An old car

Concerning ANL Munby:

As a young man, while working for the famous dealer Bernard Quaritch, he had acquired two medeival manuscripts which he then sold to finance a share in a 1925 type 40 Bugatti. It was a fine vehicle, but it was always breaking down, one of its gaskets giving repeated trouble. Munby repaired it with a piece of thick vellum cut from an old book. When people asked him the age of the Bugatti he was thus able to reply, "Parts of it date back to the fifteenth century."

John Mitchell 'Bibliomaniacs', in A Passion for Books.