20hp GF7

 

 

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The Real Car Co Ltd.

Specialist dealers in early Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars.

1923 Rolls-Royce 20hp Open Tourer.

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GF7Ext2.JPG (63514 bytes) GF7Ext3.JPG (57846 bytes) GF7Ext4.JPG (68326 bytes) GF7Ext6.JPG (55494 bytes) GF7Ext7.JPG (54623 bytes) GF7Ext8.JPG (62220 bytes) GF7Ext9.JPG (61627 bytes) GF7Det4.JPG (33773 bytes)

GF7Tonn11.JPG (31773 bytes) GF7Tonn7.JPG (54011 bytes) GF7Tonn6.JPG (57089 bytes) GF7Hood6.JPG (59172 bytes) GF7Hood5.JPG (56771 bytes) GF7Hood3.JPG (54842 bytes) GF7Hood1.JPG (39269 bytes) 

GF7Det3.JPG (52407 bytes) GF7Det1.JPG (47521 bytes) GF7Dash1.JPG (56284 bytes) GF7int4.JPG (52041 bytes) GF7int6.JPG (43107 bytes) GF7int5.JPG (44630 bytes)  GF7int3.JPG (46052 bytes) GF7int1.JPG (50229 bytes)

 GF7Eng2.JPG (53974 bytes) GF7Eng6.JPG (58724 bytes) GF7Eng4.JPG (68721 bytes)

A delightful and very appropriate four seat tourer body, very nicely built in the 1960s to a high standard, and incorporating many suitable design features, giving the car a very authentic look.  These include double curvature to doors, etc, very period-looking windscreen and Auster screen, polished bonnet, etc, and correct, 'split rim' wheels with five new Dunlop Cord tyres fitted add to this further. Running sweetly, MoT tested until November 2012, and altogether lovely!

Chassis No. GF7.                                Reg No. FU 1525.                        £57,500.

Snippets: Woes of Willingham House

Delivered to Charles Wright at his 2nd family home of Willingham House in Lincolnshire, his other family home was Anston Hall  which the family occupied from the late 1600s to 1947 when his daughter Constance sold Anston Hall to property developers.  In 1881 Charles & his family had a staff of 9 live-in servants to cater to his & his family!  The history of Willingham House can be traced back to 1790 when it was built for Ayscough Boucherett, he was responsible for the introduction of a new harbour for Grimsby, in 1815 Ayscough was killed when his curricle (a fast horse-drawn trap) overturned at the base of Willingham Hill.  From 1830 to 1850 the Hall was let out to the Howards (again relatives by marriage) & in 1850 the Boucheretts returned, remaining in residence until the death of Emelia Jessie Boucherett (noted suffragette) in 1905.  With her death the family name of Boucherett died out & the Hall was inherited by the Barnes family (related by an earlier marriage with one of the Bourcherett daughters).  A few years later the Hall passed into the Wright family (again related by marriage), he was the proud father of 7 daughters & 2 sons but sadly both of his boys predeceased him on the same day.  Major Robert & his younger brother Lt Charles whilst serving with the Lincolnshire Yeomanry were killed on a troop ship in Palestine on the 28th Nov 1917.  Charles himself died in December 1926 when his gun was triggered by accident, his wife Isabella Margarita lived until 1942.  The second owner was Douglas Wright, a relative of Charles whose home Ash Farm was part of the original estate & is still run by the Wrights today.

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