Automotive history: Rolls Royce 6 Articles

by Kevin Guthrie

The name Rolls-Royce has become a synonym for luxury, but the roots of the company lie in a meeting between two individuals whose backgrounds were in stark contrast to each other. A working class self-educated engineer and...read more

by C. A. Pruit

When you think of a high class luxury automobile, what comes to mind? Certainly there are only a handfull of choices, but ultimately most people would choose the Rolls-Royce as the pre-eminent luxury vehicle. The Rolls-Roy...read more

by John Campbell

The Rolls Royce could well be the best car ever in the history of the car industry, a machine that is in the eyes of many, the pinnacle in performance, class and luxury. It is no accident that the name of Rolls Royce is of...read more

by Eve Redstone

When people think of luxury cars they often think of the Rolls Royce. In many ways the cars have been superseded but the name still evokes feelings of luxury, expense and a sense that an owner must be successful. Freder...read more

by Amber Benge

Rolls-Royce was formed on March 15, 1906 when Frederick Henry Royce joined forces with Charles Stewart Rolls. Royce owned an electrical and mechanical business, where he crafted his first car in 1904. In May of that year...read more

by Kate Eglan-Garton

Rolls and Royce probably wouldn't have ever gotten together if they had met as youths in the late 1800s because their backgrounds were very, very different. Frederick Henry Royce was the son of an impoverished miller an...read more