1994 RANGE ROVER LSE LIMOUSINE - SILVERSTONE AUCTIONS NEC Classic Car Show Sale NEC, Birmingham West Midlands Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th November 2019

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NEC Classic Car Show Sale

NEC, Birmingham West Midlands

Saturday 9th 

& Sunday 10th November 2019

1994 RANGE ROVER LSE LIMOUSINE

Chassis number:

SALLHBM33MA648288

# of cylinders:

8

Transmission:

Automatic

Engine capacity:

4275

Body colour:

Black

LHD/RHD:

Right-hand Drive

Registration number:

L23 PWT

Model:

Range Rover

Engine number:

40D09761B

Interior colour:

Black/Red

Odometer Reading:

16800

miles

• Originally commissioned by the Sultan of Brunei for his younger brother, Prince Jefri, and reputedly cost around £135,000
• Finished in Rolls-Royce Mason Black over black-piped Oxblood Connolly hide with Wilton carpeting and Burr Walnut embellishment
• In June 2000, L23 PWT enjoyed its own 15 minutes of fame when it was used to ferry World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson around Glasgow when he fought at Hampden Park (press cuttings on file)
• Subsequently passed to an owner in Denmark in January 2008
• Since returning to the UK, the vehicle has been re-registered on its original registration L23 PWT and has been looked after by Range Rover specialists Bishop's Heritage 

The 1994 stretched limousine Range Rover offered here is the work of one of the best-known conversion companies of the time Townley Cross Country Vehicles Ltd., who were responsible for converting several hundred examples, many of them tailored to the specific requirements of wealthy Middle Eastern clients.

Based on an end-of-the-line, soft-dash 1994 Range Rover Classic LSE, a desirable model in its own right, it took nine months to build and was originally commissioned by the Sultan of Brunei for his younger brother, Prince Jefri. At a reputed cost of around £135,000, Townley stretched the chassis and body by 40″, incorporating two additional fixed Range Rover doors in the centre and a roof raised by 8″. They also installed a laminated sunroof together with darkened windows and a one-piece opening tailgate. Interior features include a full electric centre division with glass panel; three rear seats (two electrically operated); full air conditioning; stereo/CD player and two remote control 8″ television monitors with a VHS recorder.

The exterior was painted in Rolls-Royce Mason Black and the interior trimmed in black-piped Oxblood Connolly hide with Wilton carpeting and Burr Walnut embellishments.

In June 2000, L23 PWT enjoyed its own 15 minutes of fame when it was used to ferry World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson around Glasgow when he fought at Hampden Park (press cuttings on file). At that time, it was reported that the car had covered 10,000 miles from new and was being offered for sale by the Glasgow Car Company. The vehicle passed to an owner in Denmark in January 2008, but since returning to the UK, it has returned to its original registration L23 PWT and been looked after by Range Rover experts Bishop’s Heritage.

Properly engineered by a renowned specialist and in pristine condition, having covered just an indicated 16,800 miles, this striking vehicle would be ideal for corporate ventures and promotional events or taking your extended family out to lunch.

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1937 Rolls-Royce Wraith Limousine Project - .BONHAMS AUCTIONS The Beaulieu SaleCollectors' Motor Cars & Motorcycles and Automobilia Saturday 7th September 2019 Beaulieu, National Motor Museum

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Saturday 7th September 2019

Beaulieu, National Motor Museum

1937 Rolls-Royce Wraith Limousine Project

Registration no. RC 4624

Chassis no. WXA5

Footnotes

• Development of the pre-war 'small' Rolls-Royce, which had begun in 1922 with the introduction of the 20hp, culminated in 1938 with the arrival of the Wraith. Replacement for the 25/30hp model, the Wraith retained its predecessor's engine dimensions for a capacity of 4,257cc, but almost every other aspect of its overhead-valve, six-cylinder engine was new, the most obvious difference being the adoption of a superior, cross-flow cylinder head, first seen on the 4¼-Litre Bentley. This extensively revised power unit was mounted in an equally new chassis. Like that of its larger sibling, the Phantom III, the Wraith's frame featured cruciform bracing and independent front suspension based on a General Motors design. It need hardly be stated that the Wraith improved on its predecessor's already high standards of silence and smoothness, though the benefits of the new engine's extra horsepower were largely offset by heavier coachwork. Sadly, production was curtailed by the outbreak of WW2 after just 491 cars had been built.
  
  
  The fifth production chassis completed which is believed to be one of just 7 in this configuration, was purchased as a restoration project around eight years ago from the Realcar Co, Wales and has remained in dry storage since acquisition. The engine has been rebuilt but the car has not been run in as the electrics need rewiring – it does however run. Offered for re-commissioning/restoration and sold strictly as viewed, the car comes with copy chassis cards, a logbook, and a Certificate of Title.

