As we all know, the three-dimensional logo of the British royal car "Rolls Royce" is a silver flashing "flying goddess" statue. This statue of "Goddess of Flying" is designed by designer Charles Sykes based on the female secretary of his friend John montague. This is a love story between Cinderella and the prince. Eleanor Thornton is a bad karma girl who was abandoned by her father when she was young, and lived alone with her mother who polished shoes for a living. In order to support her family and treat her mother who was seriously ill in bed, she could only go to a nightclub as a social butterfly.
One day in 192, Thornton met her prince charming, John montague, and their love was connected by seven sketches drawn by montague while dancing for her.
Although they fell in love, their disparate status was doomed to be unlucky in the social environment at that time. Montague is a British Conservative MP from a noble family, a man of the hour, and also served as the editor-in-chief of Automotive Illustrated. Thornton is just a dancer. Just like the plot of fairy tales, the prince and Cinderella are bound to be blocked by the outside world, and the resistance here comes from Montague's family. Finally, because of the deception of montague's family, Thornton, who was pregnant, left silently, while montague finally stopped believing in faithful love and began to lead a dissolute life, and married a noble lady.
The misfortune of montague's marriage makes him spend all day in bars. But in 196, I met Thornton unexpectedly in a bar. Later, montague followed Thornton to her residence. In a shabby house in a low slum, he saw Thornton and the child. Seeing that the seven portraits he painted for Thornton were pasted on the wall one by one, the truth was finally clear. However, for the sake of family reputation, montague can't divorce, and his love affair with Thornton can only continue in a depressed way.
Charles Sykes, an artist friend in montague, was deeply moved by their tortuous love. At the request of montague, he created a vivid sculpture based on Thornton: a young girl, standing in the wind, letting her skirt fly in the wind, but gently placing her index finger on her lips, which symbolizes the unspeakable secret feelings between Thornton and Montague. This sculpture is named "Whispering". Montague put the first "whisper" on the front of his Rolls-Royce "Silver Ghost" car to implicitly declare his love.
Later, Sikes changed it to the image of hands stretching back like wings, which is today's "flying goddess". The revised "Goddess of Flying" stooped and stood in front of the distinguished Rolls-Royce, holding the skirt with both hands, stretching her arms back, wearing a light gauze and dazzling. The early "flying goddess" were all silver-plated, which attracted thieves to covet. Later, due to the high theft rate, the statues after 1914 were all made of highly polished nickel alloy.
Soon, this unique logo was taken as a fashion by the ignorant upper-class Rolls-Royce owners. On February 6, 1911, the silver-plated "flying goddess" officially flew on the front of the luxurious Rolls-Royce and became the logo of the Rolls-Royce.
In fairy tales, Cinderella and the prince live happily together, but the reality always fails. During World War I, montague was sent to India to inspect the motorized troops. He and Thornton boarded the ship on December 13th, 1915. Later, the ship was hit by a German torpedo. Thornton was buried at the bottom of the sea with the ship, and montague drifted at sea for 36 hours and was finally rescued. He couldn't recover from the grief of losing Thornton. Mr. Rouse decided to soothe his friend's broken heart in a special way. Since 1915, Rolls-Royce has changed the logo of "Flying Goddess" based on Thornton from silver to nickel alloy to represent the unparalleled quality of Rolls-Royce cars and their undying love.