Bentley Fifty years of the marquee, is mainly a pictorial tribute to that excellent motor-car written by Johnnie Green, a great car enthusiast, whose devotion to Bentley is unsurpassed, and a member of the Bentley Drivers Club, from where a mass of material was obtained. Nearly 600 photographs follo..
Bentley Fifty years of the marquee, is mainly a pictorial tribute to that excellent motor-car written by Johnnie Green, a great car enthusiast, whose devotion to Bentley is unsurpassed, and a member of the Bentley Drivers Club, from where a mass of material was obtained. Nearly 600 photographs follo..
Bentley Fifty years of the marquee, is mainly a pictorial tribute to that excellent motor-car written by Johnnie Green, a great car enthusiast, whose devotion to Bentley is unsurpassed, and a member of the Bentley Drivers Club, from where a mass of material was obtained. Nearly 600 photographs follo..
First published in 1989 "Bentley The Silent Sports Car" can be acknowledged as the ‘standard work’ on the Derby Bentley. Based on a fine collection of original coachbuilders’ photographs, the book looks at the development of the Derby Bentley. With a focus on the British coachwork aspect, there are ..
It is not often that an author of a motoring book can justly claim to have written a definitive work on his favourite subject at his first attempt. This is precisely the case with Michael Hay and this work on the vintage years of the Bentley. Based on a comprehensive collection of over 500 photograp..
When Giovanni Bertone opened his small artisan workshop in Turin in 1912 for the construction of horse drawn carriages, he never thought he was starting out on a long, multi-form but gratify¬ing adventure, which has now celebrated its 90th anniversary. This publication in two volumes retraces the pr..
Most of the books about Bugatti and his cars attempt to describe the life of the Patron, the mechanics of his cars or the racing careers. This book is different. It illustrates in 95 colour drawings by Kestler, backed up by contemporary photographs, the evolution of the coachwork designed by Ettore ..
The Bugatti Type 46 was announced in the autumn of 1929. The new Bugatti chassis, at almost twelve feet in length and powered by an 8 cylinder engine of 5.3 litres, was indented to be the basis of a superlative large luxury car – and so it proved to be. Bodied by the cream of European coachbuilders ..
This impressive register is the work of enthusiasts: Bohuslav Klein, Roland Saunier and Kees Jansen, all share passion for the Type46 and had a dream to gather information on the surviving examples of La Petit Royale. The book records over fifty surviving examples of the Type 46 listed in chassis nu..
Commencing with a brief history of the company ‘Delahaye Styling and Design’ celebrates the extraordinary coachwork produced in France on the Delahaye chassis by the likes of Figoni & Falaschi, Saoutchik, A. Guillore, Franay and Henri Chapron. A register of 28 fine examples of the 135, 135M 135M..
Alan and Richard Jensen set up Jensen Motors Limited in 1934 and in the pre-war years their handbuilt cars, a number of which were powered by Ford V8 engines, attracted a wealthy and exclusive clientele. Then, in the 1950s, appeared the sleek 541 which established Jensen as manufacturers of high per..
This is an expanded edition of a unique history of a most distinguished marque. It contains a wealth of contemporary material, covering models from the first 1904 twin-cylinder car, through to the Silver Ghost, 20hp, the Phantoms (1,2,3), 20/25, 25/30, Wraith, Silver Dawn, Silver Wraith and Silver C..
There are many enthusiasts who imagine that all coachwork moun¬ted on the Springfield Rolls-Royce was built by Brewster. By the time they have looked at all of the 446 illustrations in this book, John de Campi will have impressed upon them the error in their thinking. Within these pages are illustra..
The Second World War took its toll on coachbuilders, and in the following ten years most of the remainder ceased to build bodies. Rolls Royce factory bodies such as standard steel Silver Dawn, Silver Cloud and Phantom range, Silver Shadow and Corniche are illustrated in this book, although the main ..
Few men have had so profound an effect on the world's motor industry as Sir William Lyons and fewer still have left their own personal mark so clearly embedded in their pro-ducts. From the Austin Swallow to the XJ12, his cars have been HIS cars. Here now is an opportunity to appraise and appreciate ..
Documented for the first time, this is a history on the evolution of each of the four models of Rolls Royce 40/50hp cars: the Silver Ghost, New Phantom (Phantom 1), Phantom 2, and Phantom 3. Particularly careful research has been devoted to the hitherto little known experiential chassis proceeding e..
A magnificent photographic tribute to Rolls Royce motor cars built from 1907 to 1939. From the simple two seater tourer by Harrison on the 20 h.p. chassis, by way of the Indian exotica by Cockshoot on the Silver Ghost, to the sheer elegance of the Gurney Nutting sedanca drop-head coupe on the Phanto..
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, bot..
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