Rolls Royce

From its origins as a partnership between an electrical and mechanical business and a quality motor car business in the early 1900s, Rolls Royce has become one of the most famous engineering brands in the world. Since breaking the air, land and water speed records in the 1930s they have developed into one of the world's leading producers of aero engines for large civil aircraft and corporate jets as well as a global provider of defence aero engines and services. A British multi-national holding company, it operates through various subsidiaries in over 50 counties worldwide. The motor car business was floated as a separate entity in 1973, later becoming part of BMW in 2003, and is headquartered in Goodwood, England.