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Talk about vintage cars, cars that buy some luxury cars then you may likely mention Rolls Royce.

Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is a lover of vintage cars. According to reports, he is said to have vintage cars in his garage to cost about 2 billion naira in value. These sets of cars are passed to him by his father who loves and buys them during his lifetime.

Not many people know that Emir of Kano's 1952 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith is the ONLY Silver Wraith in the world customized with unique elliptical, grasshopper eye-like headlamps with dual beam reflectors. An account has it that three of them (for Sultan of Sokoto and Emirs of Kano and Katsina) were bought by the Native Authority for Queen Elizabeth's 1956 visit to Nigeria.

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This customized edition, which is the only surviving one among the said three, was sent to Kano for the Queen's visit. After the Queen's visit, the car was added to the fleet of the then emir, Muhammadu Sanusi (the grandfather of the present emir). In a strange twist, the car was seized from the emirate fleet and taken to Government House after deposition of the emir in April 1963.

Military governors of Kano State, CP Audu Bako and Col. Sani Bello as well as the first civilian governor of the state, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, all used the car during ceremonies. When Sabo Bakinzuwo was elected governor in 1983, he returned the car to the emirate, arguing that the car suited the Royals more than the politicians.

In 2005, during the reign of Emir Ado Bayero, the car was air-freighted to England and fully restored at the cost of 50,000 pounds.

A look at the engine shows that it has a straight six-cylinder postwar engine, which had been briefly made for the aborted by war Bentley Mark V, replaced conventional overhead valve gear with an F-head configuration of overhead inlet valves and side exhaust valves and reshaped combustion chambers. There were new main and big-end bearings and a more efficient drive to the timing gear. To this prewar mix, Rolls-Royce added chromed bores.

Initially, this engine retained the Mark V's capacity of 4,257 cc (259.8 cu in) increased from 1951 to 4,566 cc (278.6 cu in) and in 1955, after the introduction of the (standard wheelbase) Silver Cloud, to 4,887 cc (298.2 cu in) for the remaining Silver Wraiths. It has a capacity of 4,566 cc; from 1954 bore x stroke 95.25 x 114.3 mm (3 3/4 x 4 1/2 in), capacity 4,887 cc); cast iron cylinder block, aluminium alloy cylinder head, Stromberg carburettor (from 1951 Zenith carburettor, from 1956 twin SU carburettors); single dry plate clutch; 4-speed gearbox (from 1952 4-speed automatic gearbox optional), hypoid bevel final drive, independent front suspension with coil springs, semi-elliptic springs rear; drum brakes servo-assisted; wheelbase 3,225.8 mm (127 in)(from 1951 wheelbase 3,378.2 mm (133 in); tyre size 6.50 x 17 (from 1951 tyre size 6.50 x 16, for export cars tyre size 7.50 x 16 optional, for long wheelbase cars standard).

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Credit:
Jaafar!

Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/03/see-vintage-car-queen-elizabeth-rode.html

Lovely, a beauty to behold

See more photos here

https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/03/see-vintage-car-queen-elizabeth-rode.html

Still better than lalasticlalala 2002 EOD

Ok

Northerners spending our wealth anyhow

Still managing my papa inherited 1982 bluebird.

.IS THIS POST ABOUT QUEEN LIZZY

OR ABOUT THE EMIR OF KANO

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Nigeria of old, people of yesterday years
I wonder how living was at the time

Nubar Gulbenkian's Rolls Royce

Very beautiful

Why is Nairaland repeating thread tlike this?

While millions of guys are struggling to hit front page even when their posts are rich in content and technique.

Good car!! y'all already late!

Old money

grayht:
Still better than lalasticlalala 2002 EOD

no kill me with laugh

How many times will we see this on FrontPage?

grayht:
Still better than lalasticlalala 2002 EOD

show us your bicycle

vintage cars for me are dope

wow

miracood:
.IS THIS POST ABOUT QUEEN LIZZY

OR ABOUT THE EMIR OF KANO

It is about Buhari sending Obi and Atiku back to sender and their delusional supporters finally running mad on Nairaland. Hahahaha

Nice one

Please verify very well because Forbes says it's Louis Odimegwu the father of Ojukwus rolls Royce that was used. Read below

Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen’s visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce – apparently the only one in the country at the time – on the request of the colonial administration.

Profiled in September 1965 by TIME magazine, Ojukwu made his money by importing dried fish for resale, and diversifying into textiles, cement and transport. When he died a year later, his wealth was an estimated $4 billion in today’s economic value.


https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/

Autojosh , when next I travel to Jos city in plateau state, I will take the photo of the actual vehicle for you, its at Jos Museum fenced with barb wire and the first locomotive train with steam engine in Nigeria

Class!

where is the car now.

grayht:
Still better than lalasticlala 2002 EOD

Lmao.

But history said that no Nigerian had a car worthy of a queen, they had to borrow Ojukwu's car. Check well oo

Techwriter:
Please verify very well because Forbes says it's Louis Odimegwu the father of Ojukwus rolls Royce that was used. Read below

Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen’s visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce – apparently the only one in the country at the time – on the request of the colonial administration.

Profiled in September 1965 by TIME magazine, Ojukwu made his money by importing dried fish for resale, and diversifying into textiles, cement and transport. When he died a year later, his wealth was an estimated $4 billion in today’s economic value.


https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/

Depot:
But history said that no Nigerian had a car worthy of a queen, they had to borrow Ojukwu's car. Check well oo

phoenix90:
That car belongs to Sir Louis Ojukwu, it is still parked in his commercial building at Apapa. The sad news is that it rusting and decaying without care. Go see it for yourself at 1/3 creek road Apapa. Nnewi building

The queen used several Rolls Royces when she came to Nigeria. She used the Royal Rolls Royce in Lagos, Ibadan and parts of Port Harcourt. It broke down in Port Harcourt. I suspect that this is when she used Sir Louis Phillipe Odumegwu Ojukwu's Rolls Royce to tour the east (Port Harcourt, Enugu, etc).

She used the Emir of Kano's Rolls Royce (in the picture above), which previously belonged to Nubar Gulbenkian, to tour Northern Nigeria (Kano, Kaduna, Jos, etc).


In my view, Gulbenkian was a madman, but he was a billionaire and so he could do almost anything that he wanted. He designed some crazy Rolls Royces, including one that looks like a tank. The Rolls Royce company were not happy about his designs, but they couldn't do anything about it.

Gulbenkian designed this Rolls Royce. It is a Silver Wraith, but it is the only Silver Wraith in the world that has this type of lights. He then sold it to the Emir of Kano shortly after he made it.