Registration No: GE 8697
Chassis No: GX048
MOT: Exempt

• Supplied new to Sir David McCowan, 1st Baronet. A Scottish international rugby union player and later became the 49th President of the Scottish Rugby Union
• Bodywork restoration and retrim in current ownership

• Fitted with its original 4d 6L Landaulette coachwork by Windovers

The Rolls-Royce 20/25 replaced the 3127cc 6-cylinder Twenty in 1929. Happily, braking on all four wheels was adopted in production during 1925. The new model's engine capacity went up to 3669cc, though it was essentially the same Royce designed 20hp. Indeed, this same engine was developed and enlarged until the late 1950s, by when the capacity and power output had risen to 4887cc and 178bhp respectively - the original 20 had produced just 53bhp! Dependent on the weight, not to mention the aerodynamic efficiency (or should this be inefficiency!) of the coachwork fitted to the chassis, a 20/25 could be opened up to achieve a most impressive top speed of up to 78mph. 20/25s were made until 1936, when the replacement 25/30 with 4257cc engine and hypoid rear axle came out. It is reckoned that, in all, 3827 20/25s were hand-built 1929-36.

Supplied new to Sir David McCowan 1st Baronet, Scottish international rugby union player and who later became the 49th President of the Scottish Rugby Union, ‘GE 8697’ pleasing retains its original 4d 6L Landaulette coachwork by Windovers. Entering the Aberaeron Collection in 2013 it is understood the Rolls-Royce spent 30 years residing in Canada and arrived back in the UK in c.1990.

The subject of a bodywork restoration and repaint plus interior re-trim in current ownership and understood to have received replacement valves and springs in the early 2000s, the Yellow paintwork replicates the 20hp which started in the Darling Buds of May TV series. Offered with glass tumblers and decanters, luggage trunk, collection of old MOT certificates, Chassis card records and current V5C document.

For more information, please contact:
James McWilliam
james.mcwilliam@handh.co.uk
07943 584760