This 1928 AC 16/56 Six Royal Roadster is another of the AC company milestones accumulated over years by Jim Feldman.

Its importance is not necessarily attributable to a specific technical, design, or styling breakthrough—rather, it marks the beginning of the end of the company’s ownership by S.F.

Edge.

A trip through voluntary receivership was followed by AC’s eventual acquisition and long-term ownership by brothers William A.E.

and Charles F.

Hurlock in 1930.

Selwyn Francis Edge was legendary transitional figure in British automobiles.

Born in 1868, he was a successful bicycle racer who worked for Rudge and Dunlop before taking on the De Dion Bouton agency with fellow pioneers Charles Jarrott and Herbert Duncan.

He soon began a collaboration with Montague Napier and raced repeatedly in the first decade of the 20th century, often with success.

In 1900, C.S.

Rolls joined Edge as riding mechanic in a Napier for the Paris-Toulouse race (they failed to finish).

To put it mildly,...