Steel Chariots in the Desert book by SC Rolls

SC Rolls

Published by Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club, London,?1988

About this Item

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1988 copy. Pages in good condition. Some light marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> It would be hard to find two men born with the same surname so totally different in circumstance as S.C. Rolls the author of this book, and the Hon. C.S. Rolls of Rolls-Royce fame. The former a lowly-born tough little artisan motor mechanic; the latter the inspired young aristocrat with a passion for motor cars and a Cambridge University engineering degree - who joined F.H. Royce to establish Rolls-Royce in 1904. Sam died, well into his nineties, in a Northampton nursing home, whilst Charles crashed to his death the first Englishman to be killed in a flying accident - in 1910, when only thirty-three. Both achieved lasting fame from their very special relationship with the immortal Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost motor car, which by 1914 had achieved world acclaim and had justly acquired an unsurpassable reputation and the soubriquet 'The Best Car in the World'. Sam Rolls was one of that generation of noble and passionate young patriots who thronged to the recruiting offic. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM390-G-9178

Bibliographic Details

Title: Steel Chariots in the Desert book by SC Rolls

Publisher: