page_title: H. J. Mulliner & Co.
section_title: Henry Jervis Mulliner
hierarchical_section_title: H. J. Mulliner & Co. / Henry Jervis Mulliner
caption_attribution_description: Rolls-Royce short-chassis Phantom II 7.7 litre Weymann saloon body by H J Mulliner This body retains the original fabric covering
context_page_description: H. J. Mulliner & Co. was a well-known British coachbuilder operating from Bedford Park, Chiswick, West London. The company which owned it was formed by H J Mulliner in 1897 but the business was a continuing branch of a family business founded in Northampton in the 1760s to hire out carriages. In December 1909 the controlling interest in this company passed to John Croall & Sons of Edinburgh. Croall sold that interest to Rolls-Royce in 1959.
  "Mulliner" is now the personal commissioning department for Bentley.
context_section_description: Henry Jervis Mulliner (1870–1967), born in Liverpool but raised in Chiswick, was the second son of Robert Bouverie Mulliner (1830–1902) from Northampton, third son of Francis Mulliner (1789–1841) of Leamington Spa and Northampton. Robert Bouverie Mulliner had first established a thriving coachbuilding business in Liverpool in the mid 1850s then sold that to his brother and in the early 1870s started another in Chiswick on the outskirts of London.
  His son H J Mulliner incorporated his own company in 1897 while with Mulliner London Limited. He found a special interest in the automobile side of that business and expanded in 1900 by buying from Mulliner London Limited the Mulliner showroom in Brook Street, Mayfair, London. The location was more convenient for his clients than Chiswick. One of the early clients was C.S. Rolls who had a body built on a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost for his own use.
caption: 4-door 4-light lightweight Weymann construction sports saloon 1929
  on a Rolls-Royce Phantom II chassis
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