Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring.

For more than sixty years motorists have described the Rolls Royce as the best car in the world. Is this still true today? How advanced is the new Silver Shadow by comparison with its costly competitors in America and on the Continent? What is it about the car which brings in a queue of orders from the world's wealthiest buyers?
Wheelbase reports from the Rolls Royce assembly line at Crewe in Cheshire.

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