2024-09-06 14:37:58 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 9/24

cars.bonhams.com/auction/29333/lot/523/1947-jaguar-mkiv-212-litre-saloon-chassis ...

Auction description:

Lot 523

Property of a titled gentleman

1947 Jaguar MkIV 2½-Litre Saloon

The Beaulieu Sale Collectors' Motor Cars & Automobilia

|14 September 2024

Registration no. HXH 72

Chassis no. to be advised

Engine no. P499

• First owned by Air Chief Marshal Sir Leslie Hollinghurst, GBE, KCB, DFC

• Present ownership for over 50 years

• Used sparingly each year

• Understood to be outstandingly original

This MkIV was bought new in 1947 by Air Chief Marshal Sir Leslie Hollinghurst GBE, KCB, DFC, a WWI flying 'ace', senior commander in the RAF during WW2, and Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force 1948-1949. The car sat in a hangar for many years before being bought by an American, a Mr Wilkinson, who kept it for a year and drove 10,000 miles. The car was then bought by our titled vendor from Camden Motors, which had acquired it in January 1970, and was registered in May 1970 by Park Garage, Watford, of which our vendor was part owner. The Jaguar has never been laid up but has done a few miles every year and is in totally original condition, benefiting from the same ownership for over 50 years. The current odometer reading is 27,700 miles. This remarkable MkIV is offered with an old-style continuation logbook, a workshop manual, V5C document, and a full complement of tools (in the boot).