1. The Phantom Rolls-Royce featured in the film The Yellow Rolls-Royce is now owned by Neal Kirkham of Saratoga, California.

2. The story of the Rolls-Royce founders was the subject of a 1972 BBC drama, Mr Rolls and Mr Royce, starring Robert Powell and Michael Jayston.

3. The first Rolls-Royce State car, a Phantom IV, had a unique mascot, depicting St George slaying the dragon.

4. Since 1955, Rolls-Royce has had the right to display the Royal Coat of Arms with the motto, "By appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II motor car manufacturers".

5. After Henry Royce’s father died in1872, the boy worked as a newspaper seller and telegram delivery boy. He only had one year of formal schooling.

6. Charles Stewart Rolls was the second person in Britain to get a flying license from the Royal Aero Club - and the first to be killed in an aeroplane accident.

7. Rolls-Royce of America Inc. produced its first car in 1921.

8.  A Rolls-Royce owner in Boston, Massachusetts, opened a restaurant called Bette’s Rolls Royce; it served a cocktail called a Rolls Royce, a mixture of gin, sweet and dry vermouth and Benedictine.

9. Indian maharajas often customised their Rolls-Royces by decorating them with gold and jewels.

10. In the 1960s, John Lennon commissioned a team of Dutch gypsy artists to give his Rolls-Royce Phantom a psychedelic design.