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MOTORING > CARS BY MARQUE > ROLLS ROYCE, BENTLEY
Rolls Royce and Bentley


Graham Robson
978 0 89689 2385
£12.99 save £7.00 (normal price £19.99)
256 pages, 300 illustrations, hardback

   

With 250 pages to tell the stories of both Rolls-Royce and Bentley, Robson's survey of the complex political corporate machinations is brief but comprehensive.
Each firm's inception and early history is recorded, as is the precarious financing of the inter-war years. Woven in are the stories of each of the R-R and Bentley model ranges produced. Many of the pictures are colour, but it's sad to see some poor reproduction. Robson's text is as well-researched and accurate as expected, and packed with information about technical developments to improve the product. It is bizarre that Robson's copy has been translated into American-English -'liters' and 'fenders' abound -and Bentley's 1926 refinancing by Woolf Barnato is converted into $7million. The mix of archive, static and brochure shots is relieved with recent Le Mans, factory and desert testing images. The best part is the full explanantion of Vickers' recent combined sale of one firm to two buyers simultaneously, with attendant bruised corporate egos.

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Classic and Sports Car
July 2006
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