Rolls Royce
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a British
luxury car company, founded by Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls in 1904,
but since 1998 belongs to the BMW Group. It also owns Rolls-Royce Holdings, of
great economic importance, it is a British engineering company specializing in
turbines, particularly aircraft engines, although it has recently added marine
thrusters and power systems to its catalog, providing a wide range of services
and industrial, civil and military products.
Rolls-Royce has nicknames such as
"Rolls", "Roller" or "Double R", although in
Derby (where their parent company is located) the company is known as
"Royces". The term "The Rolls-Royce of x" is used
colloquially to describe something that is the best of its kind; The company is
very strict when it comes to defending the right of its name, in phrases like
this. A notable example is the demand that forced the cancellation of the
production of the famous Chevrolet Monte Carlo, because in its advertising
slogan it named the brand.
Our company offers the Rolls
Royce compliance certificate for this vehicle through our website.
In 1884 Frederick Henry Royce
started an automobile mechanical and electrical business and built his first
vehicle, a "Royce", at his Manchester factory in 1904. He met Charles
Stewart Rolls at the Midland Hotel in Manchester on May 4, That same year, they
agreed that the cars manufactured by Royce would be exclusively commercialized
by Rolls-Royce. They included in their contract a clause stipulating that the
cars would be called "Rolls-Royce".
The company was founded on
March 15, 1906 and moved to Derby in 1908. The Silver Ghost (1906-1925) was
responsible for the company's early reputation. It had a six-cylinder engine
and 6,173 units were manufactured. In 1921, the company opened a factory in
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, to be able to supply the vehicles
given their high demand, where 1701 "Springfield Ghosts" were
manufactured. This factory remained open for ten years, closing in 1931. This
chassis served as the basis for the first British armed military vehicles, used
in both world wars. In 1931, the company acquired the Bentley brand, whose
finances could not overcome the Great Depression. From then until 2002, the
Bentley and Rolls-Royce models were almost identical, differentiated only by radiator
grills and minimal details.
The production of Rolls-Royce and
Bentley automobiles was transferred to Crewe in 1946 and also to Mulliner Park
Ward, in London, in 1959 as a manufacturer of bodies, which previously only
built chassis, leaving the bodies to bodybuilders specialists.
The Rolls Royce compliance
certificate is available for all Rolls Royce manufactured by the European
market.
Due to financial problems caused
by the long development of the new RB211 turbojet engine for the Lockheed
L-1011 Tristar, in 1971 Rolls-Royce had declared insolvent, and on February 4,
1971 it was brought to bankruptcy, as it was considered that The economic
situation of bankruptcy had reached. Due to its strategic importance, the
company was nationalized by the Conservative government of Edward Heath. In
1973, the automobile business separated from the brand as Rolls-Royce Motors.
The main business of aviation and marine engines was maintained as a public
company until 1987, which was privatized as Rolls-Royce plc, one of the many
government privatizations of Margaret Thatcher. In 1980 Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
was acquired by Vickers. Vickers decides to get rid of the brand just at the
moment when nostalgia is incorporated into the trends and the demand for models
and brands inspired by the past is growing strongly.
In 1998 Vickers decided to sell
the Rolls-Royce car brand. The Volkswagen group made offers for the company,
but it seemed that BMW, which already supplied engines and other components for
Rolls-Royce and Bentley, had greater possibilities. However, BMW's offer of 340
million pounds was surpassed by Volkswagen for 430 million pounds. This was far
from the end of the story. Rolls-Royce plc, the aviation engine factory,
decided it would sell the patents and licenses of the Rolls-Royce name and logo
to BMW, not to Volkswagen, which had acquired the rights to the mascot
"Spirit of Ecstasy" and the design of the radiator. BMW acquired the
rights to the name and logo "RR" for 40 million pounds, certainly for
many analysts the most valuable property of the brand; Volkswagen stated that
they really only wanted the Bentley brand.
BMW and Volkswagen reached an
agreement. From 1998 to 2002, BMW would supply engines to Volkswagen and allow
the use of the name, but from January 1, 2003, only BMW could use the
Rolls-Royce brand, and Volkswagen the Bentley brand. The Rolls-Royce Corniche
Convertible ceased production in 2002.
What do I need to get my COC
Rolls Royce? Information available on our website.
In the province of Vizcaya,
Spain, there is the Museum of ancient and classic cars. A private collection of
43 Rolls Royce, as well as other brands that have made history in the
automotive world. This collection is considered unique in the world for having
almost all the Rolls-Royce models until the acquisition of the brand by BMW in
1998.