"Baber K. Khan" (beekay) 01/22/2014 at 17:03 • Filed to: None

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I don't know how much this story is true but the sub-continent's people believe it like anything.

—-The Story—-

One day during his visit to London, King Jai Singh was walking in casual dress in Bond Street. He saw a Rolls Royce showroom and went inside to inquire about the Price and Features etc of their cars.

Considering him a just another Poor Indian citizen, showroom salesmen insulted him and almost showed him the way out of the showroom. After this insult, King Jai Singh came back to his Hotel room and asked his servants to call the showroom that King of Alwar city is interested in purchasing their few Cars.

After few hours King reached the Rolls Royce showroom again but with his full astonishing royal manner and in his royal costume. Until he reached the showroom there was already red carpet on the floor and all the salesmen were bent with respect. The King purchased all the six cars that they had at showroom at that time and paid full amount with delivery costs.

After reaching India, King ordered municipal department to use all those six Rolls Royce cars for cleaning and transporting city's waste. World's number one Rolls Royce cars were being used for transportation of City's waste, the news spread all over the world rapidly and the reputation of Rolls Royce Company was in drains.

Whenever someone used to boast in Europe or America that he owned a Rolls Royce, people used to laugh saying, "which one? The same that is used in India for carrying the waste of the City?"

Due to such reputation damages, sales of Rolls Royce dropped rapidly and revenue of company owners started falling down. Then they sent a Telegram to the king in India for apologies and requested to stop transportation of waste in Rolls Royce cars. Not only this but they also offered Six new cars to king free of cost.

When King Jai Singh observed that Rolls Royce has learnt a lesson and they are sorry for their mistakes, king stopped using those cars for carrying wastes.

Roberto G. > Baber K. Khan 01/22/2014 at 17:10

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If this is a Rolls Royce, I am the goddess Kali.

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > Baber K. Khan 01/22/2014 at 17:11

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That's a Ford.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Roberto G. 01/22/2014 at 17:14

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It is significantly more likely that you are the goddess Kali than that is a Rolls Royce.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Goshen, formerly Darkcode 01/22/2014 at 17:15

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Yep. Probably ~'33.

desertdog5051 > Baber K. Khan 01/22/2014 at 17:19

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Great story.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Baber K. Khan 01/22/2014 at 17:22

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Haven't found a proof of the story yet, but did find another circulating that a Rolls-Royce was bought for use as a taxi: other details of the story very similar. While there was a Rolls-Royce bought and used as a taxi...

...the truth is slightly more mundane. A Buick dealer purportedly felt slighted by a remark by a peer selling RR, and bought it to press into service to annoy him.

Roberto G. > desertdog5051 01/22/2014 at 17:24

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I strongly doubt that Rolls Royce was scared just for one minute, because some Indian nutcase trashed four of their cars...

desertdog5051 > Roberto G. 01/22/2014 at 17:28

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But is was a great story. And I put the emphasis on story.

Baber K. Khan > Roberto G. 01/22/2014 at 17:33

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Yeah, you'll find a lot of such bullshit stories circulating in the sub-continent, I don't know why they do but it just makes them have pride in their heritage.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Baber K. Khan 01/22/2014 at 17:35

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It appears from what I've found to be an urban legend (impossible to confirm, but I've found no evidence it was ever true) original to India, and was published at least as long ago as 2000 in a work by (?) Mayaram. The first instances of it on the English-speaking internet I found were ~2009, with it spreading from there, usually with copy-pasted text (implying very limited points of origin) but embellished increasingly by the number of Rolls-Royces involved...

In short, likely only something the subcontinent wishes were true.

Baber K. Khan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/23/2014 at 05:27

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Yeah, you'll find a lot of such bullshit stories circulating in the sub-continent, I don't know why they do but it just makes them have pride in their heritage.

abhinav banerjee > Baber K. Khan 05/02/2014 at 06:50

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Well mate. I trust the Telegraph. If the Telegraph says it happened, it must have happened. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4193893/…