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Charles Rolls was a car dealer. He met the engineer Henry Royce in Manchester in 1904. Their company was formed in 1906. Aircraft engines soon became a major activity. Since 2003 the car brand has belonged to BMW and has been based at Goodwood in England.
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Rolls-Royce
1906–1926 · Inline-6
Its name first belonged to a single car: the 12th 40/50 hp chassis, registered AX 201, finished in aluminium paint with silver-plated fittings and named for its ghostly quietness. In 1907 it ran the Scottish reliability trials, then a 15,000-mile test with 27 runs between London and Glasgow. The press adopted the name for every 40/50, which Rolls-Royce only made official in 1925.
Photo: Alexander Migl (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Rolls-Royce
1929–1936
Over 70% of the 3,827 built were still on the road in 2009. The 20/25 became the best-selling Rolls-Royce between the wars, and its success helped the company ride out the Great Depression. Developed under the code name Goshawk, it gained power over the earlier Twenty through a wider engine bore. Rolls-Royce built only the chassis and mechanicals; coachbuilders such as Park Ward, Hooper and Mulliner made the bodies.
Photo: Lordruss1969 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Rolls-Royce
1971–1995 · V8
A corniche is a coastal road, and the name first went on a 1939 prototype, bodied in Paris by Vanvooren to a design by the French designer Georges Paulin. Mulliner Park Ward built the new Corniche in London, a two-door derivative of the Silver Shadow with a wood-rimmed three-spoke steering wheel and the first standard tachometer on a Rolls-Royce.
Photo: David Monniaux (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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