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Why Not? The Story Of The Honourable Charles Stewart Rolls

Charles Rolls was the first Englishman to be killed in an air crash. Today he is most famous for the partnership he forged with Henry Royce to form Rolls-Royce, a name that today is as synonymous with excellence as it was then. Yet Rolls was a national hero long before he met Royce in Manchester in 1904. This biography quotes extensively from the writings of Charles Rolls himself and from contemporary accounts of the events during those pioneer days of motoring and aviation.


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Charles Rolls was the first Englishman to be killed in an air crash. Today he is most famous for the partnership he forged with Henry Royce to form Rolls-Royce, a name that today is as synonymous with excellence as it was then. Yet Rolls was a national hero long before he met Royce in Manchester in 1904. This biography quotes extensively from the writings of Charles Rolls himself and from contemporary accounts of the events during those pioneer days of motoring and aviation.


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Rolls Royce

2007

Hardbound with box set
308
23×29
English
300
English cars
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