silver Shadow II and one Camargue
The red badges were only applied to Rolls-Royces and not to Bentleys, for Rolls-Royce existed 75 years, and not Bentley. Only 4-door saloons were provided with red signs, not long wheelbases and not Corniches. But there was one exception. The Rolls-Royce Camargue with chassisnumber JRH50085 was an anniversary Camargue in the one-off colour Coronation Blue Fire Mist.

Colourscheme
All cars that were destined for the American market, had the colourscheme Georgian silver with grey and red interior. All cars for the other markets had this or other colours. Colours I've met are gold, silver sand, royal blue over grey (2-tone with black interior), peacock blue, walnut over honey, other dark blue colours, honey, and so on. All those cars had a red badge, whether this was a good combination of colours or not.

A RHD Anniversary with the colour Silver sand.

The first and the last Anniversary
An anniversary could be ordered, but the customer didn't need to. The "special charges" of a "75th Anniversary car" were £ 290. It finally lasted more than 800 chassisnumbers before the complete series of Anniversaries were sold. The first Anniversary I have registered is the SRH37987, the last one the SRH38850. Production of the Anniversaries started in July 1979 and ended probably in November 1979. Many Anniversaries were only delivered in 1980.

The gray and red interior of an American Anniversary.

Number of Anniversaries
There is a lot of confusion about the numbers of Anniversaries that were produced. Many books and articles mention a number of 75 cars, but Roßfeld says on his site that there must have been 100 made, 25 for the UK homemarket and 75 for the overseas customers. Henry Perkins however pointed me out that there are 3 separate plaques made. The texts are:
   This motor car is one of 75 for our United Kingdom customers with a special badge to mark the 75th Anniversary of Rolls-Royce.
   This motor car is one of 75 for our overseas customers with a special badge to mark the 75th Anniversary of Rolls-Royce.
   This motor car is one of 75 designed in a special colour scheme for our overseas customers to mark the 75th Anniversary of Rolls-Royce.

On 11th July 2007 the press release about these Anniversaries was published on Ebay. The text is:
"LYNDHURST, N.J. - Seventy five "special" Rolls-Royce cars are to be sold in the United States to mark the 75th anniversary of the first car built by Henry Royce.
These anniversary Silver Shadow II cars will be finished in Georgian silver with charcoal grey leather upholstery and red carpets. A small plaque will be fitted inside the glove compartment where it will not be "ostentatious" says Rolls-Royce Motors.
Another feature of the special cars is likely to be spotted only by the observant. The famous RR badge, normally painted in black, will be in red. Legend claims that the badge lettering was changed from red to black to mark the death of Sir Henry Royce in1933. In fact, Sir Henry had himself decided to change the lettering as black was better suited to the color schemes.
Each car will be sold with a "certificate of authenticity" and the serial numbers will be kept in a private file at the factory in Crewe, England. Rolls-Royce officials are determined to prevent any fraudulent "conversions" or copies of the car being passed off as genuine.
An additional 75 anniversary cars will be sold in Britain and a third batch of 75 will be sold in other countries.
George Lewis, president of Rolls-Royce Motors Inc., the British company's subsidiary in this country, said he expects these special cars to start arriving in the United States in the Fall. He predicts they will rapidly become collectors's items and will be eagerly sought."

Reading this text and these plaques there must have been three markets where Rolls-Royce celebrated its jubilee, which makes the total of Anniversaries 225. I never found this number in any publication and I never have found a prove that the production of this number of Anniversary cars has ever been realised. In June 2009 I visited the archives in the Hunthouse in Paulerspury, Engeland, and investigated the Anniversaries. I used the Car Specification Sheets and Warranty Acknowledgements to search for them between the numbers 37987 and 38854. Although it is sure that I didn't find 100% of the Anniversary cars and it is not sure that the data I have written down are 100% correct, it gives a good view on how the sales of these special cars must have taken place.

Three different plaques with Anniversary text.

I give you the chassisnumber of the Anniversaries as far as I know them. In the first column you find a counter. In the third column the country is mentioned where the car would be used when new. This country determines the kind of plaque that is present in the cubby box. The signs in the 4th, 5th and 6th column mean:
(1) = United Kingdom customer
(2) = Overseas customer
(3) = Designed in a special colour scheme for the overseas customer.

