Seeking the origin of Chrysler logo, I heard that there is a sad love story?

It is said that the classic logo of "Flying Goddess" on Rolls-Royce car body represents a real but unknown sad love.

As we all know, the three-dimensional symbol of the royal British car "Rolls Royce" is a silver flashing "flying goddess" statue. This statue of "Goddess of Flying" was designed by designer Charles Sykes according to the female secretary of his friend John montague. This is a love story between Cinderella and the prince. Eleanor Thornton is a wicked girl, who was abandoned by her father when she was young and lived with her mother who made a living by shining shoes. In order to support the family and treat her mother who is seriously ill in bed, she can only go to a nightclub as a social butterfly.

1902 One day, Thornton met her prince charming, John montague, and their love was connected by seven sketches drawn by montague when she danced for her.

Although they fell in love, their disparity in status was doomed to be blessed 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 left silently, and montague finally stopped believing in faithful love and began to lead a dissolute life, and married a noble lady.

Montague's unhappy marriage kept him in bars all day. But on 1906, I met Thornton unexpectedly in a bar. Later, montague followed Thornton to her residence. In a shabby house in a low slum, he met Thornton and the child. Seeing the seven portraits he painted for Thornton pasted on the wall one by one, the truth finally came out. But for the sake of family reputation, montague can't divorce, and his love affair with Thornton can only be repressed.

Charles Sykes is an artist friend in montague. He was deeply moved by their tortuous love. At the request of montague, he created a lifelike sculpture based on Thornton: a young girl, standing in the wind, letting her skirt fly in the wind, gently putting her index finger on her lips, symbolizing the unspeakable secret feelings between Thornton and Montague. This sculpture is named "Whispering". Montague posted the first "whisper" in front of his Rolls-Royce "Silver Ghost" car, implicitly expressing his confession.

Later, Sikes changed it into the image of hands stretching backwards like wings, which is today's "flying goddess". After the revision, the "flying goddess" bent down and stood in front of the noble Rolls-Royce, holding the skirt in her hands, stretching her arms backwards, wearing a fine gauze and dazzling. The early "flying goddesses" were all silver-plated, which attracted thieves to covet. Later, due to the high theft rate, the statues after 19 14 were all made of highly polished nickel alloy.

Soon, this unique logo was regarded as a fashion by Rolls-Royce owners in the upper class. 1911On February 6th, the silver-plated "flying goddess" officially flew on the luxurious front of Rolls-Royce and became the symbol of 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 at19151213. Later, the ship was hit by a German torpedo, and Thornton was buried with the ship at the bottom of the sea, while 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. Starting from 19 15, Rolls-Royce will change the "flying goddess" logo based on Thornton from silver to nickel alloy to represent the unparalleled quality of Rolls-Royce cars and their eternal love.