Originally Posted By: damascus
While on the subject of Rolls Royce during the Great War the Crewe factory produced rifles amongst other things each one bearing the stamp RRC and can I say that sixty per cent of the total output of their cars are still road worthy. Though now Bentley cars come from the Rolls Royce factory in a small Cheshire town that hardly anyone has heard of not far from where I live. Though sadly it is another Brit car plant that our German cousins now own and of course the Rolls Royce car is now manufactured in Germany.


During the black days of ww2 could anyone imagine that one day rolls royce, who made a big war effort towards victory of the allies, would be in the hands of the germans.
Didn't the ford dagenham make prototype welrod pistols ? I know bsa made the few that were produced.