Rolls-Royce

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.rolls-royce.com/northamerica/facilities/corporation.htm
Employees: 6,225

When it comes to US manufacturing, Rolls-Royce Corporation is getting the work done for UK's Rolls-Royce. Part of Rolls-Royce North America, Rolls-Royce Corporation is the company's largest North American manufacturing site and the global headquarters for the company's Helicopters and Small Gas Turbine Engines, and Corporate and Regional Aircraft. It makes aircraft engines, liftfans, turboprops, and turboshafts for civil and military applications. Rolls-Royce, in conjunction with General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, provide engine technology (vertical lift components for short take-off and vertical landing) for the Joint Strike Fighter (now officially named Lightning II) program.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $593.9M

Officers:
COO: Steven F. (Steve) Dwyer
VP, Finance and IT: Aerospace & Defense Parts Manufacturing

Competitors:
GE Aviation
Honeywell International
Pratt & Whitney

The Rolls Royce mascot "The Spirit of Ecstasy"

A Rolls-Royce car may refer to vehicles produced by:

• Rolls-Royce Limited (1906–73)
• Rolls-Royce Motors (1973–2003), which was owned by Vickers between 1980 and 1998, and after that by Volkswagen. Since 2003, this company has been known as Bentley Motors Limited, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group
• Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (2003–present), a subsidiary of the BMW Group

Contents 1 Vehicles 1.1 Rolls-Royce Limited vehicles 1.2 Rolls-Royce Motors vehicles 1.3 Rolls-Royce Motor Cars vehicles 2 See also 3 Gallery 4 References

Vehicles

Rolls-Royce Limited vehicles

• 1904–06 10 hp
• 1905–05 15 hp
• 1905–08 20 hp
• 1905–06 30 hp
• 1905–06 V-8
• 1906–25 40/50 Silver Ghost
• 1922–29 Twenty
• 1925–29 40/50 Phantom
• 1929–36 20/25
• 1929–35 Phantom II
• 1936–38 25/30
• 1936–39 Phantom III
• 1938–39 Wraith
• 1946–59 Silver Wraith
• 1949–55 Silver Dawn
• 1950–56 Phantom IV
• 1955–66 Silver Cloud
• 1959–68 Phantom V
• 1965–80 Silver Shadow
• 1968–91 Phantom VI
• 1971–96 Corniche I–V

Bentley models (from 1933)

• 1933–37 Bentley 3½ L
• 1936–39 Bentley 4¼ L
• 1940–40 Bentley 4¼ L Mark V

Rolls-Royce Motors vehicles

• 1975–86 Camargue
• 1980–98 Silver Spirit/Silver Spur

Bentley models were produced mostly in parallel with the above cars. The Bentley Continental coupés (produced in various forms from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s) did not have Rolls-Royce equivalents. Very expensive Rolls-Royce Phantom limousines were also produced.

• 1998–2002 Silver Seraph
• 2000–02 Corniche V

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars vehicles

• 2003– Phantom
• 2007– Phantom Drophead Coupé
• 2008– Phantom Coupé
• 2010- Ghost

See also

• The Yellow Rolls-Royce
• FAB1

Gallery

Original 1905 Rolls-Royce	1979 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II	1982 Rolls-Royce Camargue
Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph	1994 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur Armoured Touring Limousine	2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Rolls-Royce vehicles

• "Rolls-Royce and Bentley Models". Rolls-Royce and Bentley Photos, Reports and Books. http://www.rrab.com/models.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-27. 

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marque	1900s					1910s					1920s					1930s					1940s					1950s					1960s					1970s					1980s					1990s					2000s
Rolls-Royce			Rolls-Royce Limited													Rolls-Royce Limited & Bentley																					Rolls-Royce Motors				Rolls-Royce Motors (Vickers)									BMW & VW Group			BMW
Bentley											Bentley																																							Volkswagen Group
Armstrong Siddeley					Siddeley-Deasy					Armstrong Whitworth					Armstrong Siddeley																Bristol Siddeley				Rolls-Royce Limited										Rolls-Royce plc
Aston Martin							Aston Martin																		Aston Martin Lagonda																						PAG (Ford)								Aston Martin Lagonda
Lagonda			Lagonda
Jaguar												SS Cars												Jaguar							Jaguar & Daimler			BMH	British Leyland							Jaguar & Daimler				PAG (Ford)									Tata
Daimler	Daimler					BSA										BSA
Lanchester	Lanchester
Rover		Rover																						Rover									Rover									Austin Rover Group & Land Rover Group (BL plc)				Rover Group (BAe)		Rover Group (BMW)			MG & Rover (BMW)
Land Rover																																																			PAG (Ford)
Alvis												Alvis																																				BAE Systems
Standard		Standard																					Standard Triumph								Leyland Motors																	British Motor Heritage
Triumph						Dawson					Triumph																																					BMW
Riley	Riley																			Nuffield Organisation							BMC							BMH
MG												Morris Garages (MG)																																				Rover Group (BMW)			MG Rover Group (Phoenix)			SAIC + NAC	SAIC
Morris							Morris												Morris
Wolseley	Wolseley
Austin			Austin																					Austin
Vanden Plas			Vanden Plas
Mini																																																			Mini (BMW)
Austin-Healey																											Austin (BMC) & Donald Healey
Jensen																		Jensen Motors																					Britcar Holdings					Jensen Cars
Reliant																			Reliant																			Reliant
Bond																									Bond
AC			AC Cars (several ownership & company name changes)
Argyll	Argyll																																							Argyll
Bristol Cars																							Bristol Cars
Caterham																																						Caterham
Crossley			Crossley
Dutton																																				Dutton												Dutton
Ginetta																													Ginetta
Gordon-Keeble																													Peerless & Warwick			Gordon-Keeble
Jowett				Jowett																									Blackburn
Lea-Francis		Lea-Francis
Lotus																											Lotus																	GM Europe (General Motors)					Proton
McLaren																																													McLaren
Marcos																													Marcos											Marcos												Marcos
Morgan					Morgan
Napier	Napier
Turner																											Turner
TVR																								TVR
Westfield																																										Westfield												Potenza Sports Cars
GTM																																		GTM
Vauxhall		Vauxhall Motors										General Motors																																GM Europe (General Motors)
Vulcan		Vulcan
Hillman				Hillman										Humber				Rootes																	Chrysler Europe (Chrysler)					Peugeot (PSA)
Humber	Humber
Singer			Singer																										Rootes
Sunbeam	Sunbeam										Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq							Rootes			(as Sunbeam-Talbot) Rootes						Rootes
Talbot		Talbot
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