Rolls-Royce: The Classic Elegance - Tapa dura

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.

Laurence Dalton, a lifelong motor enthusiast, prepared his first book 'Those Elegant Rolls-Royce' in 1967, and founded Dalton Watson, to publish it. He wrote four other books, primarily on Rolls-Royce coachwork. Bernard L. King has had a lifelong passion for Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars and has privately published six volumes of his Complete Classics series detailing their production and sales. He also contributed to the editing of another Dalton Watson publication, 'Bentley - Fifty Years of the Marque' and is the author of 'Bentley Motors, On The Road.'