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Registration No: N850 JNO
Chassis No: SCBZR15C9TCH57638
MOT: May 2025
The name of James Young has been synonymous with the highest standards of craftsmanship since the early days of the age of the motor car. Having been a coachbuilder famous for high-quality carriages since the mid-1800s, the company’s first commission for automotive coachwork came in 1908 when a sitting Member of Parliament engaged it to clothe a Wolseley chassis. From the 1920s there began a long association with Bentley and Rolls-Royce and by the late 1930s, following the end of the Great Depression and the appointment of new chief designer Mac McNeil (recently poached from Gurney Nutting & Co), the company was producing designs that became increasingly sought after by discerning clients the world over. Sadly, by the 1960s the coachbuilder’s art was no longer in commercial demand and the final James Young bodies would adorn the Rolls-Royce Phantom V before the company’s demise in 1968.
For more information, please contact:
John Markey
john.markey@handh.co.uk
01428 607899
Auction: Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 9th Oct, 2024
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