Rolls Royce

Rolls Royce

Rolls-Royce is known worldwide by its deluxe cars of British origin, cars that are not within reach of anyone. The company dates of 1906 and enter its older vehicles we find model as the 1904-1906 10 hp, 1905-1905 15 hp, 1905-1908 20 hp, 1905-1906 30 hp, 1905-1906 Legalimit, 1906-1925 40/50 Silver Ghost, 1922-1929 20 hp, 1925-1929 40/50 Phantom, and more recently model as the 1968-1991 Phantom VI, 1971-1996 Corniche, 1975-1986 Camargue, 1980-1998 Silver Spirit.

Rolls-Royce is a group of companies, all derivative of the British company of automobiles and aeronautics been founded by Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls in 1906. The companies are:

* Rolls-Royce plc, from a distance the most important economically, is a company of British engineering specialized in turbine products, particularly aviation motors, but recently he/she has added marine propellers and energy systems to their catalog, providing a wide range of services and civil and military industrial products.

* Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited, a new maker of deluxe automobiles, property of BMW that began their only model's deliveries, the Phantom, in January of 2003.

* Bentley Motors is the continuation of the original division of automobiles of Rolls-Royce. From 1998 the company has been property of the Group Volkswagen. The cars Bentley and Rolls-Royce have shared many mechanical similarities from the absorption of 1931 of Bentley for Rolls-Royce, often only differing in small particulars as the grill of the radiator. From 2003 to the company has not allowed to build called cars Rolls-Royce again, the mark has been graduate to BMW, instead of to Volkswagen.

Rolls-Royce has nicknames like, "Rolls", "Roller" or "Double R", although in Derby (town where the controlling company of Rolls-Royce is located), the company is known as "Royces." The term "The Rolls-Royce of the x" is used colloquially to describe something that is the best in its type. The company is very strict when it is to defend the right of its name, in sentences like this. A remarkable example is the demand that he/she forced to cancel the production of the famous Chevrolet Carlo it Mounts, because in its advertising slogan it named the mark Rolls-Royce.

History

In 1884 Frederick Henry Royce began with a mechanics business and electricity of the automobile and it built its first vehicle, a "Royce", in its factory of Manchester in 1904. He/she knew Charles Stewart Rolls in the Hotel Midland in Manchester May of that same year 4, and they agreed that the cars manufactured by Royce, the comercilizaría exclusively Rolls. They included in their contract a claúsula specifying that the cars would call themselves "Rolls-Royce." The company was founded March of 1906, 15 and he/she moved to Derby in 1908.

The Silver Ghost (1906-1925) it was the responsible for the good reputation so early of the company. He/she had a motor of six cylinders and 6173 units were manufactured. In 1921, the company opened its second it manufactures in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the United States to be able to give the given vehicles its great demand, where they were manufactured 1701 "Springfield Ghosts." This manufactures it remained open during ten years, closing in 1931. This chassis was used as base for the first British armed military vehicles, used in both world wars.

In 1931, the company acquired its mark rival Bentley whose finances could not overcome the Great Depression. From then on until the year 2002, the cars Bentley and Rolls-Royce were almost identical, only differed by the grills of the radiators and minima particulars.
Original Rolls-Royce 1905.
Original Rolls-Royce 1905.

The production of automobiles Rolls-Royce and Bentley moved to Crewe in 1946 and also Mulliner Park Ward, in London, in 1959 as maker of chassis that previously alone it built chassis, leaving the chassis to specialist carroceros.

Due to financial problems caused by the long development of the new turboreactor RB211, after several credits, the company was nationalized by the government in 1971. In 1973, the business of automobiles separated the mark like Rolls-Royce Motors. The main business of aviation motors and it marinates it was maintained as public corporation up to 1987 that it was privatized as Rolls-Royce plc, one of the government's many privatizations Thatcher.

In 1980 Rolls-Royce Motor Cars was acquired by Vickers. In 1998 Vickers he/she sold the company to Volkswagen