AT - A 7
Description
A 7 did start life as a Royal car, but not on the current registration. It was allocated to Willoughby Hyett Dickinson who in 1900 was elected chairman of London county council. He died in 1943 but it's not clear what happened the plate until it resurfaced in the 1970's. A Daimler manufactured in 1900 was the first car owned by a member of the royal family, the then Prince of Wales (later to become Edward VII). A year later it was owned by Lord Hastings of Melton Constable, in his ownership it was heavily modified and sold in 1904. In 1907 John Bone, a coachbuilder, owned it and again heavily modified it. It was laid up before World War I and Daimler bought the vehicle in 1930. They used it in the 1946 Daimler jubilee cavalcade and in the 1960's presented it to the Queen and it was later restored by the Veteran car club and by 1971 was re-registered as A 7. It has previously worn AH 65, BJ 56 and FRW 767. The car is now in the Sandringham Collection. - All 1x1 info credits to the singlesingle registry again.