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Rolls-Royce’s Landspeed Collection celebrates the land-speed records set by British engineer Captain George Eyston in Thunderbolt, powered by two Rolls-Royce R V12 aero engines. Limited to just 35 examples of the Wraith Black Badge and 25 of the Dawn Black Badge, the cars celebrate Eyston’s contribution to motoring and echoes the location of his greatest achievements Rolls-Royce has been associated with world speed records on both land and water for more than a century. While the exploits of Sir Malcolm Campbell are well documented, another British hero who set three land-speed records using Rolls-Royce engines has been largely overlooked. After more than 80 years, Rolls-Royce recalls this hero’s inspiring exploits with the new Wraith and Dawn Black Badge Landspeed Collection retelling the remarkable story of the redoubtable Captain George Eyston and his extraordinary car, Thunderbolt.

Born in 1897, Eyston was fascinated with motorsport from childhood. His degree in engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge was interrupted by the Great War, in which he served with distinction, rising to the rank of captain and winning the Military Cross. He spent the 1920s and 30s developing and driving racing cars. In 1935, he was among the first British racers to travel to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where he set new 24-hour and 48-hour endurance speed records. In 1937, he returned to the Flats to set three world land-speed records with Thunderbolt, which was powered by a pair of Rolls-Royce R supercharged 37-litre, V-12 aero engines, each producing well over 2,000 horsepower. Today, Rolls-Royce’s Landspeed Collection draws inspiration from George Eyston’s remarkable life and record-breaking feats. Both cars in the collection bear strong aesthetic links to the unique, otherworldly landscape of the Bonneville Salt Flats where Thunderbolt made him, albeit briefly, the fastest man on Earth.

The Collection Car duo is presented in a specially created two-tone finish, which marries Black Diamond Metallic with a new bespoke colour, Bonneville Blue. The tiny fissures of the Flats are perfectly reproduced, digitally retraced from the surface itself, in the wooden veneer of fascia and console lids. The interior references continue with Thunderbolt’s unique silhouette, and the records it achieved, depicted on the polished, anodised aluminium surface of the Landspeed Collection’s front tunnel. Dawn Landspeed additionally celebrates George Eyston’s vision with the outline of the Silver Island mountains, which dominate the Bonneville horizon, engraved on the upper ‘waterfall’ between the rear seats. Eyston’s third and final land-speed record of 357.497mph stood for 341 days. In the new Collection Cars, the feat is commemorated - engraved into the housing of the dashboard clock alongside Bonneville. In Wraith Landspeed, the Starlight Headliner perfectly recreates the heavens as they appeared over the Flats on September 16, 1938, the date on which Eyston and Thunderbolt set their final record. The constellations are precisely marked using 2,117 individually placed fibre-optic ‘stars’, the largest number of stars in a Rolls-Royce Wraith Starlight Headliner ever featured.