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	Charles Rolls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Stewart Rolls (August 27, 1877 - July 12, 1910) was, together with Frederick Henry Royce, a co-founder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Rolls (254 words)

	Charles Rolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicknames for Rolls-Royce cars are Rolls, Roller and Double R, although in Derby (where the headquarters of Rolls-Royce plc are located), the firm is universally known as Royce's.
		He was introduced to Charles Stewart Rolls in a Manchester hotel on the May 4 that year, and the pair agreed a deal where Royce would manufacture cars, to be sold exclusively by Rolls.
		The British press, particularly the tabloids, expressed consternation that this symbol of British excellence was being sold to the Germans, and in such an undignified manner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rolls-Royce (1620 words)

	CAPT. ROLLS MEETS DEATH
		Charles Stewart Rolls was 33 years old, and one of the most popular young all-around sportsmen in England.
		Rolls was modest as he was daring, and received the congratulations which were showered upon him almost with embarrassment.
		Rolls was intended for the diplomatic service, but he showed such enthusiasm for science and mechanics that his parents decided it was better to let him become a good scientist than a poor diplomat.
	roynagl.topcities.com /captrolls.htm (819 words)

	Rolls-Royce History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Rolls was born at 35 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London into a wealthy landed family with much property.
		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.
		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)

	Charles Rolls -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	THE HISTORY OF ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	The Classic Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Stewart Rolls was raised in aristocratic privilege, the third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock, they lived at The Hendre, Monmouth in Wales.
		C.S. Rolls and Co. was established in 1902 and Rolls persuaded his friend, Claude Johnson, to resign as Secretary of the Automobile Club, (later to become the present RAC) and join him in his motor business.
		Although Charles Rolls was only involved with Rolls-Royce for six short years, he had brought with him Claude Johnson and also his own name as one of the best-known and popular figures of the day.
	www.theclassictimes.com /english/magazine/motoring/RollsRoyce.asp (794 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 - 1910)
		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 trained as a mechanical engineer at Cambridge, where he developed a passion for engines of all kinds.
		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.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/rolls.html (1800 words)

	Charles Rolls (1877-1910), motoring and aviation pioneer :: Gathering the Jewels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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, Charles Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/R/Rolls/1.html (283 words)

	4Car Feature - Rolls-Royce Centenary - from Channel 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Stewart Rolls (born 1877) was the third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge and raised in a privileged environment.
		Rolls, selling imported cars, was frustrated at what he saw to be a lack of initiative in British engineering and wanted to invest in motor manufacturing in the country.
		Rolls and Royce met in the dining room of Manchester's Midland Hotel, and after a test drive of the vehicles, Rolls agreed to sell every car that Royce could build for him.
	www.channel4.com /4car/feature/retrospective/rolls-royce-centenary/rolls-royce.html (444 words)

	BBC - South East Wales - Hall of Fame - Charles Rolls - Suzanne Donald from Monmouth delves into the life the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Rolls attended Cambridge University and this is where his interest in the fledgling sport of motoring was born.
		Rolls won prizes for his motoring prowess, and was thought by some to be the best driver in the country, breaking records and winning races.
		Rolls was killed in 1910 in Bournemouth when his plane broke up in mid-air.
	ftp.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/halloffame/historical_figures/charles_rolls.shtml (792 words)

	Special Rolls-Royce for 100th birthday - May. 4, 2004
		NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Exactly 100 years ago today, Charles Stewart Rolls, the third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock and owner of one the earliest auto dealerships in Great Britain, met a man named Frederick Henry Royce in a hotel in Manchester, England.
		The color changed in 1930 for purely cosmetic reasons, according to the company's official history, not to mark the passing of Rolls, as it is often thought.
		Rolls had became the first Englishman to die in an airplane crash 20 years earlier at a 1910 air show.
	money.cnn.com /2004/04/30/pf/autos/rolls-royce (671 words)

	Scott's Car Library - Rolls-Royce
		From the very first year Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce started building cars, they were internationally recognized for being engineering masterminds.
		At the turn of the 20th century, Rolls and Royce were building generators in a modest workshop hidden away from the limelight.
		It was such a huge success that he and Rolls could not build them fast enough, seeing as how all of the cars were all built by hand.
	www.geocities.com /b22315/rolls.html (1226 words)

	Blackhawk Auto Exhibition: 1911 Rolls-Royce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rolls-Royce Ltd. was founded in 1904 by Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce.
		Rolls was a pioneer motorist whose firm of C.S. Rolls and Company sold quality French motor cars.
		The Rolls-Royce radiator mascot, “The Spirit of Ecstasy,” was designed by illustrator / sculptor Charles Sykes and debuted in 1911.
	www.blackhawkauto.org /autocollection/profiles/rollsroyce/rr11.html (125 words)

