03-12-2021, 04:50 PM
A7 was first registered to a Willoughby Hyett Dickinson of Kensington, one of the " great and good ". A Liberal MP, awarded the DSO for a bombing raid over Constantinople in WW1 and enobled in 1930 to Baron Dickinson. This 1900 Daimler was supposedly owned originally by King Edward V11, when Prince of Wales, before vehicle registration, later bought by a Lord Hastings in 1901, selling it in 1904. Later acquired by the Daimler Company and presented to the Queen in the '60s. The car had various registration numbers but had A7 restored back to it in November '71. It now formed part of the Queen's Collection and can be viewed at Sandringham.