Rolls, Charles Stewart
British automobile manufacturer and aviator
born Aug. 28, 1877, London, Eng.
died July 12, 1910, Bournemouth, Hampshire
British motorist, aviator, and automobile manufacturer who was one of the founders of the Rolls-Royce Ltd. automobile company. He was the first aviator to fly across the English Channel and back nonstop (June 1910).Rolls drove a 12-horsepower Panhard car in the Thousand Miles Trial of 1900 and took part in many of the early long-distance European classic races. In 1902 he became a motor dealer and in 1906 merged his firm with that of Sir Henry Royce (Royce, Sir Henry, Baronet) to form Rolls-Royce Ltd. Rolls died in a flying accident, the first British pilot to do so.
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