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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D331/27/28
TitleRolls Royce Silver Ghost motor car. Outside Cat and Fiddle, Buxton, at a rally
Date[1907]
DescriptionThe photograph is endorsed with a note that it was given to F S Ogden in 1961 and that it dated from 1908. However, the same image features in Peter Pugh's book "Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name: The First Forty Years of Britain’s Most Prestigious Company, 1904-1944" (Icon Books, 2015) and this dates the photograph to 22 Jun 1907. The photograph is accompanied by a paper caption which identifies the driver of the second vehicle from the left (bearing the registration AX205) as the co-founder of Rolls-Royce, Charles Rolls (1877-1910).
This document is number 43 in Derbyshire Record Office’s “50 Treasures” selection. For more information, click the link below.
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorOgden family of Stanley
Useful Linkshttps://recordoffice.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/treasure-43-an-early-rolls-royce-photograph/
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