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196080 pages. Features: Are Space Probes Worth It? - L.V. Berkner argues yes; Drama of the Secretary-General of the U.N. (Dag Hammarskjold) in photos; No, it is Not Money Down the Drain - foreign aid is doing some good - two Asian students speak; It's Now Forty Pay-Later Billions - article about American consumer debt; Venus Wasn't a Shot-Putter - article on athletic women and their attractiveness to men; 'My Friends' (You Assorted Nitwits) - humorous dissection of election speeches; Of the 'Peaceable Kingdom' - Edward Hicks was America's greatest primitive painter; Francisco Franco Ponders - What Kind of King will succeed him? - Don Juan or Juan Carlos; The Rolls-Royce Keeps Rolling Along - a look at the luxury auto brand; Magnificent color-photo centerfold ad for Rheingold lager beer features the candidates for Miss Rheingold '61 riding in a white Lincoln Continental convertible - Liz Gardner, Barbara Weingarth, Annette Cash, Peggy Jacobsen, Linday Bromley and Janet Mick; Nice color-photo ad for Dr. Posner scientific shoes; Article on Ocean Grove, NJ; How Black is the White Lie?; Interior design photos of built-ins - beds, closets, chests, etc.; Vintage ad for Puritron air cleaners; Numerous gorgeous color-photo fashion ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Moderate chipping and yellowing at periphery. A sound copy. Book
1947118 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Navigating the Weather Map; Douglas DC-6; Glider Training; The Aerial Photograph; Atomic Cyclone - the Cycloptron - article with photos, including full-page color photo of the M.I.T. cyclotron; Helicopter Forum; Fulll-page photo of the Convair XB-36 in flight; Biological Warfare - "There is No Defense"; This Field is Small - Use it All - an informal history of McCook Field, Ohio; The Diesel Engine in Aviation; Racing with Rolls-Royce Engines; Evolution of the Model Plane; Firefly 1; A.M.A. Records; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
1931Pages 257 - 352. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Features: World's Highest Frequency Oscillator Tube; Remote Control in Custom-Built Radio; Fingerprinting 'Noise'; Audio System Design Charts; A Set Tester Deluxe; What Goes On in Your Vacuum Tubes; Radio News Prize 'Ham' Transmitter; Our Future Broadcast Fare; Explorers of the Ether; The Latest All-Wave Receiver Design; Mathematics in Radio; Plug-In Coils Banned; Tuning in Television Programs; S.W. Reception with Broadcast Superhets; A Universal Receiver; Ten Meters for Ten Dollars; Selenium Awakes!; A "Rolls-Royce of Converters; The Crystal Detector Again; An All-Purpose Oscillator. Heavy external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover which is loose but present. A rough copy but worth preserving due to its wonderful vintage content. Magazine
1987Cover photo of a Phantom 1 Brewster Piccadilly. Features: Mulliner, Park Ward Today - contemporary coachbuilding, a happy blend of old and new; 1986 Vintage Tour - Motoring in the mountains of New England; National Vintage Car Tour 1986 - an ode to a tour; Six-Cylinder Technical Seminar, November 8-9, 1986; Whenever you fall in love with a lady - solving a mystery - LWVH81 (with wheel spats!); The Expert's Dilemma - truly "a cautionary tale" (regarding a valve problem); Unclogging the P-I Front Wheel Lubrication System; Threading our way through fittings; From the Shadow's Corner - the world of S.U. carburetters (part 1 of 2); Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1988Cover photo of a 1912 Silver Ghost Labourdette tourer; From the Shadow's Corner - Suspension and Shock Absorbers; Notes on the creation of a twenty horsepower petrol tank; Wraith Hub Tool; Testing the Phantom III Engine; Scottsdale Board Meeting, January 22-23, 1988; A James Young Silver Wraith; The Search for the Jade Ghost - Part I, The Acquisition; Before the Ghost - photos of two remaining Henry Royce cars from 1904-06; Copy of a Samuel Adelman invoice for a 'parts car' to Fred Kelly. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1988Cover illustration of a 1930 SpeedSix Gurney Nutting Coupe. Features: From the Shadow's cover - Front end allignment and associated hardware - with detailed drawings; Firewall Restoration - Silver Cloud III; Magneto Mumbo Jumbo - detailed sectional diagrams; The Priest with Grease on his Hands - Rev. Jude J. Gray, OSB and the members of the St. Anselm College Auto Restoration Club, Manchester, NH; ... A Rose by Any Other Name, by Keith Marvin; List of Articles about Rolls-Royce and Bentley Cars, compiled by C.S. Shoup. