Beatles' Rolls Royce auctioned off by C/H
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PrintThe Beatles' Rolls Royce is auctioned off by Sotheby's for $2,090,000. It was purchased by Jim Pattison, president of the 1986 World's Fair (Vancouver) where it is to be displayed. The proceeds went to "alleviate" space problems at the Cooper-Hewitt.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, "The Torch," August 1985, p. 2.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1985