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	The Pioneers : An Anthology : The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 - 1910)
		Charles Rolls was born at 35 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London into a wealthy landed family with much property.
		Rolls went to the New York Motor Show to exhibit Rolls-Royce cars in 1906 and also attended an exhibition organised by the Aero Club of America and was introduced to the Wright Brothers.
		Rolls was buried at St. Cadoc's Church 16 July 1910.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/rolls.html (1800 words)

	Charles Rolls - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was born in Berkeley Square, London but retained a strong family connection with his ancestral home of Hendre, Monmouth, Wales.
		Rolls was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and from his youth was interested in engines.
		Rolls was also a pioneer aviator and was the second person in Britain to be licensed to fly by the Royal Aero Club.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /charles_rolls.htm (287 words)

	ROLLS ROYCE LIMOUSINE 1934 Wedding Car Hire Classic Cars Honeymoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His father, John Allan Rolls, was a Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of the County and later became Baron Llangattoch of the Hendre in August l892.
		Charles Rolls soon earned the nicknames of "Dirty Rolls" and "Petrolls" because of his ‘hands on’ approach.
		Sadly in 1910 Rolls was to die because of his association with flight and he was the first Briton to die in an aviation accident.
	www.aa-executive-wedding-cars.co.uk /cars/1934rollroyce.htm (374 words)

	Charles Rolls -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Stewart Rolls (August 27, 1877 - July 12, 1910) was, together with (Click link for more info and facts about Frederick Henry Royce) Frederick Henry Royce, a co-founder of the (Click link for more info and facts about Rolls-Royce) Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm.
		Rolls was educated at (A public school for boys founded in 1440; located in Berkshire) Eton College and (Click link for more info and facts about Trinity College, Cambridge) Trinity College, Cambridge, and from his youth was interested in engines.
		Rolls was also a pioneer aviator and was the second person in Britain to be licensed to fly by the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Aero Club) Royal Aero Club.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ch/Charles_Rolls.htm (278 words)

	Monmouthshire Council - Latest News - Charles Rolls exhibition to mark centenary of Rolls - Royce
		Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce first met in May 1904, and this exhibition has been arranged to commemorate that meeting, which led rapidly to the production of Rolls-Royce motor cars and the founding of the company.
		But Rolls was a visionary with a firm grasp of the exciting mechanical innovations which were opening the way to a revolution in transport as the 19th century gave way to the 20th.
		Charles Rolls pushed his enthusiasms to the limit, catching the public imagination as he demonstrated the rapidly increasing power and reliability of cars and early aeroplanes.
	www.monmouthshire.gov.uk /Monmouth/Welsh/NewsPages/Latest+News/Rolls_Exhibition.htm (360 words)

	The Flight of the Angels - Intertextuality in Four Novels by Boris Vian by Alistair Charles Rolls
		Rolls is at pains to point out that his thesis does not question Vian's originality, but instead places Vian in a literary tradition in which authors acknowledge and utilises the discoveries of their predecessors and contemporaries in order to extend the boundaries of their art
		Rolls argues that Vian draws substantial ideas, characters, themes, characters and even action from his favourite French authors and others who he would have read in English either in his work as a translator or for his own pleasure.
		Rolls prefers to see the novel as primarily a vehicle for the reappearance of other characters in the four novels towards a resolution informed by Vian's literary interests and explorations.
	www.toadshow.com.au /rob/vian/trans/vian_rolls.htm (2027 words)

	THE HISTORY OF ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce came from very different backgrounds, they had very different educations and, until shortly before they met, their careers were going in very different directions.
		Rolls was born into the aristocracy, being the third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock.
		Rolls tried the car and became a wholehearted enthusiast and he said afterwards that Royce 'was the man I have been looking for years'.
	www.transcoinc.net /founders.htm (5584 words)

	Charles Rolls of Monmouthshire, co-founder of the world famous Rolls-Royce company
		It may have been luck more than judgment but while most of his playboy peers were wasting their privileges, Charles Rolls' interest in the emerging transport technologies would make his name a byword for excellence.
		Rolls, from Monmouthshire graduated from Cambridge with a degree in engineering while Queen Victoria was still on the throne.
		Rolls knew what he wanted, what the market wanted and Royce knew how to give it to him.
	www.famouswelsh.com /07_adventurers/profiles/Charles_Rolls.shtml (384 words)

	Charles Rolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rolls was also a pioneer aviator, and the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
		Carsurvey.org: Rolls Royce Advice and opinions regarding Rolls Royce vehicles written by owners and consumers.
		Charles L. McNary, honored United States Senator of Oregon, candidate for Vice President in 1940 on the Republican ticket with Wendel Wilkie.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Charles_Rolls.html (485 words)

