By Malcolm Tucker. This book covers the recent history of BMW's acquisition of
Rolls-Royce Motorcars, their construction of a new facility in Goodwood,
Sussex, and the design and manufacture of their new car, the Phantom. Only a
very few copies remain.
Malcolm Tucker has had a life-long interest in
Rolls-Royce cars, having restored several to national concours winning
condition. Joining the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts' Club in 1963, he became the
club's youngest chairman in 1989. Following which, he launched Pinnacle magazine,
"The magazine for International Rolls-Royce and Bentley Owners" on
behalf of the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation. He has written five
children's books on engineering subjects and edited seven others for Merlion
Publishing, a division of Penguin Books.
He has also edited various souvenir programmes for the
Rolls-Royce Enthusiast's Club, the latest being for Her Majesty The Queen's
Golden Jubilee Celebration at Windsor. He has contributed to several motoring
magazines. The Goodwood Phantom: Dawn of a New Era is the first of
three books he has written for Dalton Watson Fine Books, the other being the
sister publication, The Goodwood Phantom Drophead Coupe, and the third, Rust
in Peace.
- Hard bound with dust jacket
- 215 pages
- 280mm x 280mm
- 230 photographs and diagrams