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I like this one. # 3AZ24

It is just a pity about the colour, the wide white sidewall tyres, and the loss of the wheel discs..

Some more Barker bodied Phantom III

The cars in Rob's latest post are, in order: 3CP10, 3BT157, 3CM55, 3CM5, 3AZ176, 3AZ24, 3AZ92.

Excelent! Thank you both, fantastic to have you here

You're right of course.

BTW the car before last is the cream car in its original colour scheme
3CP10, 1937 Saloon with division, body 7248, for Col.F. Colman, after Trials, DYX870
3BT157, removed here, as this is a second body, by Park Ward.
3CM55, 1937 Landaulette, body 7345, for Lady Fairhaven
3CM5, 1937 Saloon with division, body 7358, for S.G. Lingard
3AZ176, removed as by H.J.Mulliner
3AZ24, 1936, Sedanca de Ville, body 7098, for Ernest Thornton-Smith
3AZ92, 1936, Sedanca de Ville, body 7154, for 2nd Earl Beatty
Sorry about the mistakes, mea culpa, I was too hasty.

3AZ92 ad with a little ps work by me

I didn't get it. The same car with different bodies? Or two different cars owned by the Duke of Kent?

3AZ178 first body. Second body by Thrupp & Maberly. Is it correct?

Some other Barker PH III

These pictures are from Jamie at Flickr Hope he don't mind, they're beautiful.

Re Aymami's post: I didn't get it. The same car with different bodies? Or two different cars owned by the Duke of Kent?

Two totally different cars- the saloon with division 3AZ43 is the Duke of Kent's car. The second one is a grey sedanca de ville by Hooper, chassis number 3CP200.

Yes, second body a cabriolet by Thrupp & Maberly, put on the chassis in 1938 and sold to the Maharaja of Darbhanga in India. He had already ordered one Phantom III, a landaulette by Thrupp & Maberly on chassis 3BU50, and was impatient to get an open PIII, so he bought this car second hand, had the Barker body scrapped and a nice cabriolet built on it.

Nice to have the money to do that back in the late 1930s!

Thank you Rob!

Nice to get praise, but perhaps it was Steve you were referring to

3BU190 returned from the USA as an unspoiled car, and its discerning owner chose wisely to keep it in restrained colours to get a very pleasing result.Shown here with a US dealer, the UK dealer Real Car Company and winning 2nd prize in its class on the 2011 Annual Rally.
1937, Saloon with division, body 7245, for Conduit Street Sales Trials, and subsequently to W.G.Weston.

Very much the standardised Enclosed Drive Six Light Limousine, this car was started by Barker but in fact finished by Hooper, who had taken over Barker and were slowly killing in off in the late thirties (but revived it under different management in the forties for Daimler production). This apparently is very low mileage car, which in spite of doing time in the USA escaped without harm except for the wide whitewall tyres which it now has lost. Supplied ex Watson, dealer in Liverpool, to H.D.Clark in February 1938, chassis 3CM161. Up for auction in the UK.

Another shot of #3CM55 delivered new to Lady Fairhaven (Cara Leland Rogers Broughton) in 1937.
According to the chassiscard it was supposed to be a Sedanca de Ville body, was it rebuild later in life? The roofline does look a bit strange.

No, 3CM55 has always been a landaulette. Here is the original Barker photo. Sometimes buyers changed their minds in the body style they wanted, after the coachbuilder told RR what sort of body they were going to put on a chassis.