To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION WITHOUT RESERVE at RM Sothebys' The London Auction event, 31 October 2026.

Offered Without Reserve | £50,000 - £70,000 GBP Interesting known ownership historyBuilt by an obscure-but-interesting early British automakerIn prior family ownership for a remarkable 60 yearsFeatured in the 1965 film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines The early motoring world was one of characters and scoundrels.

Harry J Lawson was both; he sought to monopolise motorcar manufacturing in Britain by buying up the patents to essentially all necessary components and designs.

He would be stymied by the courts, but his year-old Great Horseless Carriage Company survived by reorganising in 1898 as the Motor Manufacturing Company.

MMC, as it became more widely known, initially built automobiles of Daimler design—appropriate, as they shared Coventry’s famed Motor Mills with Daimler’s British arm.MMC eventually evolved its models, relocated to another Coventry location, and conti...