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1988Cover photo of a 4.25 litre Bentley Windovers drophead. Features: From the Shadow's Corner - Front Wheel Bearings - with 5 detailed drawings; From the Cooke Stove - Repair of the Silver Ghost Intake Manifold; The Care and Feeding of Interior Leather; 1988 Spring Tour South Carolina and Georgia Low Country; V-8 Technical Seminar, Richmond Virginia, April 8-9, 1988; Restoration of the Silver Cloud - Phantom V Trophy. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1988Cover photo of a 1988 Bentley Turbo R, United States version. Features: Tracing Fuel Problems in the Phantom II; From the Shadow's Corner - Rear Suspension and rear crossmember - 5 detailed drawings; Bentley Turbo R Introduced to U.S. (4 pages with photos); 1988 trip to England; Notes from a Flyleaf - handwritten notes from the handbook of a 20 HP owned by Mr. E.E. Cockcroft of Bankfield, Luddendenfoot - as transcribed by Lee Haacker; Shadow/T Series Seminar - 24,000 mile service, Mechanicsburg, PA, June 24-25, 1988; Nostalgia - excerpts from Letters to Sam Shoup 1936-1952; Prewar Car Colour Schemes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1991Cover photo of a Melhuish tourer. Features: Southern Highlands Vintage Tour, Georgia and North Carolina, September 9-14, 1990, with many great photos; Derby Bentley Seminar, September 28-29, 1990, Mechanicsburg, PA - 8-page article with many photos; Coachbuilder's Delivery Cards; Can a Phantom II Camshaft be Quiet?; Charles S. Rolls, Roads Scholar. Average wear. Some markings to classified section. A sound copy. Book
1991Cover photo of a Windovers limousine. Features: London to Peking by Silver Ghost - 1990 Motor Challenge in 1920 Car - 4 pages with photos; Phantom II Continental 98PY - Barker Allweather - 3 pages with photos; Andre Hartford - Where are you? We need you! - repairing a Hartford Telecontrol auxiliary shock damping system; Carburetter Air Valves - how to test them & How to Fix Them; Carburetter adjustment, by Eric Platford, Rolls-Royce Ltd., 17 September 1913 - 2 pages; The Odyssey of 3CM92 - Phantom III Barker Saloon - 3 pages with nice photos; Board Meeting, Houston, TX, January 25-26, 1991. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1991Cover photo of a Freestone & Webb saloon with division. Features: Circumnavigating the Chesapeake Bay - National Spring Tour - April 20-26, 1991 - 11 pages with many photos; Carrosserie Graber - Hermann Graber, Wichtrach, Switzerland - 4 pages with photos; Engine Technical Seminar at a living mechanical museum, May 9-11, 1991, North Brookfield, MA; Stiff Steering in a Derby Bentley; The Club at a Glance (graphically). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1991Cover photo of a Gurney Nutting sedanca coupe. Features: Those Black and Red Sedanca Coupes - great 10 page article with many photos; Early Post-War Tech Seminar, or how to use an Oil Can, June 7-8, 1991, Mechanicsburg, PA; Repairing the Rolls-Royce Radiator Shell - 4 pages with photos; From the Shadow's corner - a 1964 Silver Cloud III transmission, a 1971 Silver Shadow starter and temperature gauge; Motoring Laws - nothing new under the sun. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1991Cover photo of an H.J. Mulliner saloon. Features: National Meet - Monterey, California, August 20-25, 1991 - 17 pages with dozens of great photos; Monterey Board of Directors Meeting; List of articles about Rolls-Royce and Bentley Cars as compiled by C.S. Shoup; Rockey Mountain High, August 1991 - Five Ghosts Denver to Monterey, Six Ghosts Back - empirical testing of Carburation, Cooling and Crew at 14,000 ft. and 97 degrees F. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1992Cover photo of a RRCCW Pall Mall. Features: Je me Souviens - Recollections of the Quebec Vintage Tour, September 22-27, 1991 - six pages with many nice photos; From the Shadow's Corner - long term storage of a 1976 Silver Shadow, Fluid for convertible top and recharging accumulators, 1972 T Type Bentley with crankshaft oil leaks; 1965 Siver Cloud III with low oil pressure; Brooks-Ostruk Company - La Carrosserie - 3 pages with wonderful photos; Dipping systems on Lucas P100 Lamps; Nuts, Cheese & Worms - a confectionary of items needed to get your steering straight - 4 detailed pages with illustrations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1993Cover photo of a Freestone & Webb saloon. Features: Pre-War Coachwork National Technical Seminar, October 29-31, 1992, North Brookfield, MA - six pages with many illustrations; Conservation Treatment of Early Automobiles; A Brace of Continentals; A 2,500 mile European adventure in a 1989 Bentley Mulsanne L; Thomas W. Barrett, III; RROC Business and Financial Reports; Other Side of the Track - article by a new member. