The Coachwork of Erdmann & Rossi

In the years before World War I, Berlin was the centre of an in¬tensely competitive German coachbuilding industry. Rupert Stuhlemmer looks at the role of one of the most prominent companies of those days, whose production spanned the years until the mid-forties. These were years of great change, both in Germany and for Erdmann & Rossi, but they steadily built a reputation for the construction of elegant bodies on such chassis as Mercedes Benz, Rolls Royce, Horch, Maybach, Derby Bentley and Bugatti to name just a few. As the illustrations in the book richly show, it was not only luxury cars that the company manufac¬tured: they were involved with military and commercial vehicles, aeroplanes and the controversial but serious art of streamlining. The author has included a mine of valuable and well researched information that should be of interest to everyone who has an enthusiasm for individual motor cars. To the rear of the book, there is a sample register of bodies produced during the period March 1934 to April 1942. It is not a complete record, but it does list major marques: Mercedes Benz, Rolls Royce, Bentley etc. By model, chassis number, engine number type of body and by whom it was commissioned.