Rolls-Royce Armoured Car: 1915-44 (all models) (Owners' Workshop Manual) Hardcover – March 1, 2017

Osprey Publisher are great at providing a quick and informed look at a military subject. This is how I usually start deeper research on a subject. Great for Modellers.

Book arrived on time and in perfect condition.

The Rolls Royce {RR} Silver Ghost was built from 1907 - 1925. This is the model {more than any other} produced by company that deserves "The Best Car in the World" moniker that was the company's [unoffical} slogan for most of the 20th century. The 1st World War created the unlikely circumstance where a high quality/cost luxury car chassis was translated into a supremely reliable, quiet, adaptable and durable armored fighting vehicle that this excellent Vanguard volume details in a concise, lucid and highly readable manner. Luxury car chassis such as the Silver Ghost were sold without a body - so each Armored shell for a RR chassis was a semi-customized and individual effort. This vehicle was very expensive to build but it's quality and long service record show that Britain got it's "money's worth" for them ! This book gives a complete history of the RR armored car design,specifications, various model development, upgrading/moderization and the numerous military/colonial campaigns that it participated in between 1915 and 1941. BUT some of them would remain in service right thru the end of World War 11 - a remarkable run !! France, Gallipoli, Iraq, Africa, Egypt, Libya, Ireland, India - the Rolls Royce Armoured Car was a design that was adaptable for use thru- out the Brtish Empire and it's protectorate and client states. The used copy that I recently received thru the Amazon Web Site was in excellent condition. This 46 page volume packs a lot of information and is an excellent value and I give it between a 4 and 4 1/2 star rating.

Very nice overview of this iconic armored car - hardcover, full color throughout, high quality printing. Many color photos of preserved examples. A truly definitive book on this type is waiting to be written, but this is about as good as it gets for the time being.

There haven't been too many books on the Rolls-Royce armored car; this book redresses that imbalance. The quality of the paper and printing is excellent as are the many photos of the armored car in service. There are color pictures of two restored cars. The only negative I can find is that the book is geared more for the automotive crowd. It is not quite the walk-around needed by modelers where every aspect is photographed in detail . Still, that is a minor quibble for an overall excellent book.

Although I'm not totally obsessed with armored fighting vehicles (although my interest level IS growing), I've really enjoyed Haynes' tank manuals so far. I recently re-read their Tiger tank manual, and was impressed by how detailed and well-rounded it was. Having gotten hooked on the author's "tank chats" on The Tank Museum's YouTube page, I was looking forward to another David Fletcher/Haynes/Tank Museum collaboration. The result is kind of a missed opportunity.The big problem with this book is that it's terribly unbalanced. For a "workshop manual," it's rather short on the hardcore technical details I've come to expect from this series. Sans introduction and index, this book is 147 pages long. Of that, a whopping 83 pages are devoted to a lengthy potted history of the vehicle, which is essentially a blow-by-blow account of the many operations they participated in. The first few chapters are interesting enough for military history buffs, but have been recounted endlessly elsewhere.The second half fares better, but is obviously a bit pressed for space. There are some excellent technical diagrams and descriptions, some interesting photographic walkthroughs of vehicle maintenance (checking the engine oil, starting the engine, etc.), and a chapter on restoring "Sliabh na mBan," which was escorting Michael Collins when he was ambushed and killed. Unfortunately, the technical descriptions are rather skimpy when compared with those in Haynes' other tank manuals.For all the talent involved, this book is kind of disappointing. Like other Haynes titles, it has plenty of excellent photographs of restored vehicles, and plenty of "in action" shots, which should come in handy for modelers. As a hardware geek, it's merely decent. Haynes has published some solid books this year, but they're yet to hit it out of the park.

An excellent addition to the series.

Given the author and the publisher, its only natural to be left on the last page feeling a little disappointed the book wasn't a few hundred pages longer.Good newsThe content is usual decent gloss one gets with books of this type, and Mr Fletcher has the knowledge along with the resources to pack the tight word/illustration limits full of first rate stuff. It is a good book within the limits of the format, and since there's not a lot else out there on the subject anyway, if you want a book on RR A/C's look no further.Bad newsThe Kindle edition is a bit hard on the photos which are such an important part of these books, and the formatting was a bit off base from multi-page images like the cutaways.