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1993Cover photo of a Special Edition Anniversary Corniche IV. Features: Pre-War Coachwork National Technical Seminar - Woodwork, Part II, October 29-31, 1992, North Brookfield, MA; Pre-War Coachwork National Technical Seminar, Paint and Upholstery, October 29-31, 1992, North Brookfield, MA - 4 pages with great photos; GRK27 - a 1924 Twenty HP; Rebuilding a Silver Ghost Water Pump; From the Judge's Bench, by Matt Sysak; A Lost Silver Cloud - the Tale of LLCB15. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1993Cover photo of RRCCW Oxford. Features: Touring with Tradition and Technology, Northern Florida National Spring Tour, April 18-24, 1993 - many pages with great photos; What's Wrong with My Car? - Mechanical & Electrical Diagnosis Pre-War through S3; List of Rolls-Royce and Bentley articles as compiled by C.S. Shoup. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1995Cover photo a Brewster Limousine. Features: Wonderful West Virginia Vintage Tour, September 18-23, 1994 - 9 pages with dozens of photos; Silver Shadow, Early Silver Spirit, Tour and Tech, October 17-22, 1994; Western Inter-Regional, Santa Barbara CA, August 11-14, 1994; A Four Door Corniche Convertible. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1996Features: Ken Morrell 1927-1996; Did He or Didn't He? - Royce and the Vibration Damper - great six-page article with great detailed illustrations; The Renewal of SRC20670 - a 1974 Silver Shadow Saloon; Lost Dynamo Charge on a Phantom II; More on tracing short circuits; Maybe you ought to have your head examined - the rebuilding of a decades-old engine using the original aluminum cylinder head is always fraught with some uncertainty; Encourage Young Members; Rolls-Royce Silver Spur - Springfield Edition 75th Anniversary. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1971264 pages. "Illustrates the coachbuilding craft as applied to Rolls-Royce from 1946 to 1971. "Nearly every different body design mounted on post war chassis is shown, including coachbuilders drawings and photographs of interiors. Extracts from order books are reproduced containing body design number, chassis number, and other data." - from dust jacket. Sumptously and abundantly illustrated in colour and black and white. Decorated endpapers. Printed on high quality glossy stock. Dust jacket price-clipped. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A very nice copy of this handsome work. Book
1941Features: Two-pages of Soviet cities now facing the gigantic Nazi battering-ram; Illustrations of two missing aces - Flight Lieut. J.C. Mungo-Park and Wing-Commander J.R. Kayll; Clearn photo of the Soviet emergency "Council of Defense", including Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov and Berya; Wonderful photo of three large drums built for Haile Selassie and his new Abyssinian state; How the Nazis took Crete - five enemy views of paratroop operations; Thirteen photos of personalities of the day, including good photo of the funeral cortege of German ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; Nine great photos of the besieged garrison of Tobruk; Article - Hitler's assault on Russia, by Cyril Falls; Air photos of French Aerodromes at Boulogne and St. Omer smashed by the R.A.F.; Super before and during photos of R.A.F. attack on the rail marshalling yard at Hazebrouck; Centerfold illustration of large-scale English mimic night attempt to land barge-borne troops and tanks (early D-Day training); Photos of Home Guard excercises - street fighting on London; Four photos of camouflaged snipers; Iraqi armistice - six photos, including one of Imir Abdul Illah, the Regent; After the Battle of Amba Alagi - The Italians Surrender - Two good photos; Photo of Nazi glider in Crete; Amazing photos of the "Imperial Transport", cut in half by a U-boat but still salvaged!; Article - the nutritive value of plankton; Syria's historic invasion route - inscriptions at the Dog River - seven photos; Nice half-page ad for Rolls-Royce cars. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
2003Features: Improving ferry design through passenger-flow simulation; Integrated automation for LNG tankers; ECOPAINT project fulfils new emissions rules; Wondermar - hoping to enhance Europe's competitiveness; Fatique in ship structures - new light on an eternal issue; Rolls-Royce/IZAR fast cargo ferry - competing with road transport; Cruise liner technology; Norway's marine industries; CAD/CAM update. