The very first production Jaguar D-Type to roll off the line in 1955 will star in Bonhams’ Goodwood Festival of Speed sale on 11 July.
The 1955 3.4-litre Jaguar D-Type Sports-Racing Two-Seater, chassis no. XKD 509, was raced in the USA by Lou Brero Sr in 1956 – 57. It was subsequently preserved for many years […]

Investors in Expro, the UK oil services provider, will tomorrow ask a judge for a lengthy delay in approving a £1.8 billion takeover by a private equity consortium in an attempt to allow rival suitor Halliburton, the world’s second-largest oilfield contractor, to rebid for the company. www.timesonline.co.uk

A rare first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma fetched a record-breaking £180,000 at a Bonhams London auction.
The Book was inscribed on behalf of Austen to her close confidante, the governess Anne Sharp.
One of only 12 presentation copies printed, which otherwise went to family members and publisher John Murray’s contacts, it was the only one given […]

Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place on 24 June and realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 - the highest ever total for an art auction held in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Le bassin aux nymphéas, a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet which realised £40,921,250 / $80,451,178 / €51,683,539, […]

Two paintings by the visual poet of the industrial landscape, Laurence Stephen Lowry R.A. (British, 1887-1976), belonging to the environmentally conscious Co-operative Financial Services (CFS), will go under the hammer in Bonhams next sale of 20th Century British Art on 2 July, New Bond Street. LS Lowry’s The Footbridge, (estimated at £120,000-180,000) and The Farm, […]

A decommissioned Royal Navy Sea Harrier FA2 was in service between 1987 and 1997 is up for sale on eBay.
The aircraft no longer flies, there is no engine and many of the internal systems have been removed or made inoperative and the cockpit has been stripped out.
The aircraft is located in Bradford.

A Bentley once owned by actor Sir Sean Connery has fetched over £17,000 at an auction of Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars at Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire.
The 1961 Bentley’s logbook revealed that Connery owned the car for five years from July 5, 1974. The S2 Saloon was estimated to sell for between £12,000 and £15,000 but […]