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First Owner
Subsequent Owners
Details
Auctions
Registration Illustrations
5UK
Kellner Saloon 1935
Edouard Boucherit (1875-1975) of 75 Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris VIII and 10 rue de la Pépinière, Paris VIII, France. He was a book and magazine publisher.
He also bought a 20/25HP GXB62 and a Phantom III 3DL164.
Rolls-Royce (Paris) Depot (1939, FRA); Cmdr. Harcourt Smith (1945, UK); Miss Horn (1949, UK); Capt. A.R.G. Stevenson (1957, UK); E. Griffith (1959, UK); H.F. Gresham (1962, USA); Erik Krag (1965, USA); Barry G. Hon (1974, USA); Daniel I. Sargent (1979, USA); Darrell B. Edwards (1985, USA); B.W. Roberts (1995, UK); Andrew Charles Henry Crisford (2002-2015>, UK).
This is the only odd number in the UK series. When the Germans invaded Paris, 5UK was at the Rolls- Royce depot and one of the staff fled at its wheel to Oysonville where it was hidden until 1943.
It was fitted with a speedometer in kilometres only, a petrol gauge in litres, Marchal headlamps and Klaxon dual windscreen wipers. The interior was trimmed with black woodwork.
Engine: UU55; Maker (Body No.), Body (Design No.): Kellner, Saloon; Off-Test: 18 May, 1935
Sotheby/Parke-Bernet James Leake auction, Tulsa, OK, 4 June, 1972, Lot 39. Bonhams auction, Olympia, London, 2 December, 2002, Lot 1053
HXM341
FL/646, GENTILE/244, CORR/141, A194/1, A220/2, A245/3, LEAKE-72/75, C&SC NOV00/83
5UK in the USA in 1972 when it was auctioned by Sotheby/Parke-Bernet on behalf of James Leake.
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