Number	Chassisnumber	For use in country	(1)	(2)	(3)
1	SRH37987	Great Britain	X
	SRH38036	Great Britain	X
	SRH38062	Great Britain	X
	SRK38076	Verenigde Staten			X
	SRK38078	Verenigde Staten			X
	SRK38083	Verenigde Staten			X
	SRK38087	United States			X
	SRK38089	United States			X
	SRH38097	Great Britain	X
10	SRH38102	Great Britain	X
	SRK38161	United States			X
	SRH38166	Great Britain	X
	SRK38167	United States			X
	SRK38194	United States			X
	SRH38195	Great Britain	X
	SRH38200	Great Britain	X
	SRH38201	Great Britain	X
	SRK38202	United States			X
	SRH38203	Great Britain	X
20	SRK38207	United States			X
	SRK38211	United States			X
	SRH38212	Great Britain	X
	SRK38213	United States			X
	SRH38215	Great Britain	X
	SRK38216	United States			X
	SRH38217	Great Britain	X
	SRH38221	Great Britain	X
	SRK38222	United States			X
	SRH38223	Great Britain	X
30	SRK38224	United States			X
	SRX38225	France		X
	SRH38227	Great Britain	X
	SRK38228	United States			X
	SRH38229	Great Britain	X
	SRH38231	Great Britain	X
	SRH38234	Great Britain	X
	SRH38235	Great Britain	X
	SRK38236	United States			X
	SRH38238	Great Britain	X
40	SRK38239	United States			X
	SRK38241	United States			X
	SRH38242	Great Britain	X
	SRK38244	Hawai			X
	SRH38245	Great Britain	X
	SRK38246	United States			X
	SRH38248	Great Britain	X
	SRK38249	United States			X
	SRH38250	Great Britain	X
	SRH38251	Great Britain	X
50	SRH38253	Great Britain	X
	SRH38255	Great Britain	X
	SRH38257	Great Britain	X
	SRH38279	Great Britain	X
	SRK38280	United States			X
	SRH38281	Great Britain	X
	SRK38283	United States			X
	SRH38284	Great Britain	X
	SRK38287	United States			X
	SRH38288	Great Britain	X
60	SRH38291	Great Britain	X
	SRH38293	Great Britain	X
	SRK38294	United States			X
	SRH38295	Great Britain	X
	SRH38296	Great Britain	X
	SRK38297	United States			X
	SRH38298	Great Britain	X
	SRH38300	Great Britain	X
	SRK38301	United States			X
	SRH38302	Great Britain	X
70	SRH38303	Great Britain	X
	SRH38304	Great Britain	X
	SRH38306	Ireland		X
	SRK38307	United States			X
	SRH38308	Great Britain	X
	SRH38310	Great Britain	X
	SRK38311	United States			X
	SRH38312	Grt Brittannië (Schotland)	X
	SRH38313	Great Britain	X
	SRH38315	Great Britain	X
80	SRK38316	United States			X
	SRH38317	Great Britain	X
	SRK38318	United States			X
	SRK38321	United States			X
	SRK38325	United States			X
	SRH38326	Great Britain	X
	SRH38329	Great Britain	X
	SRH38331	Great Britain	X
	SRH38350	Great Britain	X
	SRH38351	Great Britain	X
90	SRH38354	Great Britain	X
	SRH38358	Great Britain	X
	SRH38359	Great Britain	X
	SRH38361	Great Britain	X
	SRH38363	Great Britain	X
	SRH38365	Great Britain	X
	SRH38366	Australia		X
	SRH38367	Great Britain	X
	SRH38375	Great Britain	X
	SRH38383	Great Britain	X
100	SRX38385	?		X
	SRH38423	Great Britain	X
	SRX38460	Germany		X
	SRX38464	Germany		X
	SRX38495	Netherlands		X
	SRH38496	Isle of Man		X
	SRX38515	?		X
	SRH38537	Ireland		X
	SRX38657	?		X
	SRK38659	United States			X
110	SRK38663	United States			X
	SRK38667	United States			X
	SRH38669	New Zealand		X
	SRK38671	United States			X
	SRK38675	United States			X
	SRK38679	United States			X
	SRK38683	United States			X
	SRH38686	Great Britain	X
	SRK38687	United States			X
	SRK38691	United States			X
120	SRK38695	United States			X
	SRK38699	United States			X
	SRK38703	United States			X
	SRK38706	United States			X
	SRK38708	United States			X
	SRX38709	Bahrain		X
	SRK38711	United States			X
	SRK38713	United States			X
	SRX38714	Bahrain		X
	SRK38716	United States			X
130	SRK38718	United States			X
	SRK38721	United States			X
	SRX38723	Kuwait		X
	SRK38724	United States			X
	SRK38726	United States			X
	SRX38728	Kuwait		X
	SRK38730	United States			X
	SRK38732	United States			X
	SRX38735	Saudi Arabia		X
	SRK38737	United States			X
140	SRK38739	United States			X
	SRX38741	Saudi Arabia		X
	SRK38743	United States			X
	SRK38744	United States			X
	SRX38746	Saudi Arabia		X
	SRK38779	United States			X
	SRK38781	United States			X
	SRX38783	Japan		X
	SRK38785	United States			X
	SRK38788	United States			X
150	SRK38792	United States			X
	SRK38794	United States			X
	SRK38798	United States			X
	SRK38801	Canada			X
	SRK38805	Canada			X
	SRK38807	Canada			X
	SRK38811	Canada			X
	SRK38814	Canada			X
	SRH38850	Hong Kong		X
	SRH38854	Singapore		X
160	JRH50085	Great Britain	X
		Totals	65	22	73

If anyone knows an Anniversary that is not in this list, please contact me. You can find me under the CONTACT-button.

How to read the chassisnumbers is explained on page Chassisnumbers.
The Anniversary Silver Shadow II is also mentioned on the page Silver Shadow II
The Anniversary Camargue is also mentioned on the page Camargue

The only Anniversary Camargue.

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