By Johnnie Green. Edited by Peter Hageman, Bernard L. King and Martin Bennett. A new edition of a classic with completely revised
captions. Since it was first published in 1969, Bentley: Fifty Years
of the Marque by Johnnie Green has been the foundation of any Bentley
enthusiast's library. To meet demand, the book went through several
re-printings. However, much further information has come to light about the
featured cars. Dalton Watson commissioned three leading Bentley experts to
completely rewrite the captions and substantially recompile the index.The same
quality of picture reproduction, printing and binding that has become the
hallmark of Dalton Watson have been retained.
Hundreds of alterations have been made since the last
edition was printed!
The Editors: Peter Hageman was born in The Netherlands
in 1951 but has spent most of his life in Seattle, Washington, USA. He
inherited his love of vintage cars from his father, acquiring his first car, a
1930s Packard, when he was thirteen years old. Peter was the Bentley Driver's Club
chairman for the North West USA region for ten years and has judged vintage
Bentleys at both the US National Rolls-Royce Owner's Club meets and at the
Pebble Beach Concours in California. He now serves on the Advisory Board of
Pebble Beach and is also a consultant to Bentley Motors.
Bernard L. King, a native of Surrey, England, was involved
in the travel and airline industries throughout his working life. Now retired,
he has been able to indulge his passion tracking down and listing vintage
aircraft and Bentley and Rolls-Royce motorcars. A historian rather than a
technical expert, he has developed a huge database which has enabled him to
self-publish many books, including the Complete Classics series of
Rolls-Royce and Bentley books. He is the proud owner of a 1954 Bentley R-type
Hooper "Empress".
Martin Bennett was born in Gloucestershire, England in
1949, and still spends time there despite living in Australia for most of his
life. He is the author of a number of successful books on Rolls-Royce and Bentley
cars, notably Rolls-Royce and Bentley: The Crewe Years and Bentley
Continental. Martin was also editor of the Rolls-Royce Owner's Club of
Australia journal, Praeclarum, for twenty years, He owns two Bentleys, an
S1 James Young saloon and a T series saloon.
- Hard bound with dust jacket
- 321 pages
- 190mm x 250 mm (portrait)
- 581 mainly black and white photographs