Lot details Registration No: BF 4575 Chassis No: GDP63 Mot Expiry: Exempt
- Matching numbers car
- Originally specified with a long list of unusual features
- Sporting Weymann bodywork opening windscreen and sunroof.
Originally owned by G.Geoffrey Smith of Autocar magazine who purchased a new Rolls-Royce each year and featured them regulary in Autocar magazine.
A purchase invoice is on file from Jack Barclay Ltd in 1938 to the second owner, Sir Arthur George Murchison Fletcher, KCMG, CBE ,Eleventh Governor of Trinidad and Tobago , Born in 1878 , Died in 1954. Served as a British colonial administrator.
He was Acting Governor of British Ceylon from 1927 to 1928.
Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific from 22nd November 1929 to 28th November 1936. Governor of Trinidad and Tobago from 1936 to 1938
- Maintaining its policy of offering one 'Large' and one 'Small' model (the terms being purely relative), Rolls-Royce introduced the 20/25 in 1929 as a successor to the outgoing 20. Though the newcomer was aimed at owner drivers, many examples were sold to customers with chauffeurs. Power came from an enlarged version of the straight-six unit used in the 20. Now of 3,699cc, it made for swifter acceleration and a higher top speed of up to 75mph. The four-speed manual gearbox featured the manufacturer's traditional righthand change and was equipped with synchromesh on the top two ratios from 1932 onwards. The substantial chassis sported rigid axles front and rear suspended on semi-elliptic leaf springs. The four-wheeled braking was mechanically servo assisted. Bodywork for the 20/25, was to the taste of the customer, and Gurney Nutting, Park Ward, Thrupp & Maberly, Mulliner and Hooper were among the many coachbuilders selected to clothe these fine cars , Weymann being extremely rare and highly desireable. Nearly 4,000 20/25 chassis were produced, making it the company's best-selling model between the wars
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