Historics Auctioneers | Flight of Elegance; Farnborough International | 3rd May 2025

W.O. Bentley had a passion for the un-supercharged model. So much so that it was originally the 3-litre-powered car that he took to Le Mans and raced with great success. These are thus highly desired and the story of this...

tba • Chauffeur driven car for Field Marshal Montgomery during WWII • HM King George VI, Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower were driven in this car • The Phantom III was the only pre-war Rolls-Royce powered by a...

The acquisition of Bentley Motors in 1998 by Volkswagen AG brought an end to an era of almost eight decades of cars built by Bentley. Mulliner Park Ward, the coachbuilding division of Rolls-Royce that built this model of the...

Introduced alongside the Silver Cloud II and Bentley S2 in the Autumn of 1959, Rolls-Royce's new limousine model, the long-wheelbase Phantom V, effectively replaced both the royalty/heads-of-state-only Phantom IV and the...

By the end of the 1930s the 'Derby' Bentley, introduced towards the beginning of that decade following the firm's takeover by Rolls-Royce, had undergone a number of significant developments, not least of which was an...

The Bentley Turbo R was a high-performance model produced from 1985 to 1997 with a total of 7,230 built in the 12-year production period. The 'R' stood for 'Roadholding', to set it apart from its predecessor, the Mulsanne...

43,593 The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow was a luxury saloon car built from 1965 through to 1980 and was the first Rolls-Royce to be constructed using a monocoque chassis and, to date, has the largest production volume of any...

122,218 The Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph was first unveiled on 3rd March, 1998 at the Geneva Motor Show. It replaced the Silver Spur which ended production in 1997. All Seraphs were handbuilt at the Rolls-Royce factory in...

128,000 Successor to the R-Type, the Bentley S1 was introduced in 1955 with a whole new chassis; the car's wheelbase had been extended 3" to 123", and the luggage compartment was expanded. The S1 had softer suspension than...

90,850 The 2007 Bentley Continental GTC is a luxurious grand touring convertible that blends performance with elegance. Powered by a 6.0 litre twin-turbocharged W12 engine producing 552 horsepower, it accelerates from 0-60...

Thanks to Rolls-Royce, two of the foremost coachbuilders, H. J. Mulliner and Park Ward, joined forces to become arguably the most well-known automotive design house, Mulliner Park Ward. This very specific model was produced...

The Bentley Arnage was launched in 1998, a large luxury saloon car that replaced the previous Bentley Turbo saloon. Built by Bentley Motors in Crewe from 1998 to 2009, the Arnage and its Rolls-Royce sibling the Silver...

73,220 The Bentley Turbo R was a high-performance model produced by Bentley Motors Limited. It shared the Mulsanne's chassis and inherited the turbocharged engine from the Mulsanne Turbo. However, the Turbo R's V8 engine was...

63,422 The Bentley Arnage was launched in 1998, a large luxury saloon car that replaced the previous Bentley Turbo saloon. Built by Bentley Motors in Crewe from 1998 to 2009, the Arnage and its Rolls-Royce sibling named the...