The Legend Begins On May 4, 1904, in the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England, two very different men met and changed the course of automotive history. The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, an aristocrat with a passion for mechanics and a Cambridge-educated engineer who ran one of Britain's first car dealerships in London, met Henry Royce, a self-taught engineering genius who had just built his first motor car. Rolls, frustrated that he could only sell foreign imports, was searching for a high-quality British-made vehicle. When Henry Edmunds, a mutual friend and director of Royce Limited, arranged the meeting, the chemistry was [...]