Book 1 Original Rolls-Royce & Bentley 1946-65 The Restorer's Guide to the 'standard' saloons and mainstream coachbuilt derivatives 160 pages Hard cover 30 x 23 cm 1,054 kg English The two decades between 1945 and 1965 saw some remarkable motor cars emerge from the new Rolls-Royce factory at Crewe. The Mark VI Bentley was the first model to be built entirely by Rolls-Royce, using a body supplied by Pressed Steel, although coachbuilt cars continued to be available. The Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn version followed in 1949, this and its Bentley sister both receiving "big boot" bodies in 1952, the Mark VI becoming the R-type. Meanwhile the 120mph Continental appeared and became the undoubted pinnacle of Bentley motoring. Then the entirely new Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud and Bentley S-series, almost identical to each other, arrived in 1955 with a 4.9-litre engine, and from 1959 a 6.2-litre V8 was installed. By their side, coachbuilt S-series Continentals continued as bespoke grand touters. -------------------------------------- Book 2 Coachwork On Derby Bentleys, 3½-litre, 4¼-litre & Mark V - 1933-1940 199 pages Hard cover 28 x 22 cm 1,030 kg English In the 1930s, Rolls-Royce's Derby factory supplied Bentleys only as chassis, without bodies, and many customers for these refined, fast and enormously desirable cars would then turn to a particular coachbuilder to design and construct a body for them to meet their tastes and requirements. The customer might have some advice from the factory or the dealer about the coachbuilders he or she might consider, or, if the customer had no special requirements and no particular inclinations about styling or individuality, he or she might be directed to Park Ward, who offered a limited range of more or less standardised (and very attractive) designs that they offered at a more clearly defined price unless the customer wanted special variations.