Burmese Rolls Royce mystery

An old photo of a Rolls, that seems interesting. And a Rolls that is used by the Prince of Wales makes it even better. This photo is sent in by family of the former owner. He wrote: "I wish to share this family photograph of my Great-grandfather's (in the back seat) Rolls Royce, in Burma (Myanmar) circa 1935/36. I know a little about the car, a 40/50hp as far as I know, with bright red bodywork. Apparently the car had previously been used by the Prince of Wales for his visits to the colonies under the Delhi-based British rule.
There are stories of the car being commandeered by the Burmese troops during the Japanese invasion during WW2. The destiny of this car in unknown, other than stories of it being lost in the Burmese jungle during or after the fighting, though this is unconfirmed. We would love to know more about this car, the model, coach builder etcetera.

As a final point, as well as my great-grandfather, my grandmother sits by the radiator grill, my young aunts are sitting in the car, and my then five or six-year-old now late father looking somewhat bored on the running board".

Who can help confirm what car it is and perhaps what happened to it?
Have a happy Monday!

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domenica luglio 2nd, 2017

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08 Luglio 2017, 01:21

It is a Twenty, with archetypal Open Tourer body, one of the options of semi-standardised coachwork available from the brochure, in this case usually supplied by Barker,with is own telegram type name, so it could be ordered from the factory directly, usually due to delivered through a retailer, if there was one. This model was available from 1922 until the second half of the Twenties, by which time it would have been fairly old fashioned. Obviously this car could also have been brought over by an English family posted to the area in a colonial duty to the Realm, or as a used car suitable for the weather. By the time the picture was taken it certainly had oversized tyres

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04 Luglio 2017, 02:19

I'm going with a late 20 also. Looks to me like the radiator louvers are horizontal? Short bonnet etc......

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03 Luglio 2017, 14:09

Looking at the length of the bonnet, this appears to be a small HP car (20HP or 20/25 perhaps) rather than a Silver Ghost or Phantom (40/50HP).

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03 Luglio 2017, 07:08

Looks like a late 20HP or a very early 20-25, no louvres in bonnett, period Karl Zeiss spot, its on triple spoke wellbase wheels not straight sided ,& I think i can see a front drop shackle, which would indicate front brakes fitted, 1929 is my guess.

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03 Luglio 2017, 06:52

very short bonnet on this car and not very high the lady at the back is almost as tall it must be a twenty H.P.

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02 Luglio 2017, 23:34

A fairly late Silver Ghost, I would say, because it appears to have brakes only on the back wheels.

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