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Sept 2020
Fred Trueman's Rolls-Royce sells for £31,000
The Yorkshire and England fast bowler's classic car went under the hammer at Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn on Saturday.
A 1967 Rolls-Royce Mulliner Park Ward, which was bought new by Yorkshire and England cricketer Fred Trueman, has sold at auction for £31,000.
The vehicle was one of 273 lots that went under the hammer at Tennants Auctioneers' site in Leyburn on Saturday.
Trueman, who died in 2006, was the first bowler to take 300 Test match wickets.
Some still consider him to be England's greatest ever bowler. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson once described him as the 'greatest living Yorkshireman'.
Trueman sold the vehicle, which was estimated to fetch between £25,000 and £35,000, in 1992.
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Top lot at the motor car, motorcycle and automobilia sale was a 1961 Jaguar MKII Saloon Concours Restoration, which beat its £45,000 to £50,000 estimate to sell for £71,000.
A 1956 Jaguar XK140 sold for £50,000 and a 1965 Mercedes Pagoda 230 SL Coupe, which had generated much interest pre-sale, more than doubled its estimate to sell for £48,000.
The sale resulted in a total hammer price of £426,715.
Tennants, which is a fourth generation family business, is one of the UK's largest antiques and fine art auctioneers. It holds about 80 auctions a year at its 80,000 square foot site in Leyburn.
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