Bentley Mark VI & R-Type
Including the Bentley Continental and the Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn
Published on 27. December 2024
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-85443-319-0 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive celebration of the Bentley Mk VI.
The Bentley Mk VI was the best-selling model produced by Rolls-Royce Ltd when motor car production resumed at Crewe after World War II. This model later evolved into the R-Type and the Bentley Continental, as well as a Rolls-Royce counterpart, the Silver Dawn.
The most radical post-war change was the fitting of standardized pressed steel bodies, though some 20% of Bentley Mk VIs and somewhat lesser percentages of the R-Type and Silver Dawn models, as well as 100% of the Bentley Continentals, continued the pre-war practice of having custom bodies from such coachbuilders as Park Ward, Hooper, and H.J. Mulliner. Comprehensive histories of these and other coachbuilders are included in this book, and all cars fitted with coachbuilt bodies are listed. This is a companion book to Martin Bennett's Rolls-Royce: the Post-War Phantoms IV V VI and Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith.
The Bentley Mk VI was the best-selling model produced by Rolls-Royce Ltd when motor car production resumed at Crewe after World War II. This model later evolved into the R-Type and the Bentley Continental, as well as a Rolls-Royce counterpart, the Silver Dawn.
The most radical post-war change was the fitting of standardized pressed steel bodies, though some 20% of Bentley Mk VIs and somewhat lesser percentages of the R-Type and Silver Dawn models, as well as 100% of the Bentley Continentals, continued the pre-war practice of having custom bodies from such coachbuilders as Park Ward, Hooper, and H.J. Mulliner. Comprehensive histories of these and other coachbuilders are included in this book, and all cars fitted with coachbuilt bodies are listed. This is a companion book to Martin Bennett's Rolls-Royce: the Post-War Phantoms IV V VI and Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith.
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Edition
New Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Loughborough
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 301 mm
Width: 227 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
2366 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85443-319-0 (9781854433190)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Martin Bennett has served as the editor of two Rolls-Royce Owners' Club of Australia magazines and is the author of Rolls-Royce: the Post-War Phantoms IV V VI and Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, both also published by Dalton Watson.