Whilst looking at this car, I was explaining to T the origin of the red badge to black badge change - the Company did it to mark the death of Henry Royce. Then, the man standing next to me asked me if I wanted to know the truth - an offer I couldn't refuse - so he revelaed to us that the badge was changed from red to black not, as popularly believed to commemorate Henry Royce's death, but because Royce himself decided black was aesthetically more appropriate. I checked this out later and it seems he was right, I'd got it wrong for 40 years or more.