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Rolls-Royce Two-Door by Mulliner Park Ward 1967

Rolls-Royce Motors formed Mulliner Park Ward by the 1961 merger of two of Rolls-Royce subsidiaries: Park Ward of Willesden and H. J. Mulliner & Co. of Chiswick. Mulliner Park Ward continues to operate as the vehicle customisation division of Bentley Motors Limited, the successor of Rolls-Royce Motors. The Corniche was a development of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow with the two door variants of that model marketed as the 'Silver Shadow Mulliner Park Ward' two-door fixedhead coupé; the very handsome coachwork designed by John Polwhele Blatchley. The model was assembled and finished in London at Mulliner Park Ward as continuation of the 1965 Silver Shadow Coupé; the Corniche name was subsequently applied from 1971 for all two-door coupés. It used the standard Rolls-Royce 6750cc engine with an aluminium-silicon alloy block and aluminium cylinder heads with cast iron wet cylinder liners mated to a three-speed automatic transmission from General Motors.