There are white wire wheels with brass wheel nuts, black fenders (the rear ones being replicated rubber to prevent damage when dismounting the basket and balloon canopy). The front ones are pinstriped in cream.

The front compartment side door has stainless steel hinges, the bi-fold bonnet gives access to a magnificent engine with chrome and brass piping. There is a starting handle below the pent roofed radiator cowl, a rear fuel tank and brass rear lanterns with red reflectors. On the right side of the driver is a horn bulb, brass flexi-tube and brass horn and the spare wheel/tyre secured with real leather straps.

There are wood effect running boards with brass edging strips and an acetylene bottle for the lights. The underside is highly accurate with sump, engine clutch housing, propshaft, rear differential casing, driven axle and grey metallic exhaust with two silencers for the whisper quiet operation Henry Royce was reknowned for.

Charles Rolls was an aviator and balloonist of some distinction, a friend of Bleriot who arranged to celebrate his Channel crossing with his own light aircraft which he modified from the original design. Regrettably, it is thought that these modifications resulted in the tail parting company when he also was attempting to fly across the English Channel resulting in his early death in 1910 just after he had taken delivery of this customised car.

There are four small defects:- 

1) The AA radiator mascot is missing but is an etched plated item which could be obtained from a donor example of this car (It slots into a groove in the brass radiator cap).

2) One of the two leather fold down roof tensioning straps is broken with the upper part missing but not the buckle which is still attached to the bottom strap fixed to the chassis. Very thin tan leather could be cut with a modellers knife (taking care to avoid injury) and then the back of the leather could be sanded with 3000 fine grit abrasive paper to a thickness matching the bottom strap and reglued in place.

3) The lid of the nearside wooden battery box is missing (see final picture of how it looked) & can be fixed by a thin matching plastic wood laminate or wood veneer cut to size with a modellers knife & carefully glued in place with a minute amount of superglue or contact adhesive.

4) The red paint on the upper offside bonnet and offside front mudguard is slightly paint rashed but this can be corrected with care using a cotton earbud and some automotive paint restorer (a very small quantity) & buffed.

Thereapart, the balloon basket is still in its pink tissue wrapping (so penultimate picture is of a similar model) and the white polystyrene box is clean & hardly marked. The layout brochure for the car is included together with the C of A from the manufacturer. The replica in its travel clamshell will be enclosed in a stout cardboard carton prior to despatch.