Today in 1924, after nearly 20 years of production, Rolls Royce sold its last Silver Ghost. It was the end of an era in which the British car maker sought to make the finest car in the world at the time and, to many car nuts, they succeeded. Originally named the "40/50 h.p." the chassis was first made at Royce's Manchester, England factory, with production later shifting to Springfield, Mass., for the U.S. market beginning in 1921 and concluding with the last vehicle rolling out the doors in 1926. Famously, it was the last automobile Woodrow Wilson owned (gifted to him by friends shortly before his death), and it once held the title of the world's most valuable car by insurance underwriters, whose value they determined to be $35 million in 2005. It was also the basis of Rolls Royce’s armored car models, which were produced and deployed in squadrons for both world wars and used, most famously, by T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who called them, “more valuable than rubies." Pictured: the 1925 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.
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