How Charles Rolls Helped Found a British Icon!
Famous for being one half of Rolls-Royce, an icon of British industry that survives to this day, Charles Rolls wasn't just a co-founder of a motor giant that eventually dabbled in aviation, he was a pioneer of aviation who paid the ultimate price.
The twelfth person to die in the pursuit of furthering aviation, and the first Briton. A car salesman who amassed a large fortune, Charles provided Henry Royce with the money needed to found Rolls-Royce, initially as a luxury car manufacturer.
Since then, the company that bears his name has gone to become not only an icon, but has also gotten into the aircraft engine manufacturing business, whilst Charles Rolls has gone down in the history books as a pioneer of British aviation.
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