Rolls-Royce: In Pursuit of Mechanical Perfection

Credit: Photography courtesy of Rolls-Royce
The first gasoline-powered vehicle appeared in 1865, and by the late 1880s car manufacturers were selling their noisy, smoke-spewing and pricey contraptions throughout Western Europe. Charles Stewart Rolls, the well-heeled son of a British lord, became one of his country's first "automobilists," and...

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