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Pre-War Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with a Finnish Connection

Oct 10, 2024

Pre-War Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with a Finnish Connection – A Talk by Sir John Stuttard, KStJ, JP, FCA, Lord Mayor of the City of London from 2006 to 2007.

3 p.m. at the Allen Room at St Anne’s Church, Soho, 55 Dean Street, London, W1D 6AF.

A lunch for those attending the talk is organised before the talk in the Great Hall of Lincoln’s Inn starting from 11.45 a.m. with welcome drinks and lunch from 12.30. 

Sir John has written a book Pre-War Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with a Finnish connection (available online).

In the 1920s as trade between Finland and the UK flourished, Finnish businessmen acquired Rolls-Royce motor cars.

Marshal Baron Mannerheim by Eero Järnefelt exhibited in the Ateneum 

The most famous Finn using a Rolls-Royce was Marshal Baron Mannerheim who used a 1915 Rolls-Royce as his staff car, which had been delivered to the Imperial Russian Army and came to be in Finland after Independence in 1917. It was used in 1924 after the Paris Olympics, conveying Paavo Nurmi (nine times Olympic gold medallist and three silver medals) as part of the welcoming party in Esplanadi, Helsinki.

The talk is free but before the talk a 3-course lunch in the Great Hall of Lincoln’s Inn with a welcome drinks reception is offered at the Members Common Room (MCR) – all £45.00 per person inclusive of VAT. Please note the dress code for lunch in the Great Hall is business or lounge suits, court dress or smart casual dress. 

Please email the Hon. Secretary at secretary@anglofinnishsociety.org.uk if you wish to attend the talk or lunch or both and specifying any dietary requirements.

Sir John’s book is available via Amazon. Net proceeds of sale will go to the Rolls-Royce charity (The Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation) which exists to provide prizes to auto-engineering apprentices, education about the history of Rolls-Royce cars and, most important, maintaining old records:

Pre-War Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with a Finnish connection : Stuttard, John: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Ateneum print of the 1907 advertising poster by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (even if not a pre-war Rolls-Royce)

Tour of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

Nov 29, 2024

Tour of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AH, Friday 29 November 2024. 

Following our popular FCDO tour earlier this year, we are organising another opportunity to enjoy this tour. 

Further details to be confirmed nearer the time. 

Traditional Finnish Christmas Lunch

Dec 17, 2024

Traditional Finnish Christmas Lunch at the Finnish Church in London

This day happens to be the 113th anniversary of the foundation of the Anglo-Finnish Society in 1911.

Further details to follow nearer the time