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ROLLS-ROYCE
The name Rolls-Royce has been associated with high-quality cars for over a century. The first RollsRoyce
was produced in 1905, as a result of the \(1\) ..... efforts of Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick
Henry Royce.
Rolls, an upper-class Londoner who was \(2\) ..... at Eton and Cambridge University, started a company in
1902 to sell motor-cars. Royce, an engineering genius, \(3\) ..... from a working-class background. He began
his apprenticeship in a railway workshop at the age of 14, but by the age of 21 he had \(4\) ..... up his own
engineering business. Royce designed several motor-cars, and his first experimental model \(5\) ..... in 1903.
\(6\) ..... after that, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met, \(7\) ..... the Rolls-Royce manufacturing firm in 1904.
Royce designed the motor-cars and Rolls sold them. Rolls, who had \(8\) ..... himself a reputation as a keen
racing motorist, also had a passion for flying. In 1910, at the age of only 33, he sadly met his death in a
plane crash - in \(9\) ..... , he was the first Englishman to die in this way. Royce, however, continued work
on their shared dream, and went on to develop his first aero-engine in 1915. The Rolls-Royce Merlin aeroengine
later powered British fighter aeroplanes in World War II. On Royce's death in 1933, the famous
Rolls-Royce monogram was changed from red to black as a \(10\) ..... of respect for the great man.

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