Descripción
Una oportunidad excepcionalmente emocionante, al ser un PII Continental de dos puertas descapotable de dos plazas con maletero (dickey), con una carrocería muy elegante y estilizada de H. J. Mulliner, favorecida por alas abiertas y envolventes, un parabrisas bajo, un conjunto precioso de lámparas de acero inoxidable, incluyendo faros P100S, etc., todo lo cual contribuye a una apariencia general de gran efecto visual. La especificación original completa, de pedido especial, del chasis, muestra un tacómetro grande de 5" y un velocímetro, "el tipo de bocina Bosch más ruidoso", especial atención al sistema de refrigeración y pruebas especiales del chasis cuando está completo. 28MS comenzó su vida como un Tourer de James Young, pero la carrocería actual de H. J. Mulliner, originalmente montada sobre otro PII Continental (149TA), lleva en ella varias décadas, algo así como dos tercios de su vida, de hecho. Con una familia (padre e hija) desde 1960 hasta 2018 y con nosotros por segunda vez, y viene con una gran cantidad de información de fondo, incluyendo un fabuloso conjunto de fotos tomadas en un tour continental cuando el coche era nuevo, añadiendo más al ya considerable archivo de historia. Cosméticamente muy utilizable, equipado con una funda ordenada para el capó compacto que se pliega con facilidad y queda bajo y una funda de lona. También mecánicamente muy prometedor, conduciendo especialmente bien, con una dirección sorprendentemente ligera, frenos decentes, y mejorando y mejorando con el uso, después de haber estado parado durante aproximadamente una década en años recientes. Acabamos de realizar un servicio de reacondicionamiento y hemos instalado una cabeza de cilindro nueva, aumentando el atractivo (y el valor) del coche y al mismo tiempo dando confianza y seguridad para el futuro y contribuyendo al funcionamiento al refrigerarse que disfruta el coche. Completo con el mencionado archivo histórico, dos impresionantes y originales bandejas de herramientas, montadas a ambos lados del interior del maletero, y reunido de nuevo con su número de registro original, muy adecuado, GY 4050. Es poco probable que volvamos a poder ofrecer una oportunidad como ésta. Ofrecido recién homologado MoT probado.} See video on our website & the article on prewar
Chassis No. 28MS Reg. No. GY 4050
Snippets: Construction, A Pair of Russian Princesses, Erroneous Award & Domestic Appliances
The first private owner of 28MS was Robert Edwin McAlpine (1907/ 1990) the grandson of Sir “Concrete Bob” MacAlpine. The chassis cards show that in 1932 Archibald Henry Pass (of Pass & Joyce Ltd) drove 28MS along the Stelvio Pass in order to “determine whether a 1932 Continental Phantom Rolls-Royce would negotiate the Stelvio Pass at the speed requisite for the Alpine Trial in view of the 44 hair-pin bends”. The trip was undertaken with A. H. Pass driving, Geoffrey Smith of Autocar as co-driver and G. W. Hancock from the RR experimental dept – the distance covered was some 2, 300miles at an average of 9miles per gallon! 28MS was then sold to R. E. McAlpine as a 2nd hand car with the extra bonus of having a few extras plus already run in! In the 1930s Robert McAlpine purchased Lyttel Hall in Nutfield and registered 28MS there in 1937, the car was later, possibly during WWII, rebodied as a shooting brake & was apparently taken to West Africa by Dr Geoffrey Cuthbert Tooth (1908/ 98) who used it as a mobile surgery (more research needed here)! Dr Tooth was a qualified MRCS and a LRCP but he later specialised in the field of psychology with particular interest in juvenile delinquency; he produced several papers on Studies of Mental Illness in the Gold Coast. During WWII Geoffrey served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. In 1935 Geoffrey married his 1st wife - Princess Olga Galitzine. She died in 1955 aged just 52 and in 1958 Dr Tooth had relocated to Teheran where he married his 2nd wife Princess Zenia Andreevna of the Russian Royal family. Her paternal grandfather was the 4th son of Grand Duke Michael, namely a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I; her paternal grandmother was the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna – she was the eldest daughter of Tsar Alexander II and the sister of Tsar Nicholas II. Now that is what you call a pedigree! In 1956, after having been imported by J. O. Auclair the PII became the property of Major Cyril Edward Darlington who in 1949 was mistaken for Captain Charles Evan Darlington & it was reported erroneously that Cyril had had the Legion of Merit, Degree of Legionnaire conferred upon him by Harry Truman, President of the United States! A rebuttal notice was placed in The London Gazette to correct the error! By 1960 28MS was with H. R. Wilkins, the family firm of Wilkins & Mitchell dates from the early 1900s and at one stage the firm employed over 1, 000 people. Wilkins & Mitchell produced machine tools, power presses and later in 1929 washing machines – Servis Domestic Appliances.
