Classic car cold cases: the search for a 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost used by Lawrence of Arabia
The mystery of a blue Rolls requisitioned by T.E. Lawrence during the First World War is investigated by a retired Scotland Yard detective
17 April 2021 • 6:33am
Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (right) in what is believed to the Rolls that is the subject of this investigation, in Damascus in October 1918. The car was bought new by a man who perished on the Titanic and eventually found its way to Cairo, where Lawrence commandeered it to use as a support vehicle for his armoured car force. It then disappeared, with scant evidence of its fate