Step into the history of class & comfort
On May 4, 1904, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met for the first time in a hotel in Manchester. Royce, as an engineer, strove for mechanical perfection; Rolls was a pioneer in the automotive and aviation industries. They made an agreement, and in the same year, the Rolls-Royce 10 HP was built.
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Silver Wraith
Car with a toilet. Under the rear seat of this Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, ordered in 1954 by the eccentric American businessman Joseph Maschuch, there is an actual toilet with a gold-colored seat.
Furthermore, the car is equipped with air conditioning, a bar, a telephone, and a television – one of the first car televisions ever. The engine block, alternator, starter motor, and carburetor are painted green, all according to the customer’s wishes.
Rolls-Royce 40/50HP
Phantom Barker Torpedo Tourer
Maharajas and other Indian rulers were regular customers of Rolls-Royce during the time when India was still a British colony. The Nawab (Prime Minister) of Hyderabad, named Wali-ud-Dowla, commissioned Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. in Bombay at the end of 1925 to deliver a model of the then-new Phantom I, the successor to the Silver Ghost.
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Silver Ghost Shooting Brake
Landowner John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the seventh Duke of Buccleuch and ninth Duke of Queensberry, great-uncle of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, and descendant of four British monarchs, commissioned the manufacture of this Rolls-Royce in 1910. The bodywork was created by the Scottish royal supplier Croall & Croall in Kelso.
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