A Rolls-Royce wedding car is surely one of the all-time classic wedding cars. Appropriately, for Manchester wedding car hire, the roots of Rolls-Royce will always be embedded in Manchester.
Rolls-Royce, made in Manchester
Henry Royce made his first car, called a “Royce” from his Manchester workshop. He also formed Rolls Royce Limited after his meeting with Charles Stewart Rolls in the newly constructed, The Midland Hotel, again in Manchester in 1904. The history of Rolls-Royce is now legendary, and as a wedding car, Rolls-Royce is an epic.
Rolls-Royce wedding cars
Today, if you asked someone what their ideal wedding car would be, then the name Rolls-Royce wouldn’t be far from their lips. Whether it be a classic or vintage Rolls-Royce or the stunning new Phantom, hiring a Rolls-Royce wedding car will never fail to turn heads and leave a memorable impression. With today’s mass-produced cars, things that Henry Royce worked so hard to perfect in his engineering development on the early Rolls-Royce cars are now common place and expected. Yet, in the early days of motoring cars were notoriously unreliable and noisy. Rolls-Royce changed this with their remarkable Silver Ghost model in 1908. Autocar famously dubbed it the "best car in the world" and you could reason that Rolls-Royce have held on to this title for a century of motoring, especially after the introduction of the new Rolls-Royce Phantom in 2003.
Rolls-Royce Phantom
Many felt that when BMW took over the stewardship of the manufacture of Rolls-Royce motor cars, this iconic legend of the automotive world would never be quite the same. However, their first Rolls-Royce was to be made in a similarly brand new, and state-of-the-art factory in Goodwood, England. This amazing factory was to produce a most splendid new model, thanks to the Phantom’s bold new design. Ian Cameron, the director of design for Rolls-Royce, said "Typically, the customer who buys a Rolls-Royce is celebrating something.". Typically, someone who is getting married, is celebrating one of the most important days of their lives. Consequently new Rolls-Royce Phantom wedding car is a fabulous bridal car. A fitting send-off for one of the most important journeys you will ever take.
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Rolls-Royce, a celebration
When you take a look at a list of Rolls-Royce motor cars owners. You can be left in no doubt as to the cars celebrated stature. Previous Rolls-Royce owners include royal families, world leaders, Nobel Prize winners, and celebrated authors, artistes, rock and movie stars, including:
The British Royal Family, Prince Birabongse of Siam, Princess Grace of Monaco, The Sultan of Brunei, numerous Maharajas, Marie Dowager Empress of Russia, King Constantine of Greece, Tsar Nicholas II, The Shah of Persia and the Queen Mothers of Nepal. Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Alfred Nobel, Guglielmo Marconi, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway, Woodrow Wilson, John Lennon, Paul McCartney. Michael Caine, P.G. Wodehouse, Richard Burton, Rudolph Valentino, Henry Ford, Peter Sellers, Barbra Streisand, Leonid Brezhnev, Brigitte Bardot, Gary Cooper, Keith Moon, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Muhammad Ali.