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1926Pages 577-660. Lovely color cover art by FM(?) Features: Nice color ad for Wills Sainte Claire, Inc auto inside front cover; Nice illustrated ad for the New Marmon Motor Car Company of Indianapolis - two images with text; full-page black and white Packard automobile ad; Turkey's Coming of Age - photo-illustrated article on how far the new republic is keeping its oath to be civilized and progressive; An Empire Builder of Old Japan - illustrations of Japanese Triptychs collected by Darrell O. Hibbard; Chang and Feng and Wu - photo-illustrated article of the Chinese Political Puzzle into its elementary terms; The Doom-Fraught Sahars - photo-illustrated article on this land where the incessant increase of sand augurs the dying out of plant and animal life; Little Femail "Nanook" - a broken-hearted polar bear tethered outside an Eskimo igloo near Barrow (includes photo of Detroit Arctic Expedition aircraft commanded by G.H. Wilkins - plane on ground with dog team and Eskimos in foreground); Marriage A La Mongole - a wedding where a plate for gifts is passed to guests plied with millet whiskey - photo-illustrated article; J.V. Stalin - Heir of Lenin - an Asiatic, whose iron control of Russia befits his name, which means 'Steel"; Lhasa at Last - a Revelation of Hidden Mysteries and Curious Customs at the Tibetan Capital - photo-illustrated article; "Madam President" in the Chair in India - Sarojini Naidu guides the Indian National Congress; Full page Cadillac ad; Full page illustrated ad for the Chrysler "70"; Lovely full-page color ad for the RCA Radiola; Nice colour ad for Camel cigarettes with July 4th theme; *Fantastic* black and white photo ad for American Leather Producers Inc, featuring interior and exterior photos of a leather upholstered luxury auto with body by Locke and chassis by Rolls-Royce; Nice ad for Canadian Pacific and its Empress of Scotland world cruise; Colour ad for Davey Tree Surgeons; Dollar Steamship Line ad; ad for Bankers Trust travelers checks; Red Star Line ad re: Belgenland world cruise; Very classy colour ad for Lincoln automobiles inside back cover. Color-photo ad for Listerine on back cover promotes its use in the treatment of dandruff. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Partial opening of front cover along spine and chipping to backstrip. A worthy copy of this lovely vintage issue. Magazine
193928 pages. Features: Cover photo of hundreds of British troops marching over Westminster Bridge; First drawings of British forces at work in France; Two-page photo feature on the making of A.R.P. 'tin-hats' - mass production from steel blanks to painted and lined helmets; Photos of Stalin; Photos of Europe's busy diplomats; Two-pages of the Turkish sailors of tomorrow, including scenes at "Deniz Harp Okulu; Photo of the "Thetis" being raised to the surface; Photos of current events in England; Photos of the King with his troops; Photos of Royal occasions in wartime London; Royalty and the Red Cross - Sewing Party at the Queen's Palace; Centerfold illustration of British tanks advancing in France; The First Nazi Raid on Britain - the Firth of Forth Attack; Fruitless German "Glide-bombing attack on the Forth Bridge; Photos illustrate Germany's war, at home and at sea - makeshifts, losses and lies; Photos in the wake of German Air Attacks which ended Ingloriously; Great full-page photo of three cruisers of the "Southampton" class proceeding in line with guns at the ready; The War with Nazi Germany - The Echo in the Balkans - article by Cyril Falls; Four photos aboard the "Bremen" on her flight to German Sanctuary; Rolls-Royce half-page announcement that they have ceased to manufacture motor car chassis in order to perform Government work; and more. Bit of writing on front outer cover. Some pages loose. Missing pages 657-58 and 661-662. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
193752 pages. Features: Great full-page photo of the King, Queen and two Princesses in coronation dress; Larger Royal Family photo in Coronation Dress; The Surprise Royal Drive in North London - Great Popular Enthusiasm; Three incredible photos of the Hindenburg disaster in progress; Monte Carlo Casino - photo-illustrated article by General Pierre Polovtsoff; The Royal Visit to the City - Their Majesties Passing Temple Bar - full-page photo; Huge almost two-page photo of the King and Queen at Luncheon with the Lord Mayor in Guildhall; Mr. Baldwin's CAll to Youth in a Farewell Speech as Premier; Coronation Naval Review - photos of the "Revenge" and the "Hood"; Photos of numerous foreign warships at Spithead to pay respects - including the swastika flying over the Graf Spee; Incredible huge 4-panel centerfold measuring 38"x14" presents a cutaway drawing of the recently commissioned "Southampton" - a vessel of novel features including 6-in guns in tripple turrets, athwartship catapult and multiple A.A. guns; Large photos of Coronation Lights O' London - Panoramas taken from the summit of the Duke of York's Column; The King of Denmark's Silver Jubilee - photos; Nice full-page ad for the Austin Eighteen car; Wonderful half-page black and white photo ad for Rolls-Royce Automobiles; Unmarked with average wear. Centerfold and next page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
