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0508144 - Charles Rolls on the way to winning the Isle of Man TT race in a 20 hp Rolls-Royce, 1906. 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. Charles Rolls on the way to winning the Isle of Man TT race
Credit: National Motor Museum / HIP / TopFoto
National Motor Museum /HIP
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