1931 Rolls-Royce 20/25 Hooper 2dr 4Str drophead ‘Coupe Cabriolet’ GOS44

An unusual and very appealing car, being an original-bodied, two door, four light drophead with various interesting touches. For example, there are typically high-quality fixtures and fittings, including ‘Hooper Patent’ signalling window to the driver’s door, The car is correct, sound, smart and attractive, nicely finished in green with excellent red leather. Running and driving nicely, and fitted with overdrive, making the car more practical and enjoyable in modern traffic, particularly on longer journeys and tours, etc. Enhancements include twin side-mounted spare wheels, all six being shod with Michelin tyres, an excellent array of Lucas lamps, including P80 bullseye headlights, PLG40 centre spot, and ‘owl eye’ rear lamp, twin mirrors, a scuttle-mounted spot lamp, and much more. The car has been enjoyed by the last two owners, both of whom bought the car from us, for thirteen years and twelve years respectively. Both have looked after the car very nicely, and as a consequence it is in lovely condition, as well as being full of character and charm, and retaining its original, registration number MS 900. Offered serviced, newly MoT tested and ready to go.

Price £ 57,500

Snippets: Tobacco & Pottery

The first owner was Miss Isobel Kennedy Mitchell (1884/1967) of Craigmount, Kelvinside – her complicated family included connections to the 18th Century tobacco firm of Stephen Mitchell & Son, Glasgow. This firm had been established in Linlithgow in 1723 & due to expansion moved at the end of century to the outskirts of Glasgow. Isobel’s mother Isabella Stewart Tod died in 1892 aged 42 leaving Stephen Mitchell (1847/1920) with 4 children under the age of 13 to bring up. In 1894 Stephen married Miss Anges Rankin McNeill and in 1895 they had a daughter Margaret who lived her entire life with her half-sibling Isobel. Isobel & Margaret were keen adventures and due to their inheritance when their father died in 1920 they spent many years travelling Europe as did their bachelor Great-Uncle Stephen Mitchell who in 1874 left the sum of £70,000 (equivalent to £30m today) to the City of Glasgow in order for the City to establish a Public Library known today as the Mitchell Library. Isobel’s other family members included Rosemary Kennedy Aspin authoress of “Tales of the Broomhill Squirrels” & Isobel’s twin brother – Stephen Mitchell (1884/1951) who became a Scottish Unionist Politician. During WWII it was illegal to stockpile petrol without a licence but Margaret Mitchell didn’t think that law applied to her and in 1941 she was fined the sum of £25 for storing 19gallons at a home she shared with her sister Isobel. During the 1960s & ‘70s GOS44 was in the USA with Arthur Robert Feeney who was involved with the Scio Pottery Company which was destroyed by fire in 1947 but with the loyalty of the employees and locals Lew Reese (owner of Scio Pottery) managed to rebuild the factory in 62 days which was then a world record for that type of building – there is even a movie of the story! The Reese family even established a museum which had stuffed animals and vehicles including 1908 Maxwell Roadster, 1917 Chevrolet, 1933 LaSalle coupe, 1936 Packard coupe, 1954 Kaiser-Darrin plus a Rolls-Royce, Corvettes and Troy Ruttman’s 1952 race car in which he won the 1952 Indianapolis 500 – is the Rolls-Royce GOS44?