Few of the bodies fitted to the “Springfield” Rolls-Royce Phantom I were more attractive than the Ascot Tourer, a handsome five-passenger open model with refined styling, including artfully flowing fenders, a nearly horizontal concave polished beltline, and a raked one-piece windshield.

Reportedly only the first five Ascot bodies were fitted with hidden door hinges, and examination of the records in Rolls-Royce in America indicates most were used as “demonstrators,” test-driven by prospective customers at Rolls-Royce dealers.

This is indicative of the draw that Rolls-Royce management felt they had in the new Ascot.

The exciting Springfield-built Phantom I “hidden-hinge, Derby top” Ascot Tourer, S346KP, is offered from the esteemed and finely curated collection of Terence E.

Adderley.

Accompanying documentation from The Rolls-Royce Foundation notes that S36KP was delivered new to the investment banker T.F.

Scholl of New York City on 12 April 1929.

Following his death just two yea...