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.
