Rolls-Royce & Bentley Driver

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Charles Prince is currently offering two extremes of the pre-war Rolls-Royce and Bentley market. The first is the extraordinary 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom Brougham de Ville created (not just built!) by Charles Clark & Son Ltd of Wolverhampton for Clarence Gasque, an American directorormolu, enamel and a painted ceiling. Charles thinks there must be more to the tale than that, though.

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