It is a pushrod engine with overhead valves operated by a single camshaft in the valley between the cylinder banks.

The Phantom III is unusual for its twin ignition systems, with two distributors, two coils and 24 spark plugs.

The car features on-board jacking and a one-shot chassis lubrication system, operated by a lever inside the driver's compartment.

Independent front suspension by a coil spring-based system is complemented by a carryover semi-elliptical spring unit in the rear.

Some of the most famous coachbuilders who produced bodies for Rolls-Royce cars are Barker, Park Ward, Mulliner, Hooper and Thrupp & Maberly.

In 1964, 25 years after the end of production, the villainous Auric Goldfinger (played by Gert Fröbe) was driven by chauffeur Oddjob in a black and yellow Phantom III in the James Bond film Goldfinger, knowing that its great strength would be able to hold the weight of the vast amounts of gold that he smuggled around Europe.