Kidnap of the Flying Lady shows how a dextrous move by Sir Ralph Robbins netted £40 million for an unconnected and unrelated company, aero engine maker Rolls-Royce PLC. The story continues with how the famous plant at Crewe ended up making Bentleys under VW ownership and how BMW rather bizarrely buried a Rolls-Royce factory in Lord March's back garden in Goodwood.
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Walk into the local supermart of bookstores, leaf through the "business" section and within five minutes know the sum total of five best sellers. The "transportation" shelves typically offer little better: business histories that read like the old notes of a reporter or minutiae on a historical marque.Then comes Richard Feast, with his compelling saga of the world's most revered automotive name, its trials and (sometimes) self-inflicted tribulations, linked carefully and accurately to the industry around it and to the particular travails of British industry in the second half of the 20th Century. Filled with first-rate reportage and wonderful characters, it is a wonderfully spun, brilliantly paced history that no doubt will become a reference work for generations of car lovers and business watchers.
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This book is fantastic. It is a well researched look into the long chain of events that allowed the Germans to buy two prized English Legends, Rolls Royce Motorcars and Bentley. The author does not wag his finger or denounce the Germans from taking Rolls Royce away from the Brits. He lays it on the line. He details the bad decisions and market forces that eventualy forced the English automaker's hand. This book must be read for its look into the automotive industry. This book is not filled with dreamy eyed descriptions of "the best car in the world." The various executives who speak in the book are realistic in describing the problems Roll Royce had suffered over the years, regarding build quality and financial issues.
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The scene is the neatly manicured private golf club at Neuenander-Donau in Bavaria, southern Germany, early on the morning of July 28, 1998. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Silver Shadow, Silver Seraph, Silver Spirit, Bentley Motors, Rolls-Royce Motors, General Motors, Land Rover, Bernd Pischetsrieder, Silver Ghost, Project Rolls-Royce, Cosworth Engineering, Aston Martin, Tony Gott, Claude Johnson, Park Ward, Peter Ward, Prince Jefri, Second World War, Sir Ralph Robins, Spirit of Ecstasy, Charles Rolls, Conduit Street, Schneider Trophy New!
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The scene is the neatly manicured private golf club at Neuenander-Donau in Bavaria, southern Germany, early on the morning of July 28, 1998. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rationalised range, vehicle makers, car division, experimental department, engine business Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Silver Shadow, Silver Seraph, Silver Spirit, Bentley Motors, Rolls-Royce Motors, General Motors, Land Rover, Bernd Pischetsrieder, Silver Ghost, Project Rolls-Royce, Cosworth Engineering, Aston Martin, Tony Gott, Claude Johnson, Park Ward, Peter Ward, Prince Jefri, Second World War, Sir Ralph Robins, Spirit of Ecstasy, Charles Rolls, Conduit Street, Schneider Trophy New!
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- Spirit of Ecstasy (Writers Club Press) by Carolyn Charles on page 23, page 108, and page 196
- Ministry of Defence: Prices Paid for Spare Parts: [Hc]: [1992-93]: House of Commons Papers: [1992-93] by Great Britain on page 76, page 95, and page 181
- South Korea (Next Stop!) by Fred Martin on page 70, and page 99
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame on page 23
- Victorian Britain (Witness to History) by Ross Stewart on page 14
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