The RAF Museum Sale Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia
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The RAF Museum Sale Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia The Royal Air Force Museum, London I 21 November 2019 The RAF Museum Sale Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia The Royal Air Force Museum, London | 21 November 2019 VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Wednesday 20 November +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Motor Cars Monday to Friday 08.30 to 18:00 11:00 to 17:00 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7468 5801 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Thursday 21 November To bid via the internet please visit +44 (0) 20 7468 5802 fax from 09:30 www.bonhams.com [email protected] Please see page 2 for bidder information including after-sale Please note that bids should be SALE TIMES Automobilia collection and shipment submitted no later than 4pm on +44 (0) 20 8963 2840 Thursday 21 November: Wednesday 20 November. Thereafter +44 (0) 20 8963 2842 Automobilia 11:00 bids should be sent directly to Please see back of catalogue [email protected] Motor Cars 14:00 [email protected] for important notice to bidders SPECIALISTS SALE NUMBER We regret that we are unable to ILLUSTRATIONS accept telephone bids for lots with a Tim Schofield 25448 Front cover: Lot 243, 244 & 245 low estimate below £500. Absentee +44 (0) 20 7468 5804 Back cover: Lot 251 bids will be accepted. New bidders [email protected] CATALOGUE must also provide proof of identity £25.00 + p&p and address when submitting bids. Sholto Gilbertson Failure to do so may result in your +44 (0) 20 7468 5809 REGISTRATION bids not being processed. [email protected] IMPORTANT NOTICE Live online bidding is Rob Hubbard Please note that all customers, available for this sale +44 (0) 20 7468 5805 irrespective of any previous activity Please email [email protected] [email protected] with Bonhams, are required to with “Live bidding” in the subject complete the Bidder Registration line 48 hours before the auction John Polson Form in advance of the sale. The to register for this service. +44 (0) 20 7468 5803 form can be found at the back of [email protected] every catalogue and on our website at www.bonhams.com and should IMPORTANT INFORMATION Guy Newton be returned by email or post to the The United States Government +44 (0) 20 7468 8243 specialist department or to the bids has banned the import of ivory [email protected] department at [email protected] into the USA. Lots containing ivory are indicated by the symbol Richard Stafford To bid live online and / or leave Ф printed beside the lot number +44 (0) 20 7468 5800 internet bids please go to in this catalogue [email protected] www.bonhams.com/auctions/25448 and click on the Register to bid link PLEASE NOTE Ben Adams at the top left of the page. Properties included in the +44 (0) 20 7468 8242 auction do not form part of [email protected] The Royal Air Force Museum’s James Knight Collection +44 (0) 20 7447 7440 [email protected] Malcolm Barber +44 (0) 20 7 468 8238 [email protected] Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax General Information Admission Methods of Payment NOVA (Notification of Vehicle Arrivals) Bonhams has the right at its sole discretion without It is important you are aware of the following regarding Certain imported Motor Car and Motorcycle Lots marked “N” assigning any reason therefore to refuse admission registration and payment: in the catalogue are subject to a NOVA Declaration prior to the to its premises or attendance at any of its sales purchaser making an application to register the vehicle in the by any person. The name and address in which you register will be the name UK with the DVLA. and address on your invoice, if successful. We cannot amend EU Imports the details on your invoice, once issued. Furthermore, when Absentee Bids • Bonhams will undertake the NOVA Declaration on the making payment, the account from which the payment is Bonhams will execute bids when instructed. purchaser’s behalf, providing them with a NOVA reference sent must match the buyer’s details as per on the bidder number. Lots will be bought as cheaply as is allowed by other registration form and the issued invoice. bids and Reserves. Successful purchasers should contact Olive Spurrier We are unable to accept any third party payments. Should post-sale to confirm whether they intend to register the References a third party payment be made this will result in a delay vehicle in the UK, or intend to Export the vehicle