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1908 Napier 45hp Type 23 Six-Cylinder Open Drive Limousine -.BONHAMS AUCTIONS The Beaulieu SaleCollectors' Motor Cars & Motorcycles and Automobilia Saturday 7th September 2019 Beaulieu, National Motor Museum

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Saturday 7th September 2019

Beaulieu, National Motor Museum

The ex-Ivor Read
1908 Napier 45hp Type 23 Six-Cylinder Open Drive Limousine
Coachwork by Burlington Carriage Co
Registration no. LD 3218
Chassis no. 4160

* Outstanding museum-quality Edwardian motor car
* Known ownership history from new
* Long-term single-family ownership 1914 to 2002
* Extensive sympathetic mechanical conservation in recent years

 "Napier's list of customers, like the passenger list of the Titanic, recalls all the thundery afternoon sunlight of Edwardian England. Here is ancient landed wealth: here is the recent profit of industry and finance: here are the rich Radical politicians. Here is a memory of the days when there were forty servants below stairs at Longleat, when Sir William Lever, vastly rich on soap, could say he was 'in love with petrol'."
How well Charles Wilson and William Reader in Men and Machines - A History of D Napier & Son, Engineers, Ltd summarised the background against which Mr Ernest Johann Wicke ordered his new Napier Limousine in 1908. Legend has it that he bought the car after it had won major accolades at a London motor show. Wicke lived at Rochester House, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent and maintained a 'sufficient' household, similar to many other Napier customers. His magnificent new limousine, supplied by S F Edge Ltd of 14 New Burlington Street, London, was delivered on 23rd December 1908 and Wicke was to keep the car until 1914. Wicke cherished his Napier, insisting that a Napier motor engineer be provided to drive and maintain the car to the highest standards. He built a substantial motor house for his chauffeur, Percy Frederick Mosely, fronted by a glass canopy under which Mosely could dry off the car after a wet journey, before parking it inside. This property survived in Westgate-on-Sea until comparatively recently.
In 1914 the car was purchased by Ivor Read's father, who retained Mosely's services as a chauffeur. Mosely taught Ivor to drive on the car, which remained in active service until 1925. Correspondence on file indicates that it nearly slipped out of family ownership in 1929 in a part-exchange deal with the Invicta Motor Engineering Works Ltd involving a Ford. Ivor forestalled his father's deal, and the car was thereafter carefully preserved until Ivor's death in 2001. During that period it made local appearances, being exhibited at the Napier Centenary gathering in 1958 and on other notable occasions. In 1979, during Ivor Read's ownership, the Napier was featured in Automobile Quarterly (Volume 17, No 3). Various photographs and papers before and during Ivor Read's ownership are available together with an Instruction Book for Napier Cars, provided by S F Edge Ltd in 1912.
Having rebuilt Ivor Read's larger sporting Napier during Ivor's lifetime, VSCC former treasurer Bill Fone purchased 'LD 3218' from his estate at Bonhams' RAF Museum Hendon Sale in April 2002 (Lot 917). With assistance from Bill May, an engineer apprenticed at Napiers, 'LD 3218' was returned to roadworthy condition without removing the body from the chassis. The engine bearings were satisfactory but the oil pump worn, so repaired. All mechanical work on the chassis and running gear was entrusted to Arthur Archer of Great Dunmow, Essex, who also reproduced the fuel tank and exhaust system. Wheels were rebuilt, brake shoes and drums replaced, patterns made to cast a new water pump, and the electric telegraph from the passenger compartment to the driver repaired. The silk roller blinds have been replaced.
The 6.0-litre engine provides easy performance, geared at around 38mph per 1,000 revolutions. The sprag facility on the transmission engaged by a handle beside the gear lever has been disconnected. Arthur Archer has provided a manual of information and operation of the car to match Mosely's Manual.
Ranking highly amongst the most original surviving formal Edwardian motor cars, 'LD 3218' has stood the test of time remarkably well. The wings were probably changed in the late Edwardian or early Vintage era, a common updating modification, and a later Zenith carburettor is fitted, again a practical improvement for better performance probably carried out at the same time. The body represents state-of-the-art coachbuilding of its era, being a D-front open-drive limousine of most elegant proportions with every comfort provided in the enclosed rear compartment. Unusually, the coachwork widens aft of the rear doors, and the commodious parlour-like interior is superbly furnished with pleated and buttoned cloth upholstery, generously affixed with pasting lace and door furnishings including ivory pulls and handles. There are silk blinds affording privacy to all the rear windows with provision for curtains to the D-windows on the glass division. Passenger comforts include map pockets, smoker's companions, newspaper nets to the roof, passenger sling pulls to each rear window, interior courtesy light and, most remarkably, an S F Edge electrical indicator to convey remote instructions to the chauffeur. The quality of the upholstery and furnishings to the rear is second to none. The chauffeur's compartment features fuel and oil pressure gauges, the chauffeur's instruction indicator, clock mounting, and an Elliott speedometer and mileage/time indicator. The dashboard accommodates the coil box. Driving equipment includes a side-mounted spare wheel, a coiled bulb horn, Napier oil side lamps and S F Edge Ltd Napier acetylene headlamps.
In 2014, it having proved impossible to find reproductions of the Napier's large core radiator tubes in the UK, the core was replicated in New Zealand, and the radiator entirely dismantled, repaired and re-plated through Auto Restorations in Christchurch. By this time, expenditure on the car since its purchase in 2002 had totalled £98,500. Now reliably mobile again, the Napier has taken part in Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge and similar Edwardian-set TV productions. The car is accompanied by its own tools, Napier tyre pump, acetylene tank, VCC plate, and a copy of the T23 chassis drawings. The summary of the mechanical restoration works is on file, supported by detailed records plus a CD of photographs recording the work at Archer's. A copy of the book Men and Machines will be provided with the car.
'LD 3218' also comes with a copy of the registration book issued in March 1921, a tax disc from 1925, a copy VCC Dating Certificate issued in 1960, MoT certificates, sundry bills, and correspondence from its distinguished past. Rarely do cars of such outstanding museum-quality, originality, and exceptional history of long ownership come to the open market, and yet this is also a car well capable of undertaking any motor tour.

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