George Robery Neville Minchin MA was well-known in the motor industry as a supplier of batteries to Rolls-Royce from his two companies, Peto and Radford and Chloride Electrical Co. He was also a keen motorist, who between 1910 and 1950 owned 13 motorcycles and 154 cars.
His first acquaintance with a motor vehicle was when a student, Frank McClean, showed him the motor tricycle he owned. Minchin's...
"The Silver Lady," by Neville Minchin. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. 180o pp. 8 7/8 in. x 5 in. (G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., 1-5, Portpool Lane, Holborn, London, E.C.1. 2.5s.)
Neville Minchin, now resident in Cape Town, has a vast knowledge of Rolls-Royce matters and in "The Silver Lady," dedicated to his old friend The Rt. Hon. Lord Hives, C.H., M.B.E., D.Sc., LL.D., he...
Rolls-Royce thrillers reissued
LONG OUT OF PRINT (AND THE SECOND
title never published), the works of fiction N7 and Murder in the Monte Carlo Rallyby the late Neville Minchin are now available.
Minchin (1888-1977) is well remembered as a prolific Rolls-Royce owner, as well as of many other cars, including racing Darracqs, etc. Author of several books about the
Rolls-Royces, his entertaining...
Veteran Edwardian Vintage
A SECTION DEVOTED TO OLD-CAR MATTERS PHIL PADDON
IN ME lit iiaries that we have been
serialising the, „ire several refereziees to meeting Phil Paddon, who was then a well-known figure in nattering cireks closely associated with the firm of Padden Brothers. the Rolls-Royce specialists, who still operate from the original premises in Knightsbridge's Cheval Place. A feW...
Sir,
The correspondence and photographs which you published last summer about the London-Edinburgh Rolls-Royce and the "Brooklands" car bred speculation enough to suggest that a further fragment on the same subject may be of interest.
Not long ago I was fortunate enough to spend an evening in Cape Town with G. R. N. Minchin, who will be known to Rolls-Royce enthusiasts as the author of "Under My...