The logo of the double R shows that this is an ultra-luxury brand, but also represents the friendship of two people, and the success of Rolls-Royce comes from the efforts of two people, one named Charlie Rolls and the other named Henry Rice. The car they built was named "Rolls-Royce".
Henry Rice was born into a poor family, Charlie Rouse was born into an aristocratic family, and two people with different family conditions, different lifestyles, and different educational backgrounds created a car legend.
Born in 1863, Henry Rice's parents ran a small flour workshop, but the business soon failed. After that, the family was displaced, and when he was nine years old, it was not a lonely thing. When his father died of illness, Les sold newspapers and did odd jobs to support the family. When he grew up, Les joined the railway company as an apprentice, worked hard in the company, and soon became an engineer. In this era of stars, Rice is also destined to be extraordinary.
He found himself gifted in mechanics, and in 1884 he founded the Rice Company, which had just begun to produce some electrical equipment, as the business stabilized. He also considered his company going to invest in the most advanced manufacturing industry at that time, and the trend of the era was to build cars. In 1901 his company officially produced cars, and in 1904 he sold a car to Edmund, a good friend of Charlie Rouse, and it was this car that became the connecting object between Rice and Rolls, and an ultra-luxury brand would be born.
Born in 1877, the aristocratic Charlie Rouse was personable, a few years younger than Les, but his experience was not simple. Born in a jazz family, studied at Cambridge University is the standard rich second generation. It is precisely because of these favorable conditions that he came into contact with automobile racing at a very young age and became a communicator of automobile racing. Born into a famous family, he talked a lot and made many friends, which also laid a solid network foundation for the development of Rolls-Royce.
As a car enthusiast, Charlie Rouse also wanted to make a difference in the automotive industry, he first set up the "Rouse Company" to sell cars, after the company grew and grew. He wants to realize his own dream of building a car, and he's always looking for a suitable opportunity. Until he saw the Les car bought by his friend Edmond, he felt that his eyes lit up at once, and the car reached the first-class level in the industry at that time from the shape to the performance, he immediately visited Les, and a pair of geniuses held hands.
They then teamed up to develop a mass-produced Rice car, which quickly became popular as soon as it was launched, and Rolls was the exclusive agent for the sale of this car, and then the two companies merged and changed their name to "Rolls-Royce". Rolls is responsible for sales and finance, and Rice is responsible for technology and R&D.
With Rice's personal efforts, with Rolls's communication and marketing skills, their company soon got on the right track, Rolls as the second generation of rich people have money and leisure of course is also challenging, he began to play the hottest big toy airplane at that time, he once flew over the English Channel many times, 32 years old in 1910, because of the death of an air crash, a generation of heroes fell.
Les, who grew up in the altar of suffering, has always been a desperate sanlang at work, but God did not take care of him, and his physical condition continued to deteriorate after years of illness, and the death of Rouse had a great impact on him. In 1933, Rice died at home at the age of 70.
The Rolls-Royce brand is adhering to the spirit of the founder to only build the world's most luxurious cars, constantly improving and improving, and achieving today's glory.