Man, I hardly get a smile or a mint on my pillow when I check into a hotel nowadays, let alone a ride to and from said hotel in a coachbuilt Rolls-Royce, but that’s exactly what visitors to the Hotel Schweizerhof in Zürich Interlaken in the 1950s got – a ride in this 1931 Rolls-Royce […]
As Lentinello noted the other day, the Veteran Motor Car Club of America now allows vehicles up through the 1986 model year to participate in its tours and judging. For our Class of 1986 series, that simply means that we have another metric to judge a car’s collectibility by – would you see yourself driving […]
One of the several images that Ford of Britain has dug up from their archives to celebrate their centennial is the one above, in which Ford workers are assembling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. The aero engine assembly didn’t take place at Dagenham, rather at the factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, that Ford opened at the request […]