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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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