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Collector's Motor Cars & Aircraft — Bonhams & Goodman (No longer trading)

Auction House:Bonhams & Goodman (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:16
Sale Title:Collector's Motor Cars & AircraftLots with images:14
Auction Location:Nelson, New ZealandPrices available:7
Date:14-Sep-2008
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1934 Rolls-Royce 20/25hp sports saloon. The 20/25hp was, of course, an exclusively coach built automobile and most of the great British coach building firms offered designs, many of them unique, on the 20/25hp chassis
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1914 Daimler 25hp Tourer, the Daimler Motor Co Ltd, of London and Coventry proudly announced in their 1900 catalogue: 'We claim not only to be the pioneers of the industry in this country, but also to have kept the lead, thus placing Daimler Motor Carriages a long way ahead of all others.', they paid due respect to Gottlieb Daimler and the 'Daimler' system, and offered a range of twin- and four-cylinder cars and commercial vehicles. Conventional poppet valve engines were used throughout the early 1900s,…
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1930 Auburn Model 125 Rumble Seat Roadster. While the American automobile industry's development in its formative years had been guided by the inventor/engineer, its progress between the wars was shaped not so much by technicians as by entrepreneurs. One such was Auburn boss Errett Lobban Cord, who once admitted to having made and lost $50,000 three times in the course of his business dealings, and all before reaching the age of 21! When Cord joined Auburn as general manager in 1924 the company was in the…
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1912 AC Sociable. Having abandoned plans to produce a 20hp touring car, John Weller turned his not inconsiderable design talents to something more mundane - a three-wheeled commercial delivery vehicle that would suit the needs of his businessman backer, John Portwine. Called the 'Auto-Carrier' this timber-framed device was powered by a single-cylinder, 636cc, air-cooled (by fans) engine mounted beneath the driver's seat and driving the rear wheel, via a two-speed epicyclic gearbox, by chain. Steering was…
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1914 Warrick. Having left his trade as a gunsmith to work as an agent for 'The Monarch Carrier' (a tradesman's box tricycle) John Warrick also began working for the manufacturing company, T W Pitt, as an engineer. With the appearance of the Auto Carrier in 1910 Warrick saw a business opportunity and ordered an AC and had his chief engineer dismantle it. Subsequently the 'Warrick Motor Carrier' was born and whilst seen by some as a blatant copy of the AC it was popular and endorsed by the large London…
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1950 Jaguar MkV 3.5-Litre Saloon. Jaguar Cars - as William Lyons' Ss concern had been renamed by 1945 - commenced post-war production with a range of improved but essentially pre-war designs. A considerable improvement on what had gone before, the MkV saloon's cruciform-braced chassis featured torsion bar independent front suspension, designed pre-war by the company's Chief Engineer William Heynes, and all-round hydraulic brakes. Jaguar's existing Standard-based, six-cylinder, overhead-valve engine was…
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1949 Ford V8 'Woodie' Station Wagon & Caravan. The V8 engine was no novelty when Henry Ford introduced the Ford V8 in 1932, but never before had such an engine been produced successfully in large numbers and at so low a price. Styling followed the lines of the superseded Model A, but with an extra 25bhp the newcomer's performance was in an entirely different league. Engine development proceeded at a brisk pace and by 1936 the V8's initial problems had been overcome and maximum power raised to 85bhp. The…
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1932 Mg F-Type Magna Sports. General Manager of Oxford-based Morris Garages, Cecil Kimber brought sports car motoring within the financial reach of the man in the street with a succession of affordable MGs. These were, naturally enough, based on existing Morris models, arguably the most famous and certainly the most influential being the Midget, the first version of which appeared in 1928 at the London Motor Show. The first - M-Type - Midget was based on modified Morris Minor running gear and used the…
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1930 Rolls-Royce 20/25hp Sedanca De Ville. The introduction of a smaller Rolls-Royce, the 20hp, in 1922 enabled the company to cater for the increasingly important owner-driver market that appreciated the quality of Rolls-Royce engineering but did not need a car as large as a 40/50hp Ghost or Phantom. The 'Twenty' proved eminently suited to town use, yet could cope admirably with Continental touring when called upon. Its successor, the 20/25hp, introduced in 1929, up-dated the concept with significant…
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Mk XVI Spitfire TE330. The old engineering adage - 'If it looks right, it most probably is right', describes the Spitfire to perfection. For a 1930's design, even today, it still looks drop dead gorgeous from any angle, from the smooth curves over the nose, to the unique elliptical plan shape of its wings. Always referred to as a 'she', this charismatic lady, the ultimate aviation collectable, a national icon even, was just a war machine - a military vehicle to get the man and his machine guns, cannons,…
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1898 De Dion Bouton 31/2hp vis-à-vis. The names of De Dion and Bouton are inextricably linked with the pioneer years of the motor car. Early 137cc engines ran at speeds of up to 1500rpm, and the first internal combustion-engined tricycles were built in 1895
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1950 Bentley MkVI Waumsley Special. $35,000-45,000The policy of rationalisation begun in the late 1930s continued at Rolls-Royce after the war with the introduction of standard bodywork on the MkVI Bentley, though customers could still opt for a coachbuilt alternative. Rolls-Royce's first post-World War II product, the MkVI was introduced in 1946, a year ahead of the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith. Although mechanically similar to the MkVI, the latter was exclusively a coachbuilt car, the first 'standard steel'…
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1969 Lola T142 Formula 5000 Monoposto. From humble beginnings in 1958 - the prototype Mark 1 sports car emerged from a garage behind the Broadley family's tailoring shop in Bromley, Kent - Lola Cars quickly established a winning reputation and grew to become a major force in world motorsport. Eric Broadley, his cousin Graham and Rob Rushbrook, at whose garage premises the first customer production versions were made, were the architects of the early success, which continued with a front-engined…
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1963 BMW Isetta 300, known as the 'Bubblecar' or 'Cabin Scooter'. At first glance it appears to be a three wheeler, however, the Isetta has a pair of closely spaced wheels at the rear and is powered by a BMW single cylinder, 300cc four stroke motorcycle engine, capable of up to 65mph and 55mpg
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1955 Mercedes-Benz 180 Saloon. After Mercedes-Benz recommenced production after World War II the basic mechanical components were of a pre-war design. In 1953 a new full width body of unitary construction, available with two engine sizes, a four cylinder unit of 1767cc's, and a six cylinder unit of 2195cc, was introduced. The unitary construction resulted in improved rigidity and noise reduction. These features combined with Mercedes-Benz legendary reliability and high quality gave the 180 a performance…
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1966 Mercedes-Benz 250SE Coupe. First shown at Frankfurt in 1965, the new S-Class Mercedes-Benz range was outwardly distinguishable from preceding models by a sleeker bodyshell with lower roof and waistlines, and increased glass area. All models featured similar all-independent suspension, as well as four-wheel disc brakes and power-assisted steering. However, although the saloon used this 'New Generation' bodyshell, the Coupe and Cabriolet kept the timelessly elegant coachwork that had debuted back in…
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