• Understood to have been restored in 2003 • London-Brighton Run invitee in 2008 • Present ownership since 2012 • Little used since acquisition Founded by Henry Leland and Robert Faulconer, the Cadillac Automobile Company, of Detroit, Michigan completed its first car in October 1902, the firm's superior manufacturing technology - precision gear cutting was Leland and Faulconer's first speciality - soon establishing it as the foremost builder of quality cars in the USA.

The first Cadillac automobile made a triumphant debut at the New York Automobile Show in January 1903 when sales manager William E Metzger took orders for no fewer than 2,286 cars, famously declaring mid-week that the Cadillac was 'sold out'.

An exemplary performer by the standards of the day, the Cadillac's 98ci (1.6-litre) 10hp single-cylinder engine - known as 'Little Hercules' - was mounted horizontally on the left beneath the front seat and drove via a conventional two-speeds-plus-reverse planetary transmission, w...