YOUR SHOUT READERS’ LETTERS
YOUR SHOUT Got something to say about anything Rolls-Royce or Bentley related? Then we want to hear it! Send an email to rrb.ed@kelsey.co.uk or write to: The Editor, Rolls-Royce & Bentley Driver, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL
TO A GENEROUS OWNER I am compelled to write about my experiences with a pre-war RollsRoyce in Southport. My daughters and I had attended a regional classic car show last summer, where it was soon apparent that the majority of car owners had no intention of talking to us about their cars or letting us near enough to look into them. As we were about to leave, we saw a very attractive RollsRoyce with landaulette bodywork. Being an Armstrong-Siddeley man I was drawn towards its high-quality coachbuilding. Our day was very much recovered when not only the owner of the vehicle in question happily spoke at length, and in detail about the car but also let us sit inside and experience his West of England cloth for ourselves. So I would firstly like to thank whoever it was and secondly ask who the likely coachbuilder may have been, for I would very much like a similar car. Geoffrey Arbuthnot Lytham St Annes Quite a number of firms bodied Rolls-Royces in the 1920s and ‘30s, some offering landaulettes to those who favoured a convertible rear compartment. Top of the list would be Barker, Hooper, Thrupp & Maberley, perhaps Park Ward. To the owner - were you that man? It sounds a beautiful car. If you still have it, please get in touch, as we’d love to picture it in the magazine - Ed
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ROCK STAR ROLLS-ROYCE? As l have been a chauffeur for the rich and famous for 31 years, I thought it was time I bought a Rolls myself. I have recently bought a Shadow I from a well-known record producer, and he showed me this photo of an interesting project that was done for the cover of an Oasis album back in 1997. It reminded me of the RollsRoyce used on the cover of the Screaming Lord Sutch album that featured in From the Archives in
your last issue, so I thought I’d send it along. I don’t know what happened what to the Rolls in the pool, but I thought your readers might find it interesting. Paul Sutton Fricker Bath, Somerset Thanks Paul. In fact, your email got me started on a bit of a quest, which led me to the man who took the original photos. See page 88 for the whole story - Ed
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