Rolls-Royce Inhibited is a renowned British car-manufacturing and, later, aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce on 15 March 1906 as the result of a partnership composed in 1904. In integration to the company's reputation for superior engineering quality which has led to its epithet as the "best car in the world", Rolls-Royce Inhibited was kenned for manufacturing the high-powered "R" engines responsible for land and air speed records as well as prosperous performances in automobile racing.
In 1971, Rolls-Royce was crippled by the costs of developing the advanced RB211 jet engine, resulting in the nationalisation of the company as Rolls-Royce (1971) Constrained. In 1973, the car division was dissevered from the parent company as Rolls-Royce Motors. Rolls-Royce (1971) Constrained perpetuated as a nationalised company until it was privatised in 1987 as Rolls-Royce plc.
Rolls-Royce commenced to engender diesel engines in 1951. Initially, these were intended for heftily ponderous tractors and earth-movers but, later, they were installed in lorries (e.g. Scammell), railcars, diesel multiple units and Sentinel shunting locomotives. Rolls-Royce surmounted Sentinel's Shrewsbury factory for diesel engine engenderment in 1956. The Rolls-Royce diesel business was acquired by Perkins in the 1980s.
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