Paul Jackson

1928 Originally with a Hooper Weyman Saloon body, later re-bodied by Compton as a four door Saloon GBM35

"I finally took delivery of the said car... a few weeks ago.  It was an education just to start it, but that said I drove it from Grays in Essex via the city of London, over Tower Bridge and home without a hitch. 

The 20hp chassis GBM35 was ordered in April 1928 by the world famous coachbuilders Hoopers.  It came off test 30 April 1928 and was delivered to Hoopers on 13 July 1928.  They fitted their own Weymann bodywork; a saloon with a division. The car was completed and then purchased by P.D. Griffith as described in John Fasal's book ‘The Rolls Royce 20’. The story goes that in 1936 the car was part exchanged at Jack Barclay for a later model. In September that year Jack Barclay sold GBM 35 to coachbuilder J. Compton of South London. The original invoice for this sale of £162.10  by Barclay himself.  Comptons rebodied the car to the design we see today with an up-to-date four door saloon style and enclosed spare wheel. The car still has the original Compton door plates, full-size metal sunroof and working semaphores. Not much is known about the car during and after the war years but it appears to have been freshened up at some point. The last registered owner of 16 years, Mr Alan Duke, now sadly deceased.

It then passed into a collection in Germany in 2018 and now onto me."