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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
YOU
KNOW THOSE STORIES ABOUT ROLLS-ROYCE?
THEY ARE ALL TRUE
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has seen a significant interest in the myths and legends that endear so many to the brand. This trend began ever since it revealed that it equips Bespoke commissioned motor cars with a refrigerator that has two cooling modes: ‘Summer’ and ‘Winter’ to ensure that occupants’ beverages are delivered at the optimum temperature for the season.
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In this spirit, now it is time to share more of the
truths that have defined the modern Rolls-Royce success story.
1)
At
its prototype stage, the 6.75-litre Rolls-Royce V12 engine had to
faultlessly revolve 750 million times before being approved for production.
2)
The
mechanism that retracts the Spirit of Ecstasy to
prevent theft and damage is comprised of 24 unseen linkages and bearings.
3)
The
Spirit of Ecstasy is so
valued by the marque that there is a safe lock on the shop floor containing no
more mascots than necessary for a single day of production. The code is known
only by a small circle of craftspeople.
4)
14
highly qualified Rolls-Royce engineers run a fleet of 16 intensive test vehicles 365 days
a year on top of their normal workloads. They do this without complaint.
5)
The
sensors in a Rolls-Royce are so
sensitive they can detect if a driver or passenger shifts their body weight
from one side to the other and adapt accordingly.
6)
The
1300 Watt, 18 Channel, 18 speaker Bespoke Audio system in a
Rolls-Royce is so exhaustively tuned, interior designers must seek the
permission of the audio engineer who created it before making any design
changes.
7)
Over
25-metres of cabling is used to transfer audio data in a Rolls-Royce. Fiber-optic cabling is used
to ensure immunity against interference.
8) Over 100 microprocessors decipher 130 million lines of code, ensuring every Rolls-Royce’s suite of cutting- edge technological features can be called upon instantly and seamlessly by the driver or passengers.
9)
Much
like the wood veneer inside a Rolls-Royce motor car, the weave of the carbon-fiber
that makes up the central spine of Dawn’s ‘Aero Cowling’ tonneau
cover is expertly book-matched by hand to achieve a perfect chevron pattern.
10)
To
support his endeavors photographing Cullinan Black Badge in Greater Los
Angeles, Rolls-Royce created a Bespoke, fully automated Recreation Module for
photographer, Mark Riccioni. Trimmed in finest Forge Yellow leather, its
contents included a DJI Mavic Mini drone, Apple iPad Pro, Apple MacBook Pro and
streetwear by Supreme.
11)
In
2017, the year the marque launched its eighth Phantom, Bloomberg conducted a
study that researched the most mentioned brands in pop
music.
Rolls-Royce topped the list, beating Ferrari, Hennessy and Rolex.
12)
Before
building the ‘Clean Room’ where
the ‘Gallery’ fascia within Rolls-Royce Phantom is assembled, Associates from
The Home of Rolls-Royce visited pharmaceutical and microprocessor Clean Rooms
in order to fully understand these complex manufacturing laboratories.
13)
A
sensor within the Gallery Clean
Room continually measures the particle concentration in microns – an alert is
sent if particles are detected at a size larger than 0.001 of a micron. The
width of a human hair is between 50-100 microns in diameter.
14)
A
Rolls-Royce Black Badge Wraith ascended
the famous hill-climb at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed in just 52.71
seconds. A feat that could not be bettered by two Maseratis, a Porsche and a
Bentley.
15) Sommeliers advise that the optimum serving temperatures of non-vintage Champagne is six degrees centigrade and vintage Champagnes is 11 degrees centigrade. Rolls-Royce equips its motor cars with a bespoke refrigerator that operates two cooling modes, chilling to six degrees and 11 degrees, respectively.
16)
Starlight Headliner, one the
marque’s most popular Bespoke features, is comprised of 1340 individually
hand-woven fiber-optics. Customers can specify a specific constellation which
will be verified by a local Observatory. In total over 2km of cabling is
painstakingly hand-woven to achieve this.
17)
When
Rolls-Royce announced the commencement of the ‘Project Cullinan’ development program, it was
felt appropriate that HM Queen and the Prime Minister was informed shortly
before the press. Officials at Number 10 were so compelled by the news they
sent the Prime Minister to the Home of Rolls-Royce to mark the announcement.
