Despatched from the Derby factory to Park Ward in June 1934, chassis number ‘B49BL’ eventually found itself finished in “Fawn, with brown moulding” and a brown leather interior.

After final tests at Park Ward, the car was registered on 11th September 1934 and issued with the registration number ‘BGT 446’ before being shipped from Dover to Boulogne three days later to be used as an export demonstrator.

A Captain Harold Montague Hinde OBE of the Royal Army Service Corps became its first owner when he purchased it in March 1935.

He didn’t keep it for long, selling it in late 1935 to a dealer in London.

It spent the next fifteen years and three owners in London before moving to Ipswich.

After a gap in the records, all the dismantled parts of the car were purchased from two brothers in 1982 by William C.

Mount.

With the original ash frame being rotten, the body was discarded in anticipation of a full mechanical restoration and re-bodying.

Bill Mount, a skilled furniture designer and...