PM Magazine visits the Rolls Royce Factory in Crewe England.

Our Washington DC PM Magazine travel crew did a week of shows in the spring of 1980. We were based in London for about 10 days. One of the stories we did was at the Rolls Royce factory in a city called Crewe, which is pretty close to Liverpool. We, of course, took the train from London and quickly went to work once in Crewe. For the ending of the piece, Henry Tenenbaum gets to actually drive one of the cars. What were the Rolls Royce people thinking!?!?
I was the cameraman, Wayne Myers did sound, Murray Schweitzer was producer and of course Henry on air.

[@cobar5342]

A very quaint little video. I have owned my Rolls-Royce for 24 years now and I still lover her. Fortunately I also have an early one as well and it is the one that exemplifies the Royce perfectionist attitude. If an other differential was held together by 12 bolts, Royce would use 20!

[@alancrisp1582]

😂😊 This was just wonderful viewing, hard to believe this was made over 40 years ago !...

[@mariumrajah]

I drove a RR Phantom a few times kept it over a weekend Excellent 👌 Build quality 👌 The drive of it 👌 What a machine them RR

[@flextakeoff]

spring of 1980? they were just about to introduce the Silver Spirit and Silver Spur (some being assembled) - all the completed cars were the last batch of Silver Shadow 2s and Silver Wraith 2s - actually a super ideal time at the assembly line, that would have made a good story. After a 15 year run, the next new model was on the cusp of being introduced.

[@chuckufarley5884]

Great video. Crewe "noted for only one thing"? I think the British Rail facility would have argued that one.

[@georgeydlfc]

My dad got a job at rolls Royce (now Bentley) on his 16th birthday and retired a couple of weeks ago, he worked there for 43 years

[@itseccco8684]

my grandad work there for a while until it shut down

[@gro9465]

Delightful.

[@gm-classics]

Now i know why a couple of Rolls that have come to my shop have had a guy locked in the trunk

[@kingkreole9121]

7:28 "Meticulous to the degree where if they have a particular creak which is very difficult to locate they would place a man in the boot are and travel on the road in the trunk of the car driving the car on the road so that the man himself could pinpoint the noise in the boot area".

[@gm-classics]

We have to do that today to fix these cars if they survived to be a classic, because they never got it right to begin with.

[@robertwelburn]

“Camilla Carr is going to show us London on the cheap” - I’d really like to see that! Any chance of seeing the remainder of the programme?

[@gm-classics]

Nice vid. Looks like they spent too much time on the radiator and dashboard, and totally missed all long-term integrity and reliability. I am a mechanic on these cars and have been for years. The absolute worst first generation Kia has more integrity vs the best car of this era from Crewe.

[@JSDesignHK]

It’s not particularly reassuring to know that over forty years ago, Americans were already dumbing things down for their audience.

[@skdinterceptor2828]

No more British.......nothing is now. Zee Germans have taken over🤣