'his Ghost will run and run
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e Ghost ran for the first time >aturday," said a voice with ify concealed excitement as I the telephone receiver. It
not the family butler an:ing that the apparition of e Boleyn had broken into a at Hawk Castle. It was my id David Martin, the Road lage Association's dynamic linistration officer, telling Df the climax to two and half rs' restoration work on a .0 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost ;ued from a demeaning
existence on a Kent farm.
The first time the electric starter (a Rolls-Royce innovation in 1919) was pressed the engine fired and ran for about five seconds. After it died out a second time David discovered a fault in the carburettor and when he lifted the float-chamber piston by hand the engine ran silently for some ten minutes.
There were no leaks, vibration or rattles, and the oil pressure of 16psi was well within the prescribed limits of 5-20psi "It
has a hell of a compression," said David, who thinks a 20stone gorilla would probably be needed to turn the starting handle.
The carburettor and airpressure fuel-feed system from the rear tank are mechanical items needing attention but the main work still to be done concerns the body. In another year a magnificent open tourer will take the road and David's pint tankard will be full to overflowing.