THE Jeep former Second World War commander and US president Dwight D Eisenhower drove around his Scottish estate is to be sold at auction.
Eisenhower oversaw the successful Allied assault on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 and the liberation of western Europe. He later becoming the 34th president of the United States in 1953.
In 1946, the National Trust for Scotland gave Eisenhower a Jeep, along with the keys to an apartment in Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast, in recognition of his work in masterminding crucial Second World War operations.
The 1944 Willys-Overland Military Jeep is described by auctioneers at Cheffins in Cambridgeshire as being in full working order. It has been given a pre-sale estimate of between £120,000 and £150,000 ahead of an auction.
Jeremy Curzon, director of vintage auctions at Cheffins, said Eisenhower regarded the apartment in Culzean Castle as a “second White House” when he was in office from 1953 to 1961, and would often drive around the estate and the nearby village of Maybole in the Jeep.
It will be auctioned at Cheffins’ Machinery Salesground in Sutton, Cambridgeshire, on April 18.
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