Brochures and publications for
Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

Firstly, I will show a few pages from a brochure for the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. 16 pages, full colour.
“ The Substance of a Shadow ”
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The brochure below for the Rolls-Royce
Silver Shadow II,
again 16 pages in colour, is entitled
“ Deeper into the Shadow ”.
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Below is the booklet produced to mark 75 years of Rolls-Royce production. 46 pages of
Historical photographs and text.
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Similarly, a booklet was produced to mark 50 years of production at the Crewe factory of both Rolls-Royce and Bentley,
a few sample pages are shown below.
36 pages of fascinating pictures and text.
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Below are some pages from the 4 page B & W brochure about the history of the
Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy mascot.
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The booklet below is entitled “ Makers of the Best Car in the World ”,
a fine colour top  quality brochure with many delightful pictures of the manufacture of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. 28 pages, © 1982.
Shows woodwork, leather etc. and of course three large pages about the famous Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy Mascot.
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The next large brochure is entitled “ Quality is Timeless ”. A full fine
colour publication for Rolls-Royce by  Queste. C. 1994.  
30 pages about the making of a Rolls-Royce Motor Car.  
Some pictures relating to the Spirit of Ecstasy
Rolls-Royce Car mascot are shown below..
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The next brochure,  from which some pages are shown below, is my
FAVOURITE. It is entitled “ Pride of Britain, Envy of the World ”.
Produced for Rolls-Royce by Queste to mark 80 years of car production in 1984. 26 large colour pages. I have chosen to show some of the pages relating to Paul Tritton’s story about artists Jo and Charles Sykes and their designs for Rolls-Royce mascots.
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You may know that Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors sent out magazines on a regular basis entitled “ Queste ”. These were sent out from about the late 1970s to the 1990s.   Every now and then a very Special issue was produced..........I show below some pages from my own favourite, BENTLEY QUESTE.
© 1985     72 finest pages and photographs.
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Below is a VERY SPECIAL sales brochure for the Rolls-Royce and Bentley range ( excl. Phantom ) issued in 1978  and covering Silver Shadow 11,  Corniche ( both Rolls-Royce & Bentley ), Silver Wraith 11, Bentley T2 and Camargue.  21 superb colour pages inside the covers. ALSO 6 separate top quality prints suitable for framing; on the reverse of each one is the full spec. of the car. You will notice the error on the picture of the T2 outside LOBB’s shop, the wash leather is still hanging off the railing,
unspotted by the photographer !   
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Text and photographs are © John McGlynn
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