Classics and Karosserie beauties
Adams (of London Rolls-Royce dealers Adams and Oliver) and then by Captain Frederick Henry, a wealthy antiques dealer from Gloucestershire and a car loving bon vivant. He exchanged his Bugatti Royale for the flamboyant Rolls-Royce through Simmons of Park Lane, London. The Royale (the Binder-bodied coupe de ville) was a car he had been using as a regular driver throughout England and to France, being both UK and French registered, sometimes to his own embarrassment. Despite enjoying the Royale to its fullest, albeit in economically challenged England, the shortage of petrol for a car doing 5 miles to the gallon, and the costs to maintain a car that was increasingly difficult to get replacement parts for, such as tires, became tiresome.
This unique car was shipped to America and its successive owners were D.I. Buchanan, Robert P. Meyerhoff of Pasadena, and George Raninoff. In 1985, 2 MS was then purchased by a Englishman living in Bombay , the car underwent its most extensive restoration and at the Rolls-Royce Owners Club National Meet in Monterey, CA, in 1991 was a 'Chief Judges Choice' winner. At the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 1992 it captured the Lucius Beebe Memorial Trophy, awarded to the Rolls-Royce considered most in the tradition of Lucius Beebe, who served as a judge in the early years.
Through a strange twist of fate, I met the owner inOmay
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Read MoreThis unique car was shipped to America and its successive owners were D.I. Buchanan, Robert P. Meyerhoff of Pasadena, and George Raninoff. In 1985, 2 MS was then purchased by a Englishman living in Bombay , the car underwent its most extensive restoration and at the Rolls-Royce Owners Club National Meet in Monterey, CA, in 1991 was a 'Chief Judges Choice' winner. At the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 1992 it captured the Lucius Beebe Memorial Trophy, awarded to the Rolls-Royce considered most in the tradition of Lucius Beebe, who served as a judge in the early years.
Through a strange twist of fate, I met the owner inOmay
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