	Charles Rolls
		Charles Stewart Rolls, was thirty-three years old and was one of the most popular young all-around sportsmen in england.
		Charles Rolls was born in London, August 27, 1877.
		Charles Rolls was killed in an accident in 1910.
	www.earlyaviators.com /erolls.htm (972 words)

	Rolls-Royce History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the time Rolls was born F. Royce was resident in the Old Kent Road, London and may well have been a tenant of the Rolls' Estates and as he was a Post Office messenger until September 1877 when he was apprenticed to the Great Northern Railway, quite possibly delivered congratulatory telegrams to Mrs.
		His father was successfully competing with Rolls in the 12 HP Panhard and in a Daimler in the 1900 1,000 miles trial.
		Charles Sykes was the principle illustrator for The Car Illustrated and rode with Lord Montagu in “Dragonfly” during the 10th anniversary run of the 1,000 miles trial.
	www.bentleyboys.com /rolls-royce_history.htm (3438 words)

	Rolls-Royce and Its Aircraft Engines
		Charles Stewart Rolls poses at the controls of his French-built Wright Flyer.
		Rolls made a roundtrip flight between Dover, England and Sangatte, France, on June 2, 1910.
		The rich man, Charles Stuart Rolls, was the son of the wealthy Lord Llangattock.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Rolls-Royce/Aero54.htm (1666 words)

	Rolls, Charles Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The son of a wealthy British peer, Rolls might have led a carefree life often associated with the young Edwardian aristocracy.
		Rolls went to Cambridge University where he earned a BA, and later MA in engineering.
		Rolls continued to fly balloons when he wasn't demonstrating his soon-to-be-famous products.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/R/Rolls/1.html (283 words)

	Charles Rolls (1877-1910), motoring and aviation pioneer :: Gathering the Jewels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910) was a pioneering motorist and aviator.
		Although Rolls was born in London he retained a strong family connection with his ancestral home of Monmouth.
		The Rolls Memorial statue, designed by Sir William Goscombe John, was unveiled by Lord Raglan at Agincourt Square, Monmouth, on 19 October 1911.
	www.gtj.org.uk /en/item10/29537 (336 words)

	Rolls-Royce Owners Club Founders
		Charles Rolls was hugely impressed by the precision he found in Mr.
		Their first stop was France, where a pioneering Royce went on show at the Paris Salon in early December, 1904.
		It was a sensation and, two days before Christmas, an historic agreement was signed for Messrs C. Rolls and Co. to have exclusive rights to sell Royce cars in Britain, on the understanding that they should henceforth be known by a new name - Rolls-Royce.
	www.rroc.org /page.asp?SID=1&Page=35 (349 words)

	Petersen Automotive Museum
		The aristocratic Charles S. Rolls was born in 1877 and was a noted adventurer.
		Rolls arranged to take Royce’s car back to London where he showed it to his business partner, Claude Johnson.
		Unfortunately for Rolls, an aviation fan, he would never see the success of the venture, dying in a flying accident in 1910.
	www.petersen.org /default.cfm?docid=1022 (789 words)

	Rolls Charles Stewart (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Rolls, né à Londres en 1877, était le troisième enfant de Lord Llangattock ; il fut l'un des fondateurs de la firme Rolls Royce et l'une des personnalités les plus marquantes de l'automobile naissante en Angleterre.
		Rolls was born into the aristocracy, being the third son of Lord and
		Unfortunately, Rolls was only to enjoy the success of the company which bore his name for a few more years because on 12th July 1910 he tragically met his death in a flying accident at Bournemouth.
	www.histomobile.com /histomob/prespil.asp?meteo=141&lan=1 (1537 words)

	Manchester Engineers and Inventors included Francis Egerton, James Brindley, Tom Kilburn, Charles Rolls and Frederick ...
		During that year he met Charles Stewart Rolls, an able businessman, entrepreneur and marketeer - it was to be he who would handle the business and financial side of what became a world famous team, and the new marque of "Rolls-Royce" had come into being.
		Rolls was from an aristocratic background, Eton and Cambridge educated, but he had a degree in mechanics and applied science, and was quick to see the potential of Royce's cars.
		Born in 1893 at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth, (then in the County of Lancashire), Roy Chadwick was the son Charles Chadwick, a mechanical engineer, (the fourth generation of mechanical engineers in the Chadwick family).
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/engineers2.html (2566 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 - 1910)
		Their defiance led to a new speed limit which at 12 mph (19.3 km/hr) was 200% faster than had previously been allowed.
		Rolls, a son of Lord Llangattock, on June 2nd, 1910, he flew across the English Channel to France, until he was duly observed over French territory, when he returned to England without alighting.
		Rolls had been looking for a quality British make to sell and the new Royce seemed to meet his requirements.
	www.ctie.monash.edu /hargrave/rolls.html (1800 words)

