Cheapest Austin Seven ever 'sold'??

[Ian Wegg]

Not exactly sure what's going on there - a compulsory purchase order perhaps, at the buyer's price? 

Puts me in mind of certain car manufacturing plants which have recently been sold for 1 Russian rouble.

That's what it looks like to me too, compulsory purchase by the occupying forces rather than a genuine sale.

Rathole alert: 
Mr Tickle was no typist! Typewriters of that era normally had no key for the number 1. An amateur compensates by using a capital I (I), a trained typist knows to use a lowercase L (l).