Rolls-Royce history

  • Charles Stewart Rolls

    Charles Stewart Rolls

    Charles Stewart Rolls was raised in aristocratic privilege. As a third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock, they lived at The Hendre, Monmouth in Wales. Charles, born in 1877, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated in engineering. By the time he left university he was an enthusiastic and accomplished motorist,…

  • Rolls-Royce 10hp (1904-1906)

    Rolls-Royce 10hp (1904-1906)

    Before manufacturing his own car, Henry Royce owned a second-hand, 10hp two-cylinder French Decauville. The little car’s standard of construction and workmanship was not good and Royce wanted to improve its unreliable electrical system, general rough running and vibration that was the norm for vehicles of the time. Based on the Decauville, Henry Royce built…