Bernard L King

Rolls-Royce: The Classic Elegance was first published in 1987. Written by Lawrence Dalton, a life long motor enthusiast, Rolls-Royce: The Classic Elegance has been out of print for some years. Now in this second edition, authority Bernard L. King has radically revised, with thousands of changes and additions, all the captions and the production details of the Silver Wraith, Phantom IV and Phantom V, plus the coachbuilt Silver Dawns, Silver Cloud I, II and III chassis, utilising his database that encompasses all Bentley and Rolls-Royce motor cars produced up until 1965. For the first time, the data is presented in a standardised format and will prove invaluable to the enthusiast who wants to identify the body on a particular chassis along with its date of completion, first owner etc. Other book references for each coachbuilt car are added for the first time and this will be immensely useful for tracing further photographs and information. Over five hundred illustrations, mostly black and white photographs plus a 16 page colour section, cover practically every different body design mounted on post-war Rolls-Royce up to 1986 and include photographs of interiors and some coachbuilders drawings.

A reprint of the 13 rare 1930s magazines published by Bentley Motors describing how owners of Derby Bentleys toured with their cars during that period. The first volume contains the magazines, the content of which illustrates the lifestyle of pre-World War II society. Since then the photograph locations have changed dramatically with the proliferation of the motor car. The magazine articles were often written and photographed by the Bentley owners themselves, providing charming and entertaining content. The second volume includes an extensive introduction which identifies the majority of the cars (something Bentley Motors failed to do at the time of publication) and exhaustive indices of the cars, chassis and registration numbers and the locations in which they are photographed.