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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory British engineer and designer Sir Rice was born on March 27, 1863
On this day, 162 years ago, on March 27, 1863 (February 9, 1863, the lunar calendar), Sir Rice, one of the founders of the famous car "Rolls-Royce", was born. Laws and Les Frederic Henry Les, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce, Frederic Henry Les was born on March 27, 1863 into a poor miller family. Due to the pressure of life, Les once sold newspapers on the street and later worked as an apprentice in the railway company. Despite his poor background, Rice showed a remarkable talent in machinery. In 1904, Les, who was over 40 years old, personally designed and built a 2-cylinder car. This car was a masterpiece at the time. It used a motor to start instead of a traditional rocker handle. It ran very smoothly and had a low failure rate. It happened that one of Rice's business partners, Henry Edmonds, was a member of the Royal Automobile Association. He told him, who was also a member of the Association, about this, but he was extremely interested. On May 4, 1904, under the recommendation of Henry Edmonds, the two met at the Milander Hotel in Manchester and hit it off at first sight. They jointly dreamed about the development of cars in the future, and casually sketched a car on a napkin. This became the first drawing of the world-famous Rolls-Royce car. The two decided to jointly form Rolls-Royce Motors Company, with Rice responsible for design and production, and Rolls responsible for sales. The two signed a cooperation agreement. In 1904, Rolls-Royce produced the first 10-horsepower model. The company branded the car "Rolls-Royce", so this car became Rolls-Royce's first car. The first batch of 10 cars produced, they participated in the car exhibition held in Paris that year and became famous. The company insisted on manual manufacturing. At that time, it took about 25 workers and 8 months to complete a car. These manpower and working hours allowed the vehicle to be carefully crafted from appearance to interior to strive for excellence. Since then, handmade manufacturing has become an unchanging tradition of Rolls-Royce. In March 1906, Rolls-Royce Motors Company was officially registered. At that time, Rolls-Royce produced a 4-cylinder 20-horsepower sedan, which won the British "Men's Island Travelers Cup" Car Competition. Victory. Rolls-Royce = Four-Wheel Mythical Rolls-Royce logo Charles Rolls-Henry Royce News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1bf7.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.09-20:54] 访问:77
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