VERY SCARCE ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTO IN CONNECTION WITH - THE BID TO KIDNAP PRINCESS ANNE AND CAPTAIN MARK PHILLIPS: THE FORD ESCORT USED BY THE GUNMAN IAN BALL.

THIS IS A RARE ORIGINAL 6.5" X 8.5" APPROXIMATELY SYNDICATION INTERNATIONAL - BLACK/WHITE PRESS PHOTOGRAPH OF: FORD ESCORT USED BY THE GUNMAN IAN BALL IN AN ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP ANNE AND MARK - 1974

PRESS DETAILS ON REVERSE OF PHOTOGRAPH: BID TO KIDNAP ANNE AND MARK. AT FIRST LIGHT ON THURSDAY (21-3-74) POLICE WERE CARRYING OUT AN INCH-BY-INCH SEARCH OF THE AREA FOLLOWING THE PREVIOUS NIGHT'S ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP PRINCESS ANNE AND CAPTAIN MARK PHILLIPS. THE POLICE COMBED THE  AREA OF THE MALL, NEAR BUCKINGHAM PALACE, WHERE SHOTS HAD BEEN FIRED AT THE ROYAL CAR. THE BIG LIMOUSINE AND THE FORD ESCORT CAR USED BY THE GUNMAN HAD BEEN LEFT IN POSITION OVERNIGHT. THEY WERE LATER REMOVED FOR FORENSIC EXAMINATION. MEANWHILE, AT BOW STREET COURT, IAN BALL, A 26-YEAR-OLD LONDENER, APPEARED ON A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO MURDER PRINCESS ANNE'S BODYGUARD, DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JAMES BEATON. PS: THE CAR USED BY THE GUNMAN IS TOWED AWAY ON A TRAILER. DATED MARCH 1974 -THE DATE WHEN THIS WOULD HAVE APPEARED WITHIN THE PRESS.

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