18)
One
lady asked for the leather color of her Rolls-Royce to be matched to her Red Setter. This
was achieved with no harm to the dog.
19)
The
marque’s first showroom in Conduit Street, Mayfair was
founded a short step from London’s famous center of tailoring, Savile Row.
Here, Sir Henry Royce and his partner The Honorable Charles Rolls echoed the
offerings of their neighbors by providing London’s most stylish clients with
the automotive equivalent of the finest cloths; a perfectly engineered
Rolls-Royce chassis and running gear.
20)
Imperfections
have no place at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. Leather is
sourced from only the finest bulls, reared at high-altitude to avoid stretching
and insect bites. Blemishes, imperceptible to the untrained eye are rejected,
with off-cut leather being passed down to the fashion industry. The hides are
sourced from the meat industry.
21)
It
takes 17 days to handcraft the leather elements of a
Rolls-Royce interior.
22)
To
achieve the marque’s mirror-like finish, at least 5 layers of paint are
applied by the only robots you will find at the Home of Rolls-Royce. Any
hard-to-reach spots are painted by highly skilled paint experts. In total, the
process of applying a flawless exterior finish takes seven days and uses over
100lb of paint.
23)
The
most detailed single piece of embroidery to feature in a Rolls-Royce motor car
is a Peregrine Falcon, the
fastest bird in the world. The photo-realistic design consists of nearly
250,000 stitches and took a team of designers, craftspeople, and engineers over
one month to develop.
24)
The
48 painstakingly crafted wood parts that
comprise a Phantom interior take 28 days to produce. A sense of seamless flow of
grain is ensured by only using wood from one tree for each motor car.
25)
Mark
Court is the only man in the able to hand-apply a perfectly straight Phantom
coachline.
In total it takes 3 hours per side. He uses special brushes made from ox and
squirrel hair to ensure the line is precisely level and a uniform 3mm in width.
He honed his steady-hand painting pub-signs.
26)
A
Rolls-Royce is so quiet, Sir Henry Royce ordered the fitting of signs at the
factory proclaiming ‘Caution, Silent Cars’. Modern health and safety dictate that
craftspeople maneuvering cars around the Manufacturing Plant must
intermittently sound the horn as a warning.
27)
A
Rolls-Royce rides on a 16-litre air cushion married to dampers and springs that
dynamically adjust themselves every five milliseconds to deliver the marque’s sovereign magic carpet
ride
28)
Legend
has it that during a particularly spirited birthday celebration, Keith Moon
drove his Corniche into a hotel swimming pool. This story is untrue – he was
far too fond of his Rolls-Royce to let it come to harm.
29)
When
creating the Rolls-Royce Architecture, on
which all contemporary Rolls-Royces are built, engineers incorporated a
resonance chamber into the body’s sill section. This, essentially, transforms
the body of the motor car into a subwoofer, delivering exceptional low
frequency audio performance.
30)
While
test driving a Rolls-Royce Dawn, an
American journalist drove through an earthquake that measured 3.6 on the
Richter scale, followed by an aftershock that measured 2.6 on the Richter
scale. Owing to the marque’s hallmark magic carpet ride, he was unaware of this
until the following morning.
31)
The
brief given to the marque’s engineers tasked with developing the roof mechanism
for the Rolls-Royce Dawn was to
create a silent ballet. They emphatically succeeded. While being the largest
production convertible roof in the world, it is also the quietest.
32) Rolls-Royce’s craftspeople have been drawn from a variety of industries including make-up artists, tattooists, military tailoring and even a former parliamentary red box maker.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the BMW Group and is a completely separate company from
Rolls-Royce plc, the manufacturer of aircraft engines and propulsion systems.
Over 2,000 skilled men and women are employed at the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars’
head office and manufacturing plant at Goodwood, West Sussex, the only place in
the world where the company’s super-luxury motor cars are hand-built.
IMAGES BASED ON CATEGORY
GOODWOOD LEATHER, THE BESTV IN THE WORLD
MARK COURT THE ARTIST WITH NERVES OF STEEL WHICH NEVER WAVER TO MAINTAIN INCREDIBLE CONSTANCY
SUPREME CRAFTSMEN AND WOMEN
FOR CONSISTENCY 1 TREE IS USED FOR 1 ROLLS-ROYCE
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