THE MAGIC OF A NAME: THE ROLLS-ROYCE STORY THE FIRST 40 YEARS
Written by Peter Pugh
Published by Icon Books
in 2000
ISBN: 1840461519
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- TRANSPORT
- CARS
- ROLLS ROYCE
- COMPANY HISTORY
THE MAGIC OF A NAME: THE ROLLS-ROYCE STORY THE FIRST 40 YEARS
Written by Peter Pugh.
Stock no. 2125901
1st.
2000.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The fascinating story of the first forty years of Britain's most prestigious manufacturer - Rolls-Royce - a company whose record of achievements is part of the history of the twentieth century. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 340 pages. ISBN: 1840461519. A few minor marks to boards. Small (coffee?) stain to vertical edge of rear endpaper and a little to outer page edges at rear. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge-creased.
Front cover
Contents
- Names in Rolls-Royce
- Chapter One The Prime Movers
- Chapter Two 'The Most Perfect Cars'
- Chapter Three 'The Achievement of a Thinking Designer'
- Chapter Four The Acme of Refinement
- Chapter Five 'We Must Never be Satisfied'
- Chapter Six 'Are We In The Aero Engine Business?'
- Chapter Seven Preparing for War
- Chapter Eight 'The Whole Story is Engines, merlin Engines'
- Chapter Nine Holding It All Together
- Chapter Ten 'The Turbine Engines Have Arrived'
- Short Biographies