This very good Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith Six Light Saloon by Park Ward, design number 144, body number N.

186 was built for Major Horace E.

Dodge Jr., the party-loving playboy heir to the Dodge Motor Company in Detroit.

At that time, he was living at St.

Leonard’s, Windsor, Berkshire the 18th century house which was purchased by his mother and remodelled into a 103-room villa.

After he died the house was sold to Billy Smart, of circus fame.

When he died it became part of Windsor Safari Park which is now Legoland Windsor with the mansion as its headquarters.

The next owner was Frances Day, an American actress who was the ‘Toast of London’ in the 1930’s.

George Bernard Shaw wrote ‘Boyant Billions’ for her in 1949.

The next owner was Roger David Marquis, the 2nd Earl of Woolton.

In 1965 it was sold to Grooms Garages Ltd.

After this the Silver Wraith was exported to the US, in 1989 it returned to the UK being imported and registered by William Faragher.

Purchased by Ernest Boyc...