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HISTORY OF ROLLS-ROYCE — 1906 to 1912 who would be quite acceptable in ordinary engineering works would be unsuitable for us and for our standard of work. To produce the most perfect cars you must have the most perfect workmen, and having got those workmen, it is our 1913 Spanish Grand Prix aim to educate them up so that each man in these works can do his particular work better than anyone else in the world.” Rolls spent the first few years marketing the vehicles and utilizing his Courtesy of Rolls-Royce North America connections within society and business, and friends – between auto shows, races, and networking, the brand’s reputation began to spread. Rolls still engaged with technological advancement and speed, spent much of his time flying, both in hot air balloons and airplanes. As Rolls-Royce became successful, he spent time pursuing his love of flight and speed. In June of 1910, Rolls became a national hero when he completed a double crossing of the English Channel. Forty days later, he participated in a flying display in a Wright bi-plane. In a maneuver that the plane’s body could not handle, the plane plunged to the ground and Rolls’ spirit left his “..the class of man who would be quite acceptable in ordinary engineering works would be unsuitable for us and for our standard of work. To produce the most perfect cars you must have the most perfect workmen...” —Charles Rolls body, but his legacy and ideologies carry on with the Rolls-Royce brand. The next year, in 1911, Royce fell ill, after years of overwork. He was known for not eating properly and working well into the night. He moved away from Derby but all designs went through him and he was involved in all designs going forward. 28
HISTORY OF ROLLS-ROYCE— THE ALPINE TRAIL In 1912, Rolls-Royce entered the Alpine Trial race, but the car did not complete the trial. During the next year, Royce and his team diligently went about building a vehicle that would survive the terrain, with speed and a smooth ride for the next year’s competition. During 1913 Alpine Trail, Rolls-Royce successfully completed the Trail and seemed to have surpassed anyone’s expectations. Charles Freeson wrote in Autocar: “The Rolls-Royces came past in great style, and I am bound to say that I have never seen anything more beautiful in the way of locomotion than the way in which they flew past… Courtesy of Rolls-Royce North America the sigh of a group of cars running up a mountain road at high speed; with superbly easy motion to which each little variation in the curves gave semblance of a grey- Eric Platford, 1913 Alpenfahrt Courtesy of Rolls-Royce North America hound in stride, was inspiring to a degree…it was a spectacle, indeed, worth going many a long mile to see.” With the success of the Alpine Trail and the Spanish Grand Prix, Rolls-Royce brand ’s reputation “The Rolls-Royces came past in great style, and I am bound to say that I have never seen anything more beautiful in the way of locomotion than the way in which they flew past…” -Charles Freeson, Autocar magazine 29
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