Title
CS Rolls in a racing car, c1905-c1910. Artist: Unknown
Caption
CS Rolls in a racing car, c1905-c1910. Rolls set up business selling French and Belgian cars before going into partnership with Henry Royce, forming the motor car and engine manufacturing company Rolls-Royce in 1904. The same year Rolls crossed the English Channel by balloon, and in June 1910 made the first non-stop double crossing by aeroplane. The following month he was killed in a plane crash.
Beaulieu (England), National Motor Museum
Date
1905
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/National Motor Museum
Reference
HRM19A86_394
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
53,8Mb (1,1Mb) / 16,6in x 12,6in / 4968 x 3788 (300dpi)