In Derby on 8th May 1933, 186MY was sold to Barker & Co Ltd of 66

South Audley Street, London WI for their customer, Captain John Wanamaker. The chassis

was a short Continental type, one of 281 made, with 'E' rake steering suitable for an owner

driver. The chassis delivered to Barkers on 11th May for fitting a Three Position

Drophead Coup? Body , referred to in Rolls-Royce records as a 'Coupe Cabriolet'. Barkers

made just four examples of this coachwork on a Phantom II Continental. The guarantee was

dated 8th June 1933 and sent to Barkers on 19th July 1933. The car was first registered as

AGN-343 May 1933 by the London County Council.

Captain John Wanamaker Junior (1889-1934) was a film director, the grandson of

John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia department store magnate. Captain Wanamaker served

with the US Army's 78th Division during WWI and headed communications and

transportation when President Woodrow Wilson was in France negotiating the Treaty of

Versailles. On Wanamaker's return to the United States, the sporty new. Rolls-Royce Coupe

was the perfect choice for the captain, who was well-known in society as an avid sportsman and

a successful speedboat racer in the US and in Europe. Regrettably, he didn?t own the car for

long as Wanamaker died unexpectedly on 30th November 1934, aged just 45.

In 1936, 186MY returned to England after being sold to Sir Terence James O?Connor,