	1931 ROLLS ROYCE LIMOUSINE Wedding Car Hire Classic Cars Honeymoon
		This stunning Rolls Royce Limousine is the perfect wedding car, it features five seats and is blue and fl in colour, this is very much an original classic car for hire.
		Features such as the huge headlights, large interior and easy access with running boards make this a memorable car for your wedding and is also a great addition to wedding picture and albums.
		Rolls Royce Limousine as your wedding car on that special day.
	www.aa-executive-wedding-cars.co.uk /cars/1931rrlimo.htm (346 words)

	Charles Rolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rolls was also a pioneer aviator and the second person in Britain to be to fly by the Royal Aero Club.
		He was the first man to a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
		We loved this book, my wife read it and passed it on to me. We're buying copies for both of our mothers for Mother's Day becasue it is such a terrific mother daughter granddaughter story.
	www.freeglossary.com /Charles_Stewart_Rolls (453 words)

	THE ROLLS ROYCE MERLIN ENGINE - THE BLUEBIRD LAND SPEED PROJECT
		Charles S Rolls was the co-founder of the Rolls-Royce company.
		In 1910, Rolls made the world's first there-and-back flight across the Channel, without landing, a monumental feat in its day.
		Rolls Royce plc, by far the most significant in economic terms, is a British engineering firm these days specializing in turbine-based products, particularly aero engines, but providing a wide range of civil and military engineering products and services.
	www.bluebird-electric.net /charles_rolls.htm (558 words)

	The Big Picture: TNT rolls out Charles Barkley's newest riff
		You just know that Barkley will have the comedian rolling, the audience howling and the senior producer in the booth shaking his head in further disbelief.
		He has the distinction of being the personal producer, chaperone and off-air foil for what he calls "the rolling party that is the Chuckster." Three, three, three jobs in one.
		Charles has a lot of friends in the entertainment business.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports/columnists/20021031thebig5.asp (809 words)

	Charles Rolls at the wheel of his Panhard with the Duke of York, 1900 :: Gathering the Jewels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the royal visitors were in official mourning for the death of Prince Christian Victor, and their social activities were subdued, the Duke and Duchess were taken on motor car excursions by Charles Rolls, probably the first time that the royal couple had been in a car.
		The Rolls family had become more and more successful during the nineteenth century, and their wealth was based on land and property in south London and the Hendre Estate in Monmouthshire.
		Charles Rolls was intent on developing a dependable British car and went on to form a partnership with Henry Royce in order to fulfil his dream.
	www.gtj.org.uk /en/item1/5803 (428 words)

	Charles Rolls - netlexikon
		Rolls wurde in London als Sohn des 1.
		Rolls war auch ein Flugpionier und erhielt als zweiter Mensch in Großbritannien vom Royal Aero Club eine Fluglizenz.
		Im gleichen Jahr kam Rolls bei einem Flugunfall über Bournemouth um Lebens, als der hintere Teil seines von den Gebrüdern Wright gebauten Flugzeugs abbrach.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Charles-Stewart-Rolls.html (175 words)

	Rolls-Royce marks 100 years of setting the standard for luxury - 1/29/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On that date in 1904, with the assistance of Cambridge Auto Club founding member Charles Johnson, adventurer and entrepreneur Charles Rolls met engineer Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
		Rolls had a car business and he was looking for a three cylinder car to sell,” said Dr. Les Lifton, a board member of the Rolls-Royce Foundation based in Mechanicsburg, Pa. “Mr.
		In 1906, Rolls won the Isle of Man race in a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost averaging 39 miles per hour, but reaching 70 mph at times.
	www.detnews.com /2004/autosinsider/0401/29/b01-49259.htm (994 words)

	The Isle of Man TT Website - Rolls-Royce TT Rally (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The downpour meant umbrellas were the order of the day as Lieutenant Governor Air Marshal Ian Macfadyen flagged off the early starters before taking a seat in one of the cars for the event, which marked 95 years since Charles Rolls' victory in the 1906 TT for cars.
		Around 40 Rolls owners came to the Island from the UK to take part and were joined by 10 local Rolls enthusiasts.
		Perhaps the two most prestigious cars on show were a 1905 Rolls similar to the one Charles Rolls drove to victory and a Silver Ghost owned by Rolls Royce and insured for a cool £15 million.
	www.ttwebsite.com /features/0309.php (380 words)

	Charles Rolls - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Rolls - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		The article about Charles Rolls contains information related to Charles Rolls.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Charles_Rolls (272 words)

	Collection Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Less than five months before his death in a French-built Wright machine, Charles Stewart Rolls, the British founder of the Rolls-Royce Motor Company, wrote to Wilbur Wright complaining about the quality of the Wright flyer that he had purchased in Europe.
		Will it have tail and wheels?" Charles Rolls died July 12, 1910, when the tail of his French-built Wright machine snapped off before a grandstand filled with horrified spectators at Bournemouth, England.
		In 1927, when Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, he became an American aviation hero and an international celebrity.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthigh8.html (479 words)

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