• Body believed to be by Fuller's of Bath • Originally built for a horse-drawn vehicle used on Lord Methuen's estate • Fitted to this chassis in the 1980s • Laid up in recent years A development of the earlier Twenty, the first 'small' Rolls-Royce, the 20/25hp was launched in 1929 featuring an enlarged (from 3,127 to 3,699cc) and more-powerful cross-flow version of the six-cylinder, overhead-valve engine of its predecessor.

Apart from the revised engine, early chassis were identical to those of the last 20s, both models being produced during 1929.

Thus the 20/25 inherited the righthand gearchange and servo-assisted brakes introduced on its predecessor, as well as Phantom-style radiator shutters.

Produced contemporaneously with the Phantom II, the 20/25 benefited from many of the features, such as synchromesh gears and centralised chassis lubrication, developed for the larger model.

Eventually, the trend towards increasingly weighty coachwork prompted Rolls-Royce to revise the 20/25...