Park Ward

Park Ward was a British coachbuilder in 1919 by William M. Park and Charles W. Ward, together with FW Berwick Ltd.. had worked, was founded. The company was based in Willesden (North London). In 1961 she went on in a newly established company Mulliner Park Ward.

Company History

After the company had made ​​in the early 1920s bodies for a number of cars, it was combined especially with Bentley. 1922 Rolls-Royce asked if they refused to participate in the construction of standard bodies for the little 20hp model. Although the project was not carried out, but they built such bodies for Rolls- Royce customers who exhibited a 40/50hp-Modell at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. From the mid- 1920s, the company focused on Bentley and Rolls- Royce models.

1933 Rolls- Royce bought shares in Park Ward, and after the acquisition of Bentley by Rolls- Royce, the company was the first choice for Bentley customers who wanted a body for her car. All-steel bodies were introduced in 1936 in addition to the bodies in Gemischtbauseise. 1939 Rolls- Royce purchased the remaining shares of Park Ward and the company made ​​it a 100 per cent subsidiary.

After the Second World War, Park Ward continued to build special bodies in all-steel construction and was used by Rolls- Royce to build the plant bodies of their cars from the Bentley Mark VI.

1961 Rolls- Royce merged the brand with the newly acquired company HJ Mulliner & Co. to Mulliner Park Ward. The shops were summarized in the factory in Willesden and you put forth the bodies for vehicles such as the Rolls- Royce Phantom V and the Bentley S3 Continental, the latter a further development of a Park Ward design that was finally available as a Rolls- Royce ..

In the 1990s, Rolls- Royce Park Ward newly revived the name for special versions of the Silver Spirit and Silver Seraph.