immediately Intending Buyers should supply bankers’ references. in your payment being processed and your ability to collect The references should be supplied to Bonhams in your purchase. Non-EU Imports time to allow them to be taken up before the Sale. • If the Lot is purchased by a private purchaser wishing Unless arrangements are made with Bonhams for Purchases can only be released when full settlement (inclusive to register in the UK, Bonhams will arrange an agent to undertake the NOVA Declaration on the purchaser’s behalf, payment in advance of the Sale all Lots will be of all charges) of all invoices issued to the buyer is received in cleared funds. Before bidding, you should ensure that providing them with both a NOVA reference number and removed to storage immediately after the Sale at the C88 form. you have the necessary funds available and be able to pay Buyers’ cost. In any event, the Purchase Price should • If the Lot is purchased by a trade buyer / company, they be paid to Bonhams not later than 12 noon on the according to one of the methods set out below. All cheques will need to submit a NOVA Declaration themselves via: www. day after the Sale. Attention is specifically drawn should be made payable to Bonhams 1793 Limited. gov.uk/nova-log-in. N.B: Bonhams takes no responsibility for to Condition 6 of the Buyers’ Agreement as printed a purchaser’s failure to submit a NOVA Declaration and any in this Catalogue. Bonhams preferred payment method is by bank transfer. fines / charges levied against them as a result. • Bank Transfer: You may electronically transfer funds to our Bidder Registration Trust Account. Please quote your paddle number and Invoice VAT To recognise bidders during the Sale all intending number as the reference. Our Trust Account details are as follows. The following symbols are used to denote that VAT Buyers are required to complete a Bidder Registration Bank: National Westminster Bank Plc is due on the hammer price: Form giving full identification and appropriate Address: PO Box 4RY references before the Sale which will enable them to † VAT at 20% on hammer price. 250 Regent Street Ω VAT on imported items at 20% on hammer price. bid by means of a number allocated to them. London W1A 4RY VAT on imported items at 5% on hammer price. Sort Code: 56-00-27 * Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the hammer Premium Account Name: Bonhams 1793 Limited Client Bank Account • price or the buyer’s premium. Like the vast majority of auctioneers Bonhams charge Account Number: 25563009 what is known as a Buyer’s Premium on the Hammer Price of IBAN Number: GB 33 NWBK 560027 25563009 In all other instances no VAT will be charged on the hammer each Lot purchased and is subject to VAT. Some lots may also be subject to VAT on the Hammer Price and these lots will be If paying by bank transfer, the amount received after the price, but VAT at the prevailing rate (currently 20%) will be clearly marked with a symbol ( †, Ω, ) printed beside the lot deduction of any bank fees and/or conversion of the currency added to the buyer’s premium which will be invoiced on a VAT number in the catalogue. * of payment to pounds sterling must not be less than the inclusive basis. sterling amount payable, as set out on the invoice. Payment may also be made by one of the following methods: PLEASE NOTE FROM THE 4 MARCH 2019: Vintage Sports-Car Club For Automobilia the Buyer’s Premium is 27.5% on • Cash: You may pay for Lots purchased by you at this Sale Eligibility Documents the first £2,500 of the hammer price; 25% of the with notes or coins in the currency in which the Sale is Any eligibility document issued to the owner of a car is merely hammer price of amounts in excess of £2,500 up to conducted (but not any other currency) provided that the total to certify that the vehicle is eligible to compete in VSCC events and including £300,000; 20% of the hammer price of amount payable by you in respect of all Lots purchased by on the basis of the rules and regulations currently in force. It is amounts in excess of £300,000 up to and including you at the Sale does not exceed £3,000, or the equivalent not intended to be used for any trade or commercial £3,000,000 and 13.9% of the hammer price of any in the currency in which the Sale is conducted, at the time purposes. It does not provide any guarantee as to the amounts in excess of £3,000,000. when payment is made. If the amount payable by you for Lots standard of design, manufacture, condition or its authenticity, exceeds that sum, the balance must be paid otherwise than provenence or history.