Modestine's history was very simple to research as I am only the 3rd owner in her 83 years and all three of us live/d in the same small village in East Sussex.
Dot. Enrico Masala kindly supplied the early history from records he holds in Italy.
12th February 1932 she left the production line and went to Pinin Farina for her berlina body to be fitted.
4th March 1932 road tested and offered for sale but remained unsold until 1937.
10th March 1937 bought by Paul Einzig, imported and registered in the UK ERF 294. He was a notable newspaper columnist writing principly on financial matters, the Robert Peston of his day. He also published some 50 or so books many dealing with decimalisation. His family have donated all his manuscripts and papers to Oxford University.
1969. Appears in the LMC register of Members owned by Mrs Ruth Telford-Einzig Paul's wife. Gerald Batt has a photograph of the car at an LMC event from around this time.
1974 Purchased by Philip Glynn a vet who would arrive in the Dilambda to attend to Margaret's horses when we lived at Horsted Keynes.
1978 Philip dismantles the car and embarks on a total restoration. The body is sent to the joinery workshop of my oldest school friend (we've known each other since we were 5!) for the ash frame to be repaired. A couple of days before Philip is due to collect the body an arson attack on the workshop totally destroys the body.
2002 Quite by chance I meet Philip and enquire after the Dilambda. He has had her rebuilt to almost a rolling chassis but lacks the funds to complete the job. I go for a look, am totally smitten, we agree a deal and she's mine. Morris Parry points me in the direction of the Carlton Carriage Co. body she now wears and the rest as they say is history.
http://www.lancia.myzen.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1239.0I have started to try and track down any Einzig family survivors discovering that there was a son and a daughter. The son Richard an architect died in the late 1980s and the daughter married so the trail went cold although with a bit more effort I could probably trace her.
Knowing Modestine's history makes her ownership all the more special and especially so that I now live in the village where she has spent most of her life to date.
Robin.
