Rolls-Royce cars through the years
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Rolls-Royce Twenty with barrel sided tourer body - note rear Auster screen to protect passengers when hood is down (photo: Richard Fenner)
1933 20/25 model by Mann Egerton (photo: Richard Fenner)
HJ Mulliner produced this rakish open coachwork on a 1936 V12 Phantom 111 - note the kneeling mascot used on certain pre and early postwar models (photo: Richard Fenner)
Elegant and rare a 1939 Rolls-Royce Wraith with sleek Park Ward coachwork (photo: Richard Fenner)
1982 Silver Spirit and 1980 Silver Shadow (photo: Richard Fenner)
Barker-bodied 1926 20HP tourer with 25/30HP model with Thrupp & Maberly coachwork (photo: Richard Fenner)
A regal 1949 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith by Simpson & Slater (photo: Richard Fenner)
As popular as they are elegant a 1973 Rolls-Royce Corniche FHC (photo: Richard Fenner)
2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn (photo: Richard Fenner)
A fine selection of of Thirties Phantom II models (photo: Richard Fenner)
1920 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Brougham by Kellner (photo: Richard Fenner)
Period Gurney Nutting fabric coupe bodywork on 1930 Rolls-Royce 20/25 (photo: Richard Fenner)
1951 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn (photo: Richard Fenner)
1978 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II (photo: Richard Fenner)
Today’s sporting coachwork on a 2013 Rolls-Royce Wraith (photo: Richard Fenner)
1934 20/25 by HJ Mulliner offers style as well as roomy formal coachwork (photo: Richard Fenner)
1947 Silver Wraith coupe lent a certain elan by Freestone & Webb (photo: Richard Fenner)
This special-bodied Silver Dawn of 1951 has Italian flair courtesy of Farina (photo: Richard Fenner)
2019 Rolls-Royce Dawn makes own unique statement (photo: Richard Fenner)
2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan, the first purpose-built production SUV ever made by the company (photo: Richard Fenner)
Prize-winning 1919 Silver Ghost outshines even Burghley House - as befits the transport of ex-Maharaja of Patiala (photo: Richard Fenner)
Winner of Master’s Class an elegant 1928 Phantom 1 dual cowl tourer offers shielding for the rear passenger’s legs and their own windscreen (photo: Richard Fenner)
A car to arrive in - a 1928 Phantom 1 landaulette by Park Ward (photo: Richard Fenner)
1929 20HP model with coachwork by Windover (photo: Richard Fenner)
Touring in the grand style a 1933 Phantom II by Thrupp & Maberly (photo: Richard Fenner)
Prize-winner at Burghley for best car owned by someone under 30 years of age - a 1975 Silver Shadow (photo: Richard Fenner)
1910 Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Silver Ghost by Gamble of Belfast (photo: Richard Fenner)
1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom 11 Continental with rakish Park Ward All Weather coachwork (photo: Richard Fenner)
1956 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud 1 with Hooper coachwork (photo: Richard Fenner)
1980 Rolls-Royce Carmargue and 1986 Bentley Eight (photo: Richard Fenner)
1981 Rolls-Royce Corniche; 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost & 2007 Rolls-Royce Phantom (photo: Richard Fenner)
2007 Rolls-Royce Phantom (photo: Richard Fenner)
1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and 1938 VDP-bodied 4 1/4-litre Bentley (photo: Richard Fenner)
A stylish contemporary turnout (photo: Richard Fenner)
Traditional jazz musicians set the tone at Burghley (photo: Richard Fenner)
Spirit of Ecstasy captured at Burghley (photo: Richard Fenner)
1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 with coachwork by Clark of Wolverhampton (photo: Richard Fenner)
A selection of lavish interiors
The lavish boudoir of a1926 Phantom 1 (photo: Richard Fenner)
The 1927 Phantom 1 tourer’s pristine display of quality dials greeted the driver of the Maharajah of Udaipur (photo: Richard Fenner)
Ddriver’s eye view of the 1929 Bentley 6 1/2-litre (photo: Richard Fenner)
Traditional values with a lighter touch on this 2008 Bentley Continental GTC (photo: Richard Fenner)
2019 Bentley Continental GTC interior can be as extravert as its owner (photo: Richard Fenner)
Up-to-the-minute practicality and style on the RR Culinan SUV (photo: Richard Fenner)
Elegant simplicity on this pre-war Derby Bentley’s dashboard (photo: Richard Fenner)
A typical postwar dashboard featuring clear instrumentation and luxurious inlaid wood veneers (photo: Richard Fenner)
Powerful engines
The essentially Edwardian Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost engine used two cylinder blocks of three cylinders each (photo: Richard Fenner)
The remarkably compact but complex V12 engine of a 1939 RR Phantom III (photo: Richard Fenner)
Essentially Edwardian Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost engine used two cylinder blocks of three cylinders each (photo: Richard Fenner)
Finishing touches
1929 Bentley mascot on a 6 1/2-litre model
The later Flying B mascot adorns many a fine Bentley
This beautiful glass mascot adorns a 1927 Hooper bodied Phantom 1 belonging to the Maharajah of Udaipur
Grille badges on a vintage Bentley
Detail from 2019 Bentley Continental GTC
A little light fettling should get this Phantom 1 back on the road
The entwined R radiator emblem did not change from red to black on the death of Henry Royce as commonly supposed
Spirit of Ecstasy mascot defines a Rolls-Royce