Rolls100 - Commemorating 100 years of the death of Rt. Hon. Charles S. Rolls » Engines http://www.rolls100.com Charles S Rolls Centenary 1910 - 2010 Fri, 14 May 2010 10:41:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Charles Rolls, the Engineer http://www.rolls100.com/2009/06/a-new-post/ http://www.rolls100.com/2009/06/a-new-post/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:58:52 +0000 admin http://www.rolls100.com/?p=3 Charles RollsFor those who think that Rolls was simply the front-man to Royce’s practical-hands-on knowledge, they would be quite wrong. Rolls attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Mechanical and Applied Science and because of his fascination with engines, he was nicknamed Dirty Rolls.

When he was eighteen in 1896, he went to Paris to purchase his first car, a Peugeot Phaeton, and at the same time he joined the Automobile Club of France.

It is thought that his Peugeot was the first car based in Cambridge, and one of the first three cars owned in Wales. Rolls was a founding member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain.

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