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Bentley Mark VI & R-Type

Including the Bentley Continental and the Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn

New edition

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.
 

392 pages | 91 color plates, 318 halftones, 14 period advertisements, 47 illustrations | 8.46 x 11.22 | © 2024

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Origins and Design Philosophy
Chapter Two: Further Development
Chapter Three: Long boots and Automatics
Chapter Four: The Bentley Continental
Chapter Five: Designers and Builders
Appendix One: Owners’ Handbooks and Catalogues
Appendix Two: Technical Specifications
Appendix Three: Tables
Acknowledgments
Index

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