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Founder
Charles Stewart Rolls was a british motorist, aviator, and automobile manufacturer who was one of the founders of the Rolls-Royce Ltd. Automobile company with Henry Royce. Charles Rolls died in a flying accident, the first British pilot to do so.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design.
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variant spelling:
Rolls, Charles Stewart
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Curriculum vitae
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* 27.08.1877
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London
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born
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1894
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Cambridge
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He entered at Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied mechanical and applied science
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1903
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Fulham
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he started one of Britain's first car dealerships C.S.Rolls & Co. based in Fulham
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04.05.1904
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Manchester
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he met Henry Royce at Midland Hotel, Manchester
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1906
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he and Henry Royce founded Rolls-Royce Ltd. Royce & Co.
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* 1910
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He is the first aviator to fly across the English Channel and back nonstop
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† 12.07.1910
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Bournemouth
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died
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