motoring news ROLLS-ROYCE Celebrates 118th Anniversary Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has marked the 118th anniversary of the first meeting between its founders, Henry Royce and The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, which took place at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, England in 1904. Through the combination of Royce’s engineering genius and Rolls’ talent for promotion, their company soon became recognised as the maker of ‘the best car in the world’ – a title that Rolls-Royce Motor Cars lays claim to still. Today, the marque’s pinnacle product, the Phantom, is the ultimate expression of Bespoke luxury designed and handmade at the Home of Rolls-Royce, Goodwood. The Phantom family was born in 1925 when Rolls-Royce launched Phantom I. With its massive low-range torque and cutting-edge technology, the new model immediately established the fundamental traits that would define the family for the next 100 years. Phantom II gave customers a choice of a more performance-orientated model in 1930. The most recent model, 2021’s Phantom VIII, was specifically designed to be the ultimate platform for Bespoke commissions. This has resulted in some of the most technically ambitious and challenging projects ever undertaken by the marque’s designers, engineers and specialist craftspeople. It is also the only Rolls-Royce model to feature the Gallery – an uninterrupted swathe of glass that runs the full width of the fascia, behind which the client can display a commissioned work of art or design. 1930 ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM II 1937 ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM III 1933 ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM II CONTINENTAL 1965 ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM V 2021 ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM VIII (PHANTOM ORIBE) 1966 ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM VI 2015 ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM VII (SERENITY PHANTOM) www.bahrainthismonth.com 72 June 2022
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