Park Ward

Park Ward was founded in 1919 by William MacDonald Park and Charles Ward; they had worked together at F.W. Berwick Limited, the makers of Sizaire-Berwick cars. They built their first Rolls-Royce body in 1920. By 1930, 90% of all of Park Ward's efforts were for Rolls-Royce. After the Rolls-Royce take-over of Bentley in 1931, Rolls-Royce took a stake in Park Ward. Beginning in 1933, when they obtained patents, Park Ward developed a technically interesting all-steel saloon in conjunction with Rolls-Royce, and from 1936 offered it on the 4¼-litre Bentley chassis. After World War II, Park Ward continued to produce special coachwork, and the all-steel technology was used by Rolls-Royce to produce a standard body range on its cars, starting with the Bentley Mark VI. Mulliner Park Ward operations were centralised in the former Park Ward factory in Willesden. In 1971, the division was retitled Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. ==Bugatti Royale coachwork==

Captain Cuthbert W. Foster, heir to the Bird's Custard fortune, commissioned Park Ward to build a body onto his newly acquired Bugatti Royale, the fourth one built (chassis number 41-131). Fashioned on a favorite Rolls-Royce he had previously owned, the car is known as the Foster car or Limousine Park-Ward. After being acquired in 1963 by Fritz Schlumpf from American Bugatti collector John Shakespeare, the car now resides at the Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse in France, alongside Ettore Bugatti's personal Royale, the Coupé Napoleon. ==Gallery==

File:Rolls Royce FW 1819.jpg|1928 Rolls-Royce Twenty landaulette File:1937 Bentley 4-14 Litre 6069437050.jpg|1937 4¼-litre Bentley sports saloon File:Park Ward Bentley S1 Continental & R-type Continental DHCs 6068880237.jpg|1956 and 1954 Bentley Continental drophead coupés File:Nationale oldtimerdag Zandvoort 2010, 1960 ALVIS TD 21 PARK WARD CONVERTIBLE pic2.JPG|1960 Alvis TD21 drophead coupé ==References==