Description From a deceased estate; rare car with powerful 4-litre straight-eight engine; restored in America some years ago; current owner 15 years; for recommissioning following 10 years in storage One of the most resonant names in British motoring history, Railton Cars was founded in 1933 by Noel Macklin, a gifted engineer who had already established his credentials as a top rank car manufacturer with the Invicta marque which he founded in 1925.

For his new venture he teamed up with Reid Railton, another brilliant engineer perhaps most famous for designing Sir Malcolm Campbell’s ‘Bluebird’ Land Speed Record cars of 1931 to 1935, and John Cobb’s record-breaking ‘Railton Mobil Special’.

Macklin was a devotee of top gear performance and his goal was to produce a quiet and refined car with good handling, comfortable ride and above all, effortless acceleration.

Produced at the old Invicta works on Macklin’s Fairmile estate in Cobham, the first Railton Straight Eights used a modified H...