The Rolls-Royce Twenty, introduced in 1922, was a major move for the Company, since it represented the first new model since the great Silver Ghost went into production in 1907.  Still with the same world-beating standard of engineering quality as the Ghost, the model was smaller and more manoeuvrable, and designed to appeal to owner-drivers as well as the chauffeur.

Performance was magnificently flexible and the whole drivetrain extraordinarily silent and the steering offered jewel-like precision, incidentally bringing a whole new range of customers to Rolls-Royce as the car appealed mightily to lady drivers of the era.

Exported in chassis form to Sydney Australia on the SS Sophocles to its first owner AG Chapman Esq on the 10th of September 1923, chassis 83K7 was then subsequently fitted with a tourer body by the coachbuilders Smith & Waddington, Ltd.

Smith & Waddington was incorporated in Camperdown, a suburb of Sydney, in September 1922.

The British-born Frank Waddington was a ...