Rolls-Royce 20HP

SALE NOW AGREED

Characterful, high quality and vintage are all terms which help to sum up this car, which is carriage-like in appearance and very appealing in many ways. The car is correct, excellent structurally with substantial, well fitting doors, cosmetically mature in a positive way, running well, and has given much pleasure to the owner of the last 12 years, who was sad to see it leave. Features include correct 21” wheels with good Dunlop tyres, rear-mounted trunk with fitted suitcases, windscreen divided horizontally and vertically, a nice set of correct instruments and ‘loop’ carriage door handles inside and out, the internal ones being ivory. The engine bay is as it should be, with correct Bakelite ignition lead tube, mushroom top coil, Klaxon horn, etc. Running nicely, driving well, mature cosmetically in a positive way and ready for its next life chapter.

SALENOW AGREED

Chassis No. GRJ49 Reg. No. YX 9574 £45,000.

Snippets: The Hidden Holts
GRJ49 was 1st owned by David Holt of 21 Queen’s Gate in Kensington. Although he lived at an exclusive address nothing can be found out about him!! In 1938 David Holt was still at this location & his neighbours included Dayrell Montague Crackanthorpe (1871/1950) diplomat & at the onset of WWII was British Ambassador to Serbia; Major Anthony Schroeder Orpen stockbroker who in 1916 abandoned the surname Oppenheimer for that of Orpen as did his siblings Ronald & Elsie – it is not known why. His immediate neighbour at Nr 20 was Major R. J Pinto of the Coldstream Guards who was a recipient of the Military Cross in WWI and just down the street were Sir Edward & Lady Beatrice Boyle who shared the house with his mother the Lady Dowager Boyle, in 1915 Sir Edward was the acting British Commissioner to Serbia and was the recipient of the Red Cross & Order of St Slava of Serbia alongside the Order of Skanderberg of Albania. By 1934 the name on the chassis card was that of Mrs D. Holt whose address was 3 Norfolk Street in Park Lane, according to the Royal Red Book in 1938 she & her two daughters were still living here, amongst neighbours both past and present were Jennie Cornwallis-West who from her 1st marriage to Lord Randolph Church was the mother of Winston Churchill; Londonderry House - home to the Vane-Tempest-Stewards related by marriage to the Churchills; the resident of Nr 25 was Sir Philip Sassoon art collector & scion of the Jewish families of Sassoon & Rothschild & brother-in-law of the Marquess of Cholmondeley. By the 20th Century Park Lane (which was originally known as Tyburn Lane & London’s prime execution & hanging location until 1783) had become one of the most desirable street addresses in London as it was in 1845 when it was advertised as “one of the most rechereche in London”.