Description Good running order and in regular use; nice transferable number; eye-catching colour scheme The Consort was a development of the pre-war DB18 and was a quality four-door saloon powered by Daimler’s own six-cylinder ohv 2,522cc engine (also used in the firm’s military vehicles).

Upright, formal and stately as a galleon, it was quite sprightly for all that (70bhp and 80mph) and you couldn’t fault the quality.

Popular with billionaire Indian maharajahs and Royalty in Ceylon and Burma, even Winston Churchill had one.

In production from 1949 to 1953, Daimler sold 4,250 of them.

First registered in May 1951, this Consort comes with very little history so we can’t tell you much about it.

However, it does have 17 old MOTs which show that it has been in light regular use (always a good sign with any old car), clocking up some 5,000 miles since 2003, the odometer currently showing 99,784 miles.

A sticker in the window suggests that it was formerly owned by Ovono Group, a classi...