Lot details Registration No: MBW325N Chassis No: SRH20762 Mot Expiry: Oct 2004
Offered here is a quite exceptional Rolls-Royce. For when entered for this sale, only 42,618 miles were displayed and - as confirmed by a letter among the documents from previous owner Doctor Harold Hassall OBE, who purchased the 1975-built Silver Shadow I in 1980 with only 9000 miles on the clock and only parted with it last month - this extraordinarily low mileage is believed to be the genuine total from new.
According to Dr Hassall, MBW 325N was serviced by Rolls-Royce Motors themselves until 1986, since when maintenance has always been carried out by George Dobson, a former R-R employee, with attention to coachwork being entrusted to Barry Buller and annual MOT conducted by Beckton Motors of Sandbach.
The motor car transported the good Doctor round his medical practice in style until his retirement ten years ago, since when it only did about 80 miles a week. Indeed, during his final year of ownership, the weekly mileage fell to a mere 40 miles, which is why, he says, he parted with it.
The 4-door saloon bodywork is described as being excellent, the Moorland Green Metallic paintwork good and the beige leather interior excellent. Both 6750cc 8-cylinder engine and automatic transmission are said to be in excellent order and the MOT is current until October. The condition, low mileage and medical history of this particular Shadow I are unlikely to be matched by other examples currently on the market.
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