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About 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.
Everything about Charles Rolls →- Occupation
- entrepreneur, engineer, sport cyclist, balloonist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- August 27, 1877
- Died
- July 12, 1910