Lot details
Registration No: TF 3532
Chassis No: 101
Mot Expiry: Oct 2012

Many people have used the base of a mass produced car to create a special of their choice, while rather fewer individuals have constructed vehicles totally from scratch. Those that have done so to the perfection and quality of the one-off Waldron Wayfarer, however, are very small in number indeed. It was the product of one Frederick Barnes Waldron of Lancashire. The channel steel chassis was suspended by semi-elliptic springs at the front and quarter elliptics at the rear. Arguably the most extraordinary achievement of all was that Waldron even created the engine that powered his four-wheeled wonder - a 1246cc four-cylinder sidevalve unit with aluminium crankcase. He also designed the four-door Saloon's bodywork, the manufacture of which was entrusted to the St Helen's Carriage Works.

Once his brainchild was complete, he apparently embarked on a series of testing Continental tours and continued using the Wayfarer into the middle '30s, at which point he appears to have become disenchanted with it - totally dismantling the car before storing it in his stable. Following his death in 1976 at the age of 94, the unique Saloon was discovered and rescued by enthusiast Peter Relph, who then set about its painstaking restoration. Remarkably, all the original body panels were retained and the only part of the ash frame that required replacement was an area rotted by water from the leaky stable roof. The work was completed in time to display the Wayfarer at the St Helen's Show in 1980, since when it has passed through the hands of John Neal of Prescot and Peter Lovering of Formby before being acquired by the vendor in April 2005 from a Mr Alan Burman's family of Northamptonshire. She is now selling it complete with extensive history, blueprint of the engine and an MOT into October 2012. A delightful vintage car of impeccable and fascinating provenance.