We at James Black Restorations Limited are an internationally acclaimed company dedicated to the restoration and maintenance of historic Rolls Royce motorcars, with particular expertise in the side valve 40/50 horse power model, better know as the Silver Ghost type.
We have worked on many examples of this finest of motorcar, and specialise in ground up restorations , with a particular emphasis on the pre World War I chassis.
We have a fully equipped machine shop, with some of the best and most modern lathes and milling machines available.
We have an onsite coach building and fabrication department and can remanufacture virtually any panel, in aluminium or steel.
We have been fortunate to have been associated with many historic and important cars including one of the last remaining Rolls-Royce armoured cars ,and the restoration of chassis number 2224 , one of the two remaining Austrian trial cars from 1913.
We pride ourselves in our attention to historic details, going the extra mile to ensure accuracy and painstaking research is the life’s blood of this kind of work.
We take particular pride in the road going abilities of our restored cars , James Black restored and prepared cars have won glory in the field of long distance vintage and veteran motoring , our cars have driven from the UK to places as diverse as Jerusalem, Amman and Athens we have crossed the Sinai twice, we have driven to the Arctic circle and back, covered Norway, Sweden, Denmark, virtually every country in Europe has been traversed, including the Balkan countries.
Our cars and those of our clients have received many international accolades and awards for endurance.