Statue of Sir (Frederick) Henry Royce, standing outside the company's HQ at Moor Lane, Derby

The statue inscription, brief life story of Frederick Henry Royce

Sir Henry Royce (March 27, 1863 - April 22, 1933) was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the Rolls-Royce company. Download high resolution version (300x665, 13 KB)Statue of Sir Frederick Henry Henry Royce, located at Moor Lane HQ, Derby. ... Download high resolution version (300x665, 13 KB)Statue of Sir Frederick Henry Henry Royce, located at Moor Lane HQ, Derby. ... Inscription on Henry Royces statue File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Inscription on Henry Royces statue File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in leap years). ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The Hon. ... Rolls-Royce Limited was a British car and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906 and was the result of a partnership formed in 1904. ...

Frederick Henry Royce was born in Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, near Peterborough, the son of James and Mary Royce (maiden name King) and was the youngest of their five children. His family ran a flour mill which they leased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners but the business failed and the family moved to London. His father died in 1872 and Royce had to go out to work selling newspapers and delivering telegrams, having had only one year of formal schooling. In 1878 he started an apprenticeship with the Great Northern Railway company at its works in Peterborough thanks to the financial help of an aunt. After three years the money ran out and, after a short time with a tool making company in Leeds, he returned to London and joined the Electric Light and Power Company. He moved to their Liverpool office in 1882. In 1884 with £20 of savings he entered a partnership with Ernest Claremont, a friend who contributed £50, and they started a business making domestic electric fittings in a workshop in Cooke Street, Hulme, Manchester. In 1894 they started making dynamos and electric cranes and F.H. Royce & Company was registered. The company was re-registered in 1899 as Royce Ltd and a further factory opened in Trafford Park, Manchester. Alwalton – in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England – is a village north west of Yaxley. ... Huntingdonshire (abbreviated Hunts) is a part of England around Huntingdon, which is currently administered as a local government district of Cambridgeshire. ... The City of Peterborough is a cathedral city and Unitary Authority in the East of England. ... The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company, founded by the London & York Railway Act of 1846. ... Statistics Population: 726,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Fire and... MACAN IS A GAY TWAT{| class=infobox bordered cellpadding=3 width=250 |+ style=font-size: larger; | City of Liverpool |- | colspan=2 style=text-align: center; background: white;| |- | colspan=2 style=background: #f0f0f0; font-weight: bolder;|Geography |- ! Status | Metropolitan borough, City (1880) |- ! Region | North West England |- ! Ceremonial county | Merseyside |- ! Historic county... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, North West England. ... Trafford Park is a big (1183 acres) industrial area in the Salford and Trafford areas of Greater Manchester in England. ...

With his fascination for all things mechanical he became interested in motor cars and bought first a small De Dion and in 1903 a second hand 1901 two cylinder Decauville. This did not meet his high standards and so he first improved it and then decided to manufacture a car of his own which he did in a corner of the workshop in 1904. Two more cars were made. Of the three, which were called Royces and had two cylinder engines, one was given to Ernest Claremont and the other sold to one of the other directors, Henry Edmunds. Edmunds was a friend of Charles Rolls who had a car showroom in London selling imported models and showed him his car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel Manchester. Rolls was impressed and agreed to take all the cars Royce could make provided they had at least four cylinders and were called Rolls-Royce. The first Rolls-Royce car was made in December 1904 and in 1906 they joined forces to become Rolls-Royce Ltd. Royce & Company remained in business as a separate company making cranes until 1933. A De Dion-Bouton from 1899, from a French museum in Paris [1] De Dion-Bouton was a French automobile manufacturer operating from 1883 to 1932. ... Name plate of the Decauville company Paul Decauville (1846-1922) was a French pioneer in light railways. ... The Midland Hotel, Manchester. ...

He had always worked hard and was renowned for never eating proper meals which resulted in him being taken ill in 1911. He had a house built at Le Canadel in the south of France and a further home at Crowborough in Sussex but his health deteriorated further. He had a major operation in London in 1912 and was given only a few months to live by the doctors. In spite of this he returned to work but was prevented from visiting the factory, which had moved to larger premises, fitted out to detailed plans by Royce, in Derby in 1908. He insisted on checking all new designs and engineers and draughtsmen had to take the drawings to be personally checked by him, a daunting prospect with his well known perfectionism. He also continued to do design work himself particularly on the aircraft engines that the company was starting to make and it was for this that he was created a Baronet in 1931. Crowborough is the largest inland town in East Sussex, United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Derby (disambiguation). ... A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt), is the holder of an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown, known as a baronetcy. ...

Henry Royce married Minnie Punt in 1893 and they set up home together in Knutsford, Cheshire and were joined by Royce's mother until her death in 1904. After he was taken ill, he and Minnie lived separately and Royce was looked after by a nurse, Ethel Aubin. Statistics Population: 19,607 (2001) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SJ753782 Administration District: Macclesfield Shire county: Cheshire Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Cheshire Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Cheshire Fire and rescue: Cheshire Ambulance: North West Post office and telephone...

In 1962 a memorial window dedicated to his memory was unveiled in Westminster Abbey the only time an engineer has been honoured in this way. The Abbeys western façade The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral (and indeed often mistaken for one), in Westminster, London, just to the west...

External links

• The Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation
• The Sir Henry Royce Foundation, Australia