Interesting Facts About ROLLS-ROYCE
The Royal Naval Air Service had raised the first British armoured car squadron during the First World War. In1914 all available Rolls Royce Silver Ghost chassis, including their engines whose power had increased to about 80 hp and were requisitioned to form the basis for this new armoured car.
2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom
Rolls Royce Cars was introduced first time on 4th May, 1904 by Frederick Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls. In December 1904, the company had incorporated in an International market exhibiting two, three and four cylinder cars. In 1907, Rolls Royce had emerged with its new baby unit named Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.
Original 1905 Rolls-Royce 10 hp
The vehicle was modernized in 1920 and in 1924 which resulted in Rolls-Royce 1920 Pattern and Rolls-Royce 1924 Pattern. In 1940, 34 vehicles served in Egypt with the 11th Hussars regiment had the “old” turret had replaced with an open-topped one carrying.303 inch Bren machine gun, a Boys anti-tank rifle and smoke grenade launchers.
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More than seventy years ago, Rolls Royce Motors had introduced its first Aero-engine to India. In the year 1956, the company had a tie-up with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Bangalore, as a license production partnership, is from 1956. Rolls-Royce Limited had been nationalized in the year 1971. Rolls-Royces have been used in popular culture as a stereotype of wealthy people, particularly millionaires.
New York, Paris and London chauffeur services use them and the rich and famous love them. The Rolls-Royce brand is synonymous with prestige and luxury and when you think of one of their cars you cannot help but associate quality.
For such a well established brand there are still many facts that most people are un-aware of.
1. Did you know Rolls-Royce should always be written with a hyphen in the middle to reflect both the founders’ surnames?
2. Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the company over a hundred years ago in 1906. Incidentally a photo of the Charles Rolls and Henry Royce was never taken of them together.
4. One of the first Rolls-Royce cars to be developed was the Rolls-Royce 10 which stood for 10 horse power. This was sold for £395.00 back in 1904 and is equivalent to £32,000, only 16 were made.
5. The mission and objective of the car manufacturer set out by the founders as a company was to provide a tangible transport alternative to horses and trains. When the company was first created the horse and carriage was still the main mode of transport
6. Arguably the most famous Rolls-Royce car model is the Silver Ghost, 6,000 were originally made and the Ghost part of the name signified the quietness of the engine. The success of the Silver Ghost led Rolls-Royce to open a second factory in Springfield, Massachusetts but closed down after 10 years because people in the USA preferred the British made cars.
Royce Silver Ghost at Centenary.
Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Silver Ghost 7,400cc side valve six cylinder engine.
7. The Rolls-Royce R engine is the only engine to obtain land, air and water speed records.
8. The famous Rolls-Royce emblem was designed by Charles Sykes and is called the “Spirit of Ecstasy” and no two figurines look the same. Incidentally Henry Royce disliked the figurine stating it ruined the cars lines.
9. The famous car manufacturer actually stopped manufacturing cars in 1971 after the company was crippled by the development of the RB211 jet engine. The company restarted manufacturing of their cars when they were taken over by various other firms such as Vickers, BMW and Volkswagen.
10. Nowadays this famous car manufacturer which is now owned by BMW is as strong as ever and makes cars which are shipped all over the world. In 2009 they sold 1,212 Phantoms to the rich and famous including P Diddy, David Beckham and Simon Cowell to name just a few. A large amount of sales can be attributed to wedding and chauffeur companies all over the world buying their luxurious vehicles to hire out. You can find them in lots of major cities all over the world and many London chauffeur services provide Rolls-Royce phantoms for hire for up to £1200 per day.
11. The Rolls Royce limited in 1971 was on verge of Bankruptcy due to high development cost of the RB 211 engine which it was designing for Lockheed Tristar which was poorly received by Airlines.A total of 250 Tristar were made in some 20 years with most of them today either retired or do duty as Freight haulers.
12.So in 1973 the Government broke Rolls Royce into Aerospace division which was nationalized and called Rolls Royce plc and in 1987 privatized and car division called Rolls Royce motors .The rights to Rolls Royce name , logo are with Aerospace Division which licensed the name and logo to BMW.
13. The spirit of Ecstasy mascot and shape of radiator grille is owned by VW not by BMW.
14.Bentley was acquired by Rolls Royce and both models were identical except for grille and some minor differences for nearly 70 years before they were sold separately.
15. Rolls Royce never quoted BHP/torque figures for their car and when asked they would say it is enough to propel the car.
16. There is no tachometer in Rolls Royce instead there is Power reserve gauge which functions in a similar way.
17.The first unibody Roll Royce was Silver shadow and its Bentley counterpart were in production for more than 30 years.
