A good, sound, very useable early MKVI









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BethesdaHi Can we update the customer dealer page with this The Real Car Company Ltd The Real Car Company was established in 1987 by Ray Arnold & Ian Johnstone to specialise in the sale of early Rolls-Royce and Bentley. It was a hobby that 'Got out of hand'. Our interest in cars of the type that we now sell goes back to our childhoods, and ownership back to the 1970s. Gradually more cars started passing through our hands, and by 1986 we had decided to make a full-time occupation of buying and selling the cars that we love. We started with a single car (all we could afford) which we sold quickly, and before we knew it we had 4 or 5 on our hands! This was alongside another business (exhaust systems) that we were involved in at the time. In the spring of 1988 we gave up the other business, rented part of the premises that we still operate from now, and went full time. We started well in the boom years of the late eighties, which set us up well enough for us to ride the storm of recession in the years that followed. As the years went on the number of cars going through our hands increased gradually, we built up a workforce, and we now carry a stock of around 30 to 40 vehicles with nine of us here. Over the years we have gratefully received awards from the motoring press. We are always interested in acquiring cars of the type that we sell so if you know of a Rolls-Royce or Bentley for sale, anywhere in the World, particularly an early model, please let us know
A good, sound and very useable example of an early MKVI finished in black with beige leather interior which, being an early car, is of the plain, nonpleated design, with two armrests to each front seat. This, together with inertia reel seatbelts to the front and a nicelyworking sliding sunroof make the inside a very nice place to be! We have a file of maintenance and repair invoices totalling about £39,000 since the 1980s, and the car has covered about 2,300 miles in the hands of the last owner since he bought it from us in 2016. A comprehensive service was carried out in 2022 costing £2,600, since when just 100 miles have been covered. We feel that the car would benefit from a certain amount of cleaning and cosmetic improvement, but this is by no means urgent, and more importantly, the chassis, underbody and coachwork are all reassuringly sound. Running and driving nicely, equipped with a wellsuited set of Avon Turbosteel tyres, correct headlights, centre spotlight, etc, and offered prepared and newly MoT tested. Chassis No. B119BG Reg. JTU 554 £27,500Snippets: Carpets & BeersSir Alfred Hammond Aykroyd 1894/1965 (aka Flash Harry) was a scion of two industrious families, the Hammonds Bradford Brewery (Emma Aykrod, his mother, was a granddaughter of James Hammond) and the Ffrith Carpet Company (His great uncle was Sir Algernon Ffirth). Hammonds Brewery was initially founded by Joseph Pullen who in 1860 sold his brewery to James Hammond. When James Hammond died in 1875 he owned a staggering 35 public houses! In 1919 Sir Alfred Hamond married Sylvia Thorne the widow of Lt. Col. Foster Newton Thorne whose family had owned Southover Grange in Lewes from 1572 to 1901. Lt. Col. Thorne was killed during WWI whilst serving with the Sussex Regiment in Shatt al Adhaim, Mesopotamia, leaving Sylvia with their 11 month daughter Vivian. In 1947, the year that he bought B119BG, Sir Alfred was appointed Chairman of Ffirth & Sons, Director of Hammonds Brewery & was in receipt of the Baronetcy, a busy year by all accounts, he was already a director of Martins Bank! After his death B119BG was acquired by Ralph Parker of Datchet, a lifelong bachelor Ralph kept B119BG until his death in 1998 when the car was inherited by Roland Bryant who, as he did not have a garage soon sold it to Mr W. F. Cooper of Southampton.