Park Ward

Rolls Royce · on record 1997 to 2025

Park Ward was a historic British coachbuilder closely associated with Rolls Royce, and the name later appeared on long wheelbase and special body models. A registration carrying Park Ward therefore identifies coachbuilt or extended luxury heritage rather than 1 simple mass production car. Exact interpretation depends on age, but these vehicles were expensive and rare from new, giving surviving examples strong incentives for preservation and specialist restoration.

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.

5 licensed vehicles
2025 census

45.5% of the peak fleet remains licensed

declared SORN

total surviving

peak 11 in 2002 · −1 vehicles a year, five year trend

Population history

Licensed and SORN vehicles at each census. The filters below apply to the family population, MOT and registration figures. They do not alter the generation history above.

Licensed SORN Latest census observation SOURCE DVLA VEH0120 / VEH0220

At the average decline recorded over the latest five years, the licensed fleet would reach zero around 2030.

Illustrative projection only; vehicle populations rarely decline linearly. Late fleets typically flatten as surviving examples enter preservation.

Inside the surviving fleet

AutoCensus parses every DVLA variant description, so the fleet can be read by fuel and specification rather than as one number.

First registrations by year

When surviving examples first joined the British fleet.

Recent UK first registrations

This family is no longer sold new. These figures are imports and historic vehicles joining the British register for the first time.

MOT reliability

DVSA test results for this family, 2005 to 2025.

Pass rate by year

Failure reason	Failures	Share of all tests
The calculated parking brake efficiency is too low	8	2.2%
A wiper blade insecure, missing or in such a condition that it does not clear the windscreen effectively to give the driver an adequate view of the road (through the windscreen) to the left and right sides of the vehicle, as well as to the front	8	2.2%
Significant braking effort recorded on a road wheel, even though the brake is not applied, indicating that a brake is binding	5	1.3%
Restricted free movement of brake components	4	1.1%
A rear registration plate lamp with any lamp not working	4	1.1%
A tyre has a cut the length of which is in excess of 25 mm or 10% of section width, whichever is greater, deep enough to reach the ply or cords	4	1.1%
A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc	4	1.1%
Significant braking effort recorded on a road wheel, even though the brake is not applied, indicating that a brake is binding	4	1.1%

Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.

Where the Park Ward remains

Based on MOT test locations, 2025. Test location is a proxy: a vehicle is counted where it was last tested, not where it is kept.

Postcode area	Vehicles tested	Pass rate
PR	2	50%
LE	1	100%
DN	1	100%
CM	1	100%
CB	1	100%
DY	1	100%
SW	1	100%
BD	1	100%
BA	1	100%

How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025

POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual

HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013

MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025

FAMILY DEFINITIONROLLS ROYCE PARK WARD

PROCESSED20 Sep 2026

Full methodology

Population history combines DVLA VEH0120 Q4 census observations through 2013 with the annual VEH0220 census from 2014 onward. Figures before 2014 cover Great Britain only. Historical VEH0120 is used only when its overlapping UK observations reconcile to the current canonical family definition. Vehicles are grouped into this family using the DVLA GenModel together with durable routing rules for known inconsistencies.

Variant figures are parsed from raw DVLA model descriptions and the original string is always retained. Configuration is only assigned where the model description explicitly identifies it; a blank configuration is not treated as a two door Wrangler. Blank transmission fields are shown as manual because DVLA records the field for automatic vehicles.

MOT figures count tests, not vehicles, and geographic figures count each vehicle at its most recent test location. The decline projection is a straight line fitted to the latest five years and is illustrative only.