PLEASE NOTE : This lot has been on static display in a Private Collection since 2021 and therefore will need some recommissioning.

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-proportioned and attractive, the coachbuilder’s patented ‘Dual Purpose’ design featured a t...