Rolls-Royce is the product of a phenomenal partnership between two innovative men. Charles Rolls and Henry Royce had nothing in common except for a passion for the perfect automobile.
Rolls was a wealthy car dealer in Britain. Royce on the other hand, was a self-made man; he started out as a paper boy and later began an electrical engineering business. He turned to making cars after becoming a successful engineer.
Henry Edmunds, a mutual friend of Rolls and Royce made the two meet. Edmunds boasted to Rolls about his new 10hp Royce motor car. Rolls badly wanted to meet the man who made the car. He met Royce and after taking a test drive, he instantly agreed to sell as many cars as Royce could build. Rolls made the agreement without any second thoughts on May 4, 1904, as he knew he had found the right motor car with superior performance. Thus, the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars took birth.
The first Rolls-Royces appeared by the end of 1904. Royce designed and built the cars and Rolls brought them to the public. Rolls-Royce is still the world’s best-known symbol of supreme motoring excellence.
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