Seen at Transport Trust's annual Awards Ceremony at Brooklands Museum in June 2017 - where Prince Michael of Kent went for a spin.
The remains of the vehicle, which had been damaged in a bush fire, were purchased and imported in 2007, as an almost mechanically complete unrestored rolling chassis. The car was built by Sir John Isaac Thornycroft in Thornycroft’s Basingstoke factory as a special order for Lady Thornycroft’s second cousin, the remarkable ‘Cattle King’, Sir Sidney Kidman, who in 1908 owned over 100,000 square miles of Australian territory. Fortunately, the Thornycroft archives were to be scrapped and were acquired for the National Motor Museum library. Most of these archives were subsequently offered to Milestones Museum which was opened in Basingstoke in 1999, and the car’s current owner has had full access to these to assist with the restoration, allowing an excellent degree of authenticity and accuracy to be achieved. For the present, the car sports replica TT bodywork but the owner has had a correct replica of touring body constructed which will be fitted soon. Restoration has been undertaken to a high standard and mostly by the owner who has scrupulously followed the manufacturer’s original vision and specification.

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