Rolls-Royce through the years - in pictures
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A 20-horsepower Rolls-Royce in 1905. In the back seat is Charles Stewart Rolls, who co-founded the company with Henry Royce a year earlier. All photos: Getty Images -
English car manufacturer Charles Stewart Rolls was also an aviation pioneer. -
The company's co-founder was English engineer Sir Frederick Henry Royce. -
American actress Corinne Griffith dressed as the 'Spirit of Ecstasy', the emblem seen on the bonnet of Rolls-Royce cars, in 1925. -
Hollywood film star Mae Murray and her Rolls-Royce 1929. -
A Rolls-Royce on the race track at Brooklands, Surrey, in 1929. -
A Rolls-Royce outside the Royal Academy's Burlington House in London in 1931. -
A Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn on the assembly line at the company's wfactory in Crewe, Cheshire, in 1950. -
US President Eisenhower and UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sitting in the back of a Rolls Royce in London in 1959. -
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor about to get into a Rolls-Royce outside the Hilton Hotel, London, in 1964. -
The launch of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow in 1965. -
A doorman salutes a guest arriving at the Hilton Hotel, London, in a Rolls Royce in 1965. -
A Rolls-Royce on display at the Motor Show in Earls Court, London, in 1965. -
John Lennon's Rolls Royce, decorated with signs of the zodiac and bunches of flowers, in Chertsey, Surrey in 1967. -
A modified Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow in pre-rally trials in Shropshire, in 1970. -
American singer Marvin Gaye walking ahead of his Rolls Royce in Notting Hill, London, in 1976. -
The new Rolls-Royce Phantom makes its debut in 2003. -
A Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead convertible on display at the International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007. -
The Rolls Royce Phantom VI used to carry Queen Elizabeth II is loaded on to a truck after her departure from Australia in 2006. -
A vintage Rolls-Royce drives through London in 2011, during a parade celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 'Spirit of Ecstasy' emblem. -
A Rolls Royce 102 EX at the Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland in 2011. -
A Rolls-Royce at the Dubai Airshow in 2013. -
A Rolls-Royce Wraith at the Geneva International Motor Show in 2019.
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