Storage facilities are useful for storing personal possessions that may not be financially valuable but must be kept safe. However, sometimes extremely valuable items are stored.
In Bath, a Vampire RAF advanced training aircraft built in 1952 is displayed at the entrance to a new storage facility. To get it through the front door, it had to be split into eight parts and then reassembled once inside the building. It isn’t easy to estimate the value of this aircraft, but it is estimated to be worth a sum of at least six figures.
When someone abandons a storage unit the contents are sometimes auctioned, sight unseen, so exactly what someone is buying is a surprise. In 1989. an American storage unit’s contents were auctioned. The buyer paid $100 and was delighted to discover he owned a white sports car. Though it was in poor condition with no wheels and a dented roof, the car had featured in the James Bond film “The Spy Who Love Me.” The car was later sold at auction for £1 million to Elon Musk.
Another surprising find by someone who bought storage unit was a copy of Action Comics No 1, the first comic to feature Superman, and valued at $1 million. The new owner intended to sell it but then discovered that the rare comic had been reported stolen eleven years earlier by actor Nicholas Cage, who had purchased the comic in 1995.
Whatever you want to store, valuable or not, Merseyside Movers & Storers provides safe and secure storage in Liverpool.
