Rolls Royce have often been used in popular culture as a stereotypical signifier of wealthy people, particularly millionaires. Examples include the one driven by the eccentric millionaire in the film City Lights (1931), starring Charlie Chaplin, and the titular 'star' of The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964). The many rich fictional villains to drive Rolls-Royces include One Hundred and One Dalmatians' Cruella de Vil (she careers around dangerously in a long, red 'Roller') and Auric Goldfinger (who smuggles gold by replacing the vehicle's bodywork). Less notoriously, Lady Penelope is chauffeured around in FAB1, a futuristic pink Rolls in all versions of Thunderbirds.
Rolls-Royce Motors was created from the demerger of the Rolls-Royce car business from Rolls-Royce Limited in 1973. Rolls-Royce Limited had been nationalised in 1971 due to the financial collapse of the company caused in part by the development of the RB211 jet engine. In 1973 the British government sold the Rolls-Royce car business to allow Rolls-Royce Limited to concentrate on jet engine manufacture.
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