I understand that immediately after it was built this splendid Wolseley was shipped to a customer in Canada where it stayed for a while before being sold to Vermont after which it went to Connecticut then appears to have gone back to Canada before being bought by an English gentleman at Hershey and returned to the UK in the mid 1980s. 

Photographs of the car taken about this time show that although it was very original it had fallen into a fairly unloved state so its new owner undertook a fairly comprehensive refurbishment which I gather took him about twelve years to complete - apparently it was put back on on the road just in time for use at his son's wedding in 1997! The car subsequently had very little use and is now for sale as the owner sadly died two years ago. To make sure it is ready for the road his family have very recently had the car checked over and recommissioned as necessary by an experienced Wolseley afficionado.

Like any Wolseley of this era it is a very well built motor car and was clearly aimed at the upper end of the market. It has elegant and nicely painted narrow bodied sports-touring coachwork which still carries what looks very much like its original leather seating. The hood is no longer on the car but it does come with a set of wooden hood frames so you have the basis for reinstating it if you wanted to. The brightwork (radiator shell, lights etc) is all in very good condition so the car looks very good and the folding windscreen mechanism is a piece of engineering in its own right. It has a nice original dashboard with correct looking instruments and controls which all look very period. Having had its original air-starting system replaced at some stage with an electric unit, the Vickers Ltd six cylinder five litre engine fires up readily and sounds very sweet. The clutch is smooth and the four speed and reverse right hand lever operated gear box is very pleasant to use. Quiet gear changes can soon be achieved with a little practise though you don't really need to use the gearbox that much as the engine has so much low down torque that you can stay in top or third for most of the time. Although it is quite a big car you soon get used to it and being properly designed in the first place it steers and stops well so you can make full use of use the engine's power and just enjoy driving it.

In summary it is very much an Edwardian gentlemans sporting tourer which has masses of presence and will hold its own in any old car gathering a well as acquitting itself very well on the road. '