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Charles Rolls
Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in Bournemouth. He was aged 32.
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business · British motoring and aviation pioneer (1877–1910) · entrepreneur · engineer · sport cyclist · balloonist · car designer · aircraft pilot · also Charles Rolls, Charles Stewart Rolls, Rolls
Born 27 August 1877 · Died 12 July 1910 · Q313074
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Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C.S. Rolls, Acervo do Museu Paulista da USP
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In the bottom playing field of St Peter's Catholic School, Bournemouth, which was developed on the site of Hengistbury Airfield
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1910· 2 entries
Died 1910-07-12.
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At the time of his crash at Southbourne, Hampshire [as it was at the time] when the tail came off of his Wright Flyer during a flying display on the airfield at what is now St Peters School
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1907· 1 entry
Rolls-Royce Limited bought out C
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1906· 1 entry
Rolls and Royce formalised their partnership by creating Rolls-Royce Limited, with Rolls appointed Technical Managing Director on a salary of £750 per annum plus 4% of the profits in excess of £10,000
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1903· 1 entry
Won the Gordon Bennett Gold Medal for the longest single flight time
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1901· 1 entry
With Frank Hedges Butler that later became the Royal Aero Club
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1898· 2 entries
Studied at Trinity College, Bachelor of Arts (1895–1898).
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And began working on the steam yacht Santa Maria followed by a position at the London and North Western Railway in Crewe
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1896· 2 entries
At the age of 18, he travelled to Paris to buy his first car, a Peugeot Phaeton, and joined the Automobile Club of France
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Won a Half Blue and the following year became captain of the Cambridge University Bicycle Club
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1894· 2 entries
Studied at Eton College (1891–1894).
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Attended a private crammer in Cambridge which helped him gain entry to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1895, where he studied mechanical and applied science
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1877· 1 entry
Born 1877-08-27.
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