The first Daimler Double Six VDP off the production line for sale with H&H Classics
Originally finished in Garnet Metallic with Chamois interior, it was dispatched on 8th November 1972 and subsequently sold to its first owner, J Dale Ltd of London N1, via dealers Reeve & Stedeford of Birmingham. It was road registered under the mark GON 51L on 1st February 1973.
LONDON
.- Once in a while something really special comes along that need the love of a new owner to restore it to past glory. Just such a car is Chassis Number One, the very first Daimler Double Six Vanden Plas LWB Saloon made. It will be sold at No Reserve by H&H Classics on March 24 in a live auction online. Matching Chassis and Engine Numbers.
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Carlos Rafael, who went to federal prison in November 2017 after pleading guilty to over 20 offenses, including false labeling of fish and falsifying federal records, may be spending his first day out of federal custody since 2017.
Thursday, March 4, is his projected release date, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. Rafael, 68, was scheduled to report to prison on Nov. 6, 2017. He was sentenced to 46 months, which would have meant a September 2021 release date.
Rafael was assigned to the Federal Medical Center Devens a federal prison for male inmates that need specialized or long-term medical or mental health care.
On April 30, 2020, he was transferred to community confinement under the Philadelphia Residential Reentry Management office, said Emery Nelson, a spokesperson for the bureau.
NEW BEDFORD After being forced to leave business at sea following a federal settlement, Carlos Rafael, in yet another move, appears to be setting roots on land.
The winning bidder of the former Merchants National Bank property that sold at auction last month was Bliss Investors LLC, a company managed by Rafael s family.
The historic structure, which sits at the intersection of William and Purchase streets in downtown New Bedford, sold at auction in late January.
Justin Manning, president of JJManning Auctioneers, said in an email last month that the property sold for $770,000. There were nine registered bidders, but he said they do not disclose their names.
16 February 2021 By Phoebe French
A war-time Citroën truck found in a Bordeaux vineyard and painted with symbols associated with the French Resistance is to be put up for auction.
The WW2 truck as it is now. Image: H&H Classics
The truck, which had been converted from a 1924 Citroën B12 9cv car, was found abandoned in a Bordeaux vineyard by a British tourist in the early 1990s.
The owner of the vineyard, Ernest Carrier, said the vehicle had belonged to his father who had used it on the farm and on occasion to transport members of the Resistance.
NEW BEDFORD Two former employees of Buyers and Sellers Exchange (BASE) are alleging owners and brothers Raymond and Richard Canastra were aware of and involved in Carlos Rafael s falsifying of fish quotas, according to two affidavits filed last week as part of an ongoing lawsuit.
In their written statements, signed in September 2020 under the penalties of perjury, former BASE employees Peter Medeiros and Nelson Couto allege Raymond Canastra and Rafael instructed them to destroy and falsify paperwork detailing the species and quantity of fish caught an important record that must be submitted weekly to the federal government.
Medeiros, who said he worked at BASE from 2006 to 2018 as general manager overseeing unloading of vessels, wrote the Canastra brothers instructed him to handle the unloading of Rafael s groundfish boats differently from all other groundfish boats starting in 2010.