I was brought up in the 1950s in a terraced house where the road ran parallel with the main shopping street, and every Monday and Thursday a gleaming blue Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith would park in the area, having delivered its two lady occupants to the department store. I was still at school so only saw this in the holidays, but it so impressed me that I chatted to the chauffeur and took some pictures with my box camera. Later I learned that the model was a 1954 Touring Limousine by Hooper and this impressive and immaculate vehicle started my interest and enthusiasm for Rolls-Royce cars.
Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars were few and
