Know more about the luxury car you want to rent – Rolls Royce

This is 4^th part of the series “Know more about the luxury car you want to rent”. In this post you can learn about another luxurious car maker known as Rolls Royce. The three models that are most popular are:

•        Rolls Royce Phantom
•      Rolls Royce Ghost
•      Rolls Royce Wraith  
•     Rolls Royce Dawn

 History of Rolls Royce: 

It was May of 1904, when Henry Royce and Charles Royce struck a nice deal over lunch. Rest was history.  Prior to this deal Henry Royce has an established Electrical & Mechanical Business and Charles Rolls was the owner of first car dealership selling quality cars in London.  The agreement was made that Royce Limited will manufacture the cars and CS Rolls & Co will sell these cars. Cars were to be sold by the name Rolls-Royce. 

Three years later the Silver Ghost car was launched and it sooner became the best car in the world that time.  Company soon enjoyed great success in car market, however during the world war 1, in the response to nation’s requirements Rolls Royce produced an aero engine by the name of Eagle.  

Later in 1930s company developed the famous R engine that was known for its speed and performance.  In 1953 Rolls Royce entered civil aviation market. It was in 1971 that the financial collapse of the company caused the nationalisation of Rolls Royce Limited and in 1973 the British government started the Rolls Royce Motors as separate entity to allow Rolls Royce Limited to focus mainly on jet engine manufacturing business. In the year 1980 company was acquired by Vickers plc. 

After running the business for nearly two decades, Vickers decided to sell Rolls Royce Motors and Volkswagen Group acquired the Crewe factory along with the rights to the "Spirit of Ecstasy" mascot and the shape of the radiator grille.  They beat the favourites for the deal BMW, however BMW get the rights of Rolls Royce Brand and the RR logo since both these were the rights of the Rolls Royce Aviation branch and not the Rolls Royce Motors.  Till 2002 both BMW and Volkswagen agreed that BMW will supply engines to Volkwagen cars and they will use Rolls Royce name. Later from Jan 2003, BMW would name the cars as Rolls Royce and Volkswagen Group's former Rolls-Royce/Bentley division would build Bentley cars only.

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