Some Focuses - I suspect hire ones - have a full-size spare which is mounted under a tray in the boot/hatch, rather like the Standard Ten.
Looks odd when you open the hatch, because the boot is much shallower than you are expecting.
...Silver Shadow with a flat battery...
I saw a Silver Spirit in Soho, London, years ago in a similar predicament.
The battery had flattened with the car in park.
You could move the column stalk - PRNDL - into N, but it did nothing because there was no power to operate the solenoids.
That was when he discovered the battery was in the boot - buried under several bits of plywood and a thick piece of Axminster.
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