Charles Rolls, the Engineer
Submitted by admin on Saturday, June 6, 2009
For 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.
