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In 1884, royce started an electrical and mechanical business. He made his first car, a "royce", in his manchester factory in 1904. He was introduced to rollsin manchester in that year, and the pair agreed to a deal where royce would manufacture cars, to be sold exclusively by rolls. A clause was added to the contract stipulating the cars would be called "rolls-royce". The company was formed in 1906, and moved to derby in 1908. The silver ghost (1906-1925) was responsible for the company's early reputation. It had a 6-cylinder engine; 6173 cars were built. In 1921, the company opened a second factory in springfield, ma to help meet us demand, where a further 1701 "springfield ghosts" were built. This factory operated for 10 years, closing in 1931. From then until 2002, bentley and rolls-royce cars were often identical apart from the radiator grille and minor details. Rolls-royce and bentley car production moved to crewe in 1946, and also to mulliner park ward, london, in 1959, as the company started to build bodies for its cars for the first time: previously it had built only the chassis, leaving the bodies to specialist coachbuilders. The phantom was the replacement for the original ghost. Like the famed ghost, the phantom was constructed both in the uk and us, with the us model trailing the uk by one year on introduction and two in replacement. One major improvement over the silver ghost was the new pushrod ohv straight 6 engine. Constructed, as was state of the art at the time, as three groups of two cylinders with detachable heads, the large engine produced excellent power to pull the large heavy car. The engine used a 4¼ in bore and long 5½ in stroke for a total of 7. 7 l of displacement. Aluminum was substituted for cast iron in the cylinder heads in 1928. Semi-elliptical springs suspended the front, while cantilever springs were used in the rear. 4-wheel servo-assisted brakes were also specified, though some initial us models lacked front brakes. Differences between the us and uk models included available wheelbases— both were specified with the same 143½ in base length, but the uk long-wheelbase model was longer at 150½ than the 146½ in american version. Other differences included the transmission, with uk models using a 4-speed and us models using a 3-speed, both with a single dry-plate clutch. Uk models were built at rolls' derby factory, while us phantoms were built in springfield, mass. 2269 pi's were produced in derby and 1243 in springfield. Two american designers, thomas l hibbard and raymond h dietrich had met while working for brewster. Tiring of the corporate environment they started freelance work in their spare time and when william h brewster discovered this he fired dietrich and hibbard left. They decided to set up on their own and formed a new company and called it lebaron after a family friend. Lebaron did not build car bodies, they sold designs. Fellow designer, howard "dutch" darrin met tom hibbard in 1923. Hibbard by this time had left lebaron and the two decided to go to paris, initially to try to sell lebaron designs but instead decided to set up their own company and founded hibbard & darrin. Over the next few years they built innovatively styled bodies on many of europe's most prestigious chassis but the partnership ended in 1931 when hibbard returned to the usa to take up a position in gm's design department. One innovation they pioneered is the "sylentlyte" body building method derived in part from rail cars. This utilized cast aluminum as a primary structure as opposed to the wooden frames used commo.
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