This incredible classic car was used by Sir Winston Churchill during World War Two. So it is no surprise that it has just fetched almost half-a-million pounds following an online auction. However, what perhaps is a surprise is that the former favourite of Britain’s celebrated war-time leader was sold from Germany. Unique: This Daimler used during World War Two by [...]
Two rare bottles of whisky salvaged from a shipwreck which inspired a book and film are to be auctioned. The collector’s items were part of the cargo on the 8,000-ton cargo ship the SS Politician which sank off the shores of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in 1941 and inspired the book and film Whisky Galore. The bottles, which have [...]
The Daimler DB18 Drophead Coupe transported Britain’s wartime leader between 1944 and 1949 and was used on his election trail.The Daimler DB18 Drophead Coupe transported Britain’s wartime leader between 1944 and 1949. It was built in Coventry in 1939, with coachwork by Carlton Carriage Company, and is one of only eight completed before war ended production. Four were destroyed by [...]
It was announced today that Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. of Rockingham, N.C. will conduct a Online Auction of a 1941 United States Navy N3N-3 Biplane for the United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of North Carolina. The Navy N3N-3 was built by the Naval Aircraft Factory and was the last biplane in US Military Service. The original use of [...]
Two ‘menacing’ life-sized cat bookends are being auctioned almost 70 years after they were ‘liberated’ from the Nazis. The carved oak figures are believed to have once belonged to Hitler’s Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering. They were picked up by RAF Squadron Leader Geoffrey ‘Butch’ Butcher after the British Army seized the Luftwaffe air base at Jever in Germany in 1945. [...]
Post war tanker’s crew helmet, VERY similar to the hard to find US Army WWII period helmets and LESS expensive! ALL this helmets need to be restored, due to small dents, small breakings, automatic buttons (studs) …. need restoration. The price is for ONE helmet, have about 15 for sale. May be a great time to buy one in time [...]
The online auction of RAF Neatishead, which was the eyes and ears of the country’s defence during the Cold War, ended yesterday evening. It was originally put on the website at the end of January and the February 8 deadline was extended after no successful bids were put in for the 25-acre site. Agent Nick Barlow, from Midlands-based Barlow Associates, [...]
For nearly half a century, his medals simply gathered dust in a locked drawer. Branse Burbridge rarely talked about his adventures as an RAF ace in the Second World War, not even with his closest family. But the medals told their own remarkable story. One was a Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, for his acts of gallantry in the face [...]
In this rarely seen photo, a group of marines celebrate on a mountain summit during World War Two as the Stars and Stripes flutters behind them in the breeze. If the scenery looks familiar, it’s because this is Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945 – and just moments earlier, five of the soldiers were caught on film erecting [...]
A rare copy of Mein Kampf signed by Adolf Hitler himself in his Berlin bunker just weeks before his death has sold for £42,000 at an auction in Shropshire – more than £35,000 above the expected price. Auctioneers at county firm Mullock’s had slapped a guide price of between £3,000 and £5,000 on the book. But they were delighted when [...]
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