Rolls Royce 1931 - Vanity Fair - The Inheritance of Rolls-Royce

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• Pages: 12

• Rolls Royce 1931 - Vanity Fair - The Inheritance of Rolls-Royce -
• Reprinted from Vanity Fair June 1926
• Rolls-Royce Ltd
• The Inheritance of Rolls-Royce:
• Swaying back and forth ...
• But the Youth cleaning the arc lamps disagreed...
• Strange thoughts for a stripling, changing hissing carbons...
• Pascal once said "Our achievements today are but a sum of our yesterdays"....
• But in Mid-Victorian England fettered by centuries of tradition ...
• It was in this same era, when the British Press was ringing with the ...
• Stirling was equipped with vision. He saw that railroads in England...
• Fredrick Henry Royce found his ideal in Patrick Sterling. He journeyed to Peterborough...
• Stripped to the waist and blinded with sweat from those early crude furnaces ...
• Working directly under Sterling himself, Royce learned the necessity of ...
• Interesting Stories are still told of those early Stirling locomotives ...
• Sterling's predictions that his locomotives must run a million miles and more ...
• During the decade that the youthful Royce worked in the Peterborough railway ...
• But even while working continuously with steel, Royce never lost his...
• His ambitions were realized a decade later in the establishment of a small plant of his own...
• A timid man by nature, one of his greatest fears was that through some act of his a fellow...
• The fin de siècle brought with it many engrossing problems for British economists. ...
• The new century also brought with it a new form of transportation. ...
• After an examination of the various types of motor cars, Mr. Royce purchased his own...
• This momentous decision had far reaching results, greater by far than he ever...
• For the design of his new car he employed a young draftsman who claimed to be fully...
• Not only must these experimental cars be built with the same precision as the electrical...
• The three cars which were completed in the Spring of 1904 ...
• He expressed himself as enchanted with this new automobile...
• The Rolls-Royce company was formed as a private...
• In those early years the Rolls-Royce argosies sailed perilously close to the reefs of failure...
• Although it was a 20 horse power car that won the Tourist Trophy Race...
• After this important decision had been reached a limited liability company...
• After moving to Derby the success of the Rolls-Royce company...
• Ever on the alert to obtain greater silence both as to engine...
• During these years of planning and development Mr. Royce ...
• In the autumn of 1914 Rolls-Royce responded to Britain's call for men and ...
• No less efficient work was conducted against the Senussi, ...
• The only cars which did not return under their own power were direct...
• Even before Britain actually entered the war, ...
• Standing at eventide on the verandah of his home in Kent,...
• Although Rolls-Royce aero engines won new laurels for Mr. Royce...
• Immediately following America's entry into the war in 1917, ...
• The fact that Rolls-Royce aero engines were successfully...
• In 1919 an American company was formed under the fiscal direction of Alfred & Co...
• In the fall of 1919, some three score bench bred English ...
• It was only natural that many anticipated to teach...
• This was one occasion when the "English Invasion" proved highly successful. ...
• For the past five years Rolls-Royce cars have been made in their...
• If possible the ideals of the British plant are more jealously guarded in Springfield...
• The argument has been advanced, however, that although a man may be ...
• With such an esprit de corps, with such consummate care, skill, and...
• Fredrick Henry Royce although sixty three years of age works...
• The loyalty and true friendship borne him by his employees found...
• It is not given to many in this life to see the fulfillment of their boyhood...
• Illustrations with Captions