Rolls100 – Commemorating 100 years of the death of Rt. Hon. Charles S. Rolls

Rolls went to the USA in 1906 to exhibit the Rolls-Royce cars at the New York Motor Show.  While he was there attended an exhibition organised by the Aero Club of America. and was introduced to the Wright brothers by Patrick Alexander who was a member of the Aero Club.  Orville and Wilbur were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world’s first successful aeroplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. When Rolls met them the brothers were still unwilling to give public demonstrations of their machines, so he was unable to witness what they did first hand; however, he was considerably impressed by what others, who had witnessed the brothers fly, could tell him.

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