#287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce

#287劳斯莱斯创始人

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2023-01-24

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What I learned from rereading Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name: The First Forty Years of Britain s Most Prestigious Company by Peter Pugh.

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  • The historic first meeting of Rolls and Royce took place in 1904.

  • The two men could hardly have come from different backgrounds.

  • CS Rolls had been educated at Cambridge and moved comfortably in London society.

  • Among his aristocratic and wealthy friends, Henry Royce had known poverty and hardship all of his life.

  • The only university he graduated from was the one of hard knocks.

  • The one characteristic they had in common was a certain prickliness.

  • This is how Rolls described the first time he met Royce.

  • You may ask yourselves how it was that it came to be associated with Mister Royce.

  • For years, I had been engaged in the sale of foreign cars.

  • I wanted to be able to recommend and sell the best cars in the world.

  • The cars I sold were the best that could be got at that time.

  • But I always had a sort of feeling that I should be selling english cars instead of foreign ones.

  • I noticed a growing desire of my clients to purchase english made cars.

  • At the same time, I could not come across any english made car that I really liked.

  • Eventually, I was fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of Mister Royce, and in him I found the man that I had been looking for for years.

  • It was immediately clear two rules, that Henry Royce was an unusual talent.

  • Rolls, at this time, had a prejudice against two cylinder engine cars.

  • And so he climbed into the passenger seat of Henry Royces little two cylinder car, prepared for all the vibration and roughness that were usually associated with that type.

  • To his amazement, he found that the car had a smoothness and a quite phenomenal degree of silence.

  • He came, he rode, and he was conquered.