10,000 miles - Believed to be the first chassis, and third eight-cylinder car - Previous family ownership for over 60 years (five owners from new) - Supplied new to Major Michael Wills of W.D and H.O Wills Tobacco Having built a Meadows-engined prototype in 1933, George Brough decided bodying another manufacturer’s rolling chassis was the best way into small-scale motorcar production.

Settling on Hudson’s high-performance ‘Eight’ as the ideal donor, he secured a supply from the American manufacturer only to meet with fierce resistance from Noel Macklin’s Railton concern which had had the same idea several years earlier and did not wish to share running gear with a UK rival.

Threatened with legal action, Hudson only sold twenty-five eight-cylinder chassis to Brough before providing fifty examples of their less contentious six-cylinder chassis.

As he had with the prototype, Brough commissioned W.C.

Atcherley of Birmingham to body his four-wheeled creations.

Undeniably well-proportio...