CS Rolls in a racing car election just visible over the buildings

just visible over the buildings to the right

'Point Sikree Gully

Interior of Charterhouse Chapel

Around them figures comment on the lack of attending crowds

13th May 1954

CS Rolls in a racing car election just visible over the buildingsCS Rolls in a racing car, c1905 c1910. 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.