Ned,
where would we be in the evening without NCIS or The Mentalist.
If you used your brain, you would be in the shop.
Simon Cowell
One of the main reasons for having an OFF button. Public garbage.
I don't usually watch any television until very late evening, and then usually documentaries I have downloaded during the day.
But getting back to the R-R bit.
In the early days, there were few fixed models produced. R-R would make the driving chassis, and you would have your own favourite coachbuilder put a body to your liking onto it.
The 1980's Spirit had an initial production run of around 10 cars per day, and that was on a 'production line', the ones I worked on, somewhere between 3/4 and 1.5 cars per week. That ' hand built' line was with a team of about a dozen permanent workers, with ancilliary trades being called in when required.
In my days at the Crewe factory, we were attempting to do specials, like bullet proofing, custom driving positions etc in house, and making a terrible job of it. Most of the 'old guys' had left by that time, and the new whiz kid designers thought that if it could be drawn, then it could be made. How wrong they were. Rolls-Royce, by that time, had ceased being a 'hand made' car, with very few exceptions, and fast line production methods were attempting to be put in position.
While I was there, the chap that stored and looked after all the wood veneers down an old air raid shelter, to keep their moisture content and original colours, plus he also cut and matched them up for the whole interior, left to retire. There were many years of knowledge lost on that day, and the insides of the cars never quite looked right for many years after. He had done the job, mostly by himself, for nearly 50 years.
Bogs
