The Times (London)

By Frankie Edozien

A CAR driven by Sir Henry Royce is expected to fetch up to Pounds 90,000 at auction later this month after being discovered in a country shed where it had been stored for 56 years.

Rolls-Royce enthusiasts consider the find to be particularly exciting because the car was used regularly by Royce, who started the company with Charles Stewart Rolls in 1906.

“It is undoubtedly the most significant Rolls-Royce to be offered for sale for at least 25 years,” said Stewart Skillbeck, Rolls-Royce specialist at the classic car auctioneers Bonhams and Brooks. It is to be auctioned on June 30 at Towcester racecourse.

The car, commissioned in 1923, is fitted with bodywork by the coachbuilders Hooper and was a development model that Royce used for five years as his main mode of transport from his home in Sussex.