Rolls-Royce 25/30 HP (1938)

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A very bright & cheerful car, smartly presented in black & yellow, with excellent black leather interior, and black hood & tonneau cover, with recently made side screens. The body is attractive, well-built, and lightweight, giving an impressive performance with the 25/30 engine, which runs well, and the car drives nicely. An appropriate, horizontally-divided windscreen, twin side-mounted spare wheels, an impressive array of correct lamps & long-trumpet horns & an appealing registration number all add to the car's appeal.


Chassis No. GAR44 Reg No. BUS 605 £42,500.

Snippets: The wealthy widow
GAR44 was purchased by a wealthy widow Mrs. Theresa Uzielli Faber of Drumfork, Blacklunans. Theresa was the youngest daughter of Samuel & Mary Laing whose family fortune was started by her grandfather Samuel Laing (1780/1868) in the kelp & herring industry in the Orkneys; Samuel Laing Jr (1812/97) branched out into politics, the railway industry, banking, steel works which increased the family’s wealth to the extent that when he died in 1897 he left £96,000 which would be approximately £65million today!. Theresa (1855/1943) was first married to Arthur Byass whose father had been partner in the Gonzalez Byass Sherry firm with Arthur retaining a large stake in the firm after his father’s death. Theresa & Arthur Byass married in a double wedding ceremony with her eldest sister Cecilia & Charles Colin Macrae in July 1877 with the service conducted by Rev Robert Liddell. Cecilia & Charles had two sons who both lost their lives during WWI, Theresa & Arthur had two daughters Mary & Kathleen who also had a double wedding ceremony when Mary wed James Mason and Kathleen wed Douglas Knyvett Courage in May 1904. Theresa’s 1st husband Arthur Byass died in 1910 leaving an estate of £53,000, in 1915 Theresa married Major Walter Vavasour Faber MP & brewer whose father Charles Wilson Faber (1813/78) was an industrialist with interests in rubber, shipping, railways & he even had a plan for a tunnel across the Dover Straits!! Theresa’s new family included Bankers, MPs, Brewers (Walter Faber had known Arthur Byass via the brewing industry), book publishers, Clergymen and the Sackville-Wests. Major Faber died in 1928 leaving an estate of £62,000 & by the time that Theresa Faber died in 1943 her estate had increased to a staggering £480,000. In the 1960s GAR44 was with Robert M. Loudan a 2nd generation funeral director – his father, also Robert had the 1st motorised hearse in Armagh - back in 1914! GAR44 was garaged at the Imperial Hotel, Seven Houses in Armagh – the name Seven Houses is taken from the 7 houses that were built by John Averell, Bishop of Limerick who built 7 houses for his sisters as he did not want them to own their own!

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