Rolls-Royce is an international company best known for its luxurious cars, but also providing power systems, aero engines and marine propulsion equipment.
Rolls-Royce grew from the electrical and mechanical business established by Henry Royce in 1884. Royce built his first motor car in 1904 and in May of that year met Charles Rolls, whose company sold quality cars in London. Agreement was reached that Royce Limited would manufacture a range of cars to be exclusively sold by CS Rolls & Co they were to bear the name Rolls-Royce. In 1906 following success with the cars the Rolls-Royce company was formed to the launch of the six-cylinder Silver Ghost car which, within a year, was hailed as 'the best car in the world'. At the start of the Great War, in response to the nation's needs, Royce designed his first aero engine the Eagle, which provided half of the total horsepower used in the air war by the allies. In 1953 Rolls-Royce entered the civil aviation market with the Dart in the Vickers Viscount which was to become the cornerstone of the universal acceptance of the gas turbine by the airline industry. Research Rolls-Royce More information about Rolls-Royce
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