This, to me, will always be the classic Rolls Royce; the Silver Ghost:
In the 1960s my brother had a Dinky model of this car and just loved the wonderful lines and attractive colour. In real life they are even more brilliant.
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Just think of the work involved in those mudgards 8-) (I'm assuming that a press wasn't used)
Yes eveyone built by craftsmen, and therefore, like all machines in the pre-computer age, each car was unique and individual.
This applied to craftsman built aircraft, ships, and I well know steam railway engines, often lined up say in the Great Western Railway 'A' shop in Swindon, with string and human visual skills acquired over years of experience. Every machine would have its own character. 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-).
Mind you after watching the documentary on Rolls Royce Trent jet engines being built I now realise that even in this high tech, computer driven age, machines can still be unique.
I loved the fact that each turbine blade, although precision made to very fine tolerances, had to be individually balanced and sighted in its own unique slot on the turbine 'ring'.