	Rolls Charles Stewart (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	The Hindu : Driving silver legends
		Rolls took a ride in a car that Royce had built and was so impressed he ordered 19 of them rightaway.
		Rolls had indeed been looking for a manufacturer who made the "best cars in the world" and in Henry Royce had found just the person for the job.
		Appalled that some owners were affixing their own inappropriate mascots (such as golliwogs and policemen) to his magnificent vehicles, Royce commissioned an artist and sculptor by the name of Charles Sykes to produce a suitable emblem.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/11/25/stories/13251101.htm (1140 words)

	Ritchie, Charles Stewart Almon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A Protestant who had little in common with his Irish Catholic fellow countrymen, Charles Stewart Parnell led the Irish members of the British House of Commons in the fight for Irish self-government.
		A beloved U.S. motion picture actor, James Stewart is remembered for his portrayals of shy but morally determined characters who overcome difficult circumstances to become heroes.
		British author Mary Stewart is best known for her update of Arthurian legend in a popular trilogy of novels about the magician Merlin.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9112277 (690 words)

	Ultimatecarpage.com forums - 100 years since Mr Rolls met Mr Royce
		2 days ago it was 100 hundred years since Hon Charles Stewart Rolls met Frederick Henry Royce from which Rolls-Royce Ltd was formed....they met in the midland hotel in manchester where there is a plaque.
		Rolls, who said it was his ambition to have a motor car
		Charles Rolls himself wrote of the famous meeting in these terms
	www.ultimatecarpage.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3702 (663 words)

	Hulme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, those that were already built continued to be lived in and many were still in use in the 20th century
		In 1904 Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls met and decided to start to build cars - and chose Hulme for their first Rolls-Royce factory though moving to Derby shortly afterwards.
		By the start of the 1960's England had begun to remove many of the 19th century slums and consequently most of Hulme was demolished.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hulme (767 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		Charles Stewart Rolls, English motor car manufacturer and aviator, 1908.
		Charles Stewart Rolls, English aviator and automobile manufacturer, c 1900.
		C S Rolls (centre) with two college friends posing for a portrait, c 1895.
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?txtkeys1=Roll (176 words)

	Rolls-Royce and Its Aircraft Engines
		Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company in Detroit, Michigan, during World War II.
		The rich man, Charles Stuart Rolls, was the son of the wealthy Lord Llangattock.
		A smaller bypass engine, the Rolls Royce Spey, also was built under license in the United States.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Rolls-Royce/Aero54.htm (1666 words)

	Collection Highlights
		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)

	1910
		r Rolls, the son of Lord and lady Llangattock, was well known on the Isle of Sheppey where many of his early flying experiments were carried out.
		His death at the age of 33 is a great tragedy, for Mr Rolls was one of the country's most distinguished aviators.
		he death of Charles Rolls is a particular blow for the Short brothers who have just moved their factory to the new location at Eastchurch and are now producing experimental pusher biplanes of the French Farman type.
	www.whitstablescene.co.uk /1910.htm (996 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		C S Rolls standing in a doorway wearing a bowler hat and suit, c 1902.
		C S Rolls looking at the engine of a motor car in his garage, c 1900.
		C S Rolls sitting at his desk talking on the telephone, c 1900.
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?X9=Rolls,+Charles+Stewart (174 words)

	Search Results for roll - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The term roll film is usually reserved for film wound up on a spool with an interleaving light-tight backing paper to protect the wound-up film.
		An enormous increase in the use of the roll-on, roll-off technique of loading and unloading developed in the late 1960s.
		Roll-on/roll-off ships, designed for the carriage of wheeled cargo, are always distinguished by large doors in the hull and often by external ramps that fold down to allow rolling between pier and...
	www.britannica.com /search?ref=B04201&query=roll&submit=Find (544 words)

	Rolls-Royce/Bentley Featured European Marque for 2004 at Palo Alto Concours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Rolls was born in 1877 to a wealthy family living in London.
		He even built his own car prior to 1904, when Charles Stewart Rolls was introduced to Fredrick Henry Royce.
		They are all driven to shows and on tours whether they are 10 years old or 80 years old.
	www.paconcours.com /Updates/Rolls_Royce.html (439 words)

	Charles Rolls ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Charles Rolls, The Widow of E.M.S., 19th century
		Charles Hobson, Illustration for the first story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson (San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996
		Culled from thousands of film rolls on an array of subjects, photographs reveal his roots as a photojournalist trained to extensively docum...
	www.wwar.com /masters/r/rolls-charles.html (1048 words)

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