Rolls Royce

Rolls-Royce facts

The first 10 hp Rolls-Royce was sold for £395...Today it is worth over £250,000

More than six out of ten of all Rolls-Royce Motor cars built are still roadworthy

At the Rolls-Royce factories in Crewe and London the cars are always referred to as Royces.
They are never called Rollers

The Rolls-Royce radiator grille is made entirely by hand and eye - no measuring instruments are used
It takes one man one day to make a Rolls-Royce radiator, and then five hours are spent polishing it

The Rolls -Royce radiator was not registered as a trademark until 1974

It takes over 800 man-hours to make the body of a Phantom VI

During the First World War Rolls-Royce made rifles

You will never open an ashtray in a modern Rolls-Royce and find a cigarette end.
It empties automatically

A Rolls-Royce does not break down. It 'fails to proceed.'

Notices have been hung around the factory bearing the legend: 'Beware silent cars.'

Even today every Rolls-Royce engine is completely hand built

The cooling capacity of the air-conditioning system in the Silver Spirit is equivalent to that of
30 domestic refrigerators

No one is certain who designed the Rolls-Royce radiator grille or the interlinked RR badge

The hydraulic tappets on Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars are given a natural finish
of a 16-millionth of an inch

The oldest known Rolls-Royce still on the road is the 1904 10hp owned by Mr Thomas Love Jr of
Scotland

Rolls-Royce did not make a complete car until after the Second World War. Before that they made only
chassis,...

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