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1947 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith Hooper Touring Limousine WVA10
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1947 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith Hooper Touring Limousine WVA10 for sale
Current customer rating: (201 votes ) based onChassis No. WVA10 Reg No. JYT994 Price £55. 00
Snippets: The Diplomat's Ladies
WVA10 was ordered by Sir James Leishman Dodds a career diplomat whose postings included Madrid. Berne. Stockholm. The Hague. Teheran. Tokyo. Bolivia. Cuba & Peru. His father was Sir James Miller Dodds. a civil-servant being the Under-Secretary. Scottish Office (1909/21); James L. Dodds studied at Oxford University and whilst there he. Michael Nethersole (later RFC. DSC. CIE & Commissioner for Indian Civil Service) & a Mr. Gamble were all charged with being drunk & disorderly and with assaulting a Cinema Attendant who had earlier that evening thrown them out of the Palace Cinema! By 1919 James had entered the Foreign Office and slowly made his way up the career ladder from 3rd Secretary to acting counsellor to counsellor to Ambassador. In 1927 he met and married the young glamorous widow Bertha Etelka (Surtees) Bell whose husband. Edward Bell (1882/1924) had also been a career diplomat. Edward Bell was the nephew of the publisher & notorious James Gordon Bennett Jr. his mother being Jeanette Gordon Bennett. Edward was a close friend of F. D. Roosevelt having attended Harvard University at the same during the early 1900s. Sir James's step-daughters Evangeline & Virginia themselves went onto to live the life of a Diplomat's wife with Evangeline marrying David K. E Bruce (American Ambassador in France 1949) (ex-husband of Alison Mellon) & Virginia to Ashley Clarke (British Ambassador in Rome 1953).
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