Lord Montagu of Beaulieu asked Charles Skyes, a famous sculptor to create a mascot that would embody “speed with silence, absence of vibration, the mysterious harnessing of great energy and a beautiful living organism of superb grace. And thus in 1911 the Spirit of Ecstasy was born, which later adorned the bonnet of the Rolls Royce in the 1920s… @5anket . . . .