Thing I learned today: a sedanca body is one with the driver exposed to the elements and the rear seat passengers under cover.
who owned this car when it was new?
Sir John Gaul, often referred to as a millionaire property tycoon (when a million meant something).
He was so rich that in 1947 he bought a ten year old Rolls-Royce Phantom III with a limousine body and sent it to Freestone & Webb for new bodywork and requested a flamboyant use of copper on it. This car became known as the ‘Copper Kettle’. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-copper-kettle-1937-rolls-that-was.html
He had businesses in London’s Soho and owned the Coronet Club there. He secured a long lease on a Maltese island called Comino and built a hotel complex there. He was married five times and loved extravagant cars. He lived for many years in Rio De Janeiro after some unpleasantness in the UK and later in Malta from whence the UK tried unsuccessfully to extradite him.
Copper car-
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it hurts to have someone send me a link, instead of seeing that I've already posted it. When I've posted it, why look at someone else's site?
DeleteThe terms sedanca and sedanca de ville were introduced by Spanish nobleman Count Carlos de Salamanca, the Spanish distributor for Rolls-Royce, in 1923.The strict definition of a sedanca includes a locker for the cant rails and canopy that form the roof; this was introduced by Count de Salamanca in his original sedanca.
ReplyDeleteUsage of these terms in the United Kingdom is unclear. According to once source, "sedanca de ville" refers to a town car variant, and "sedanca" refers to a sedanca coupé. According to another source, sedanca de ville is a redundant term and sedanca refers to a town car.Thanks,I liked this.