No roll-out for RR's bespoke Olympic medal. For the first time since 1904 Rolls Royce has changed its badge to celebrate the success of the London Olympics. Click here to read entire post: Rolls Takes Home A Medal from the Olympics read more »
The leapingDelage greyhound. Between the 1920s and 1950s, car manufacturers used stylish and elegant bonnet mascots to identify their cars and symbolise their companies brand noise. Mascots or emblems were a natural progression from radiator caps which in those days were bonnet-mounted and used by the driver to check the engine temperature. In 1912 the Boyce Motormeter Company developed a radiator cap that incorporated a thermometer with a sensor that measured the heat of the water vapour, rather than ... read more »