Henry Royce

Engineering, Manchester and Derby. Royce, a self-taught engineer who had started as a newspaper boy, built his first car in 1904 because he was dissatisfied with the one he owned, and with Charles Rolls founded Rolls-Royce. His obsession with precise fitting, testing and reliability, captured in his instruction to take the best that exists and make it better, defined the brand. The same standards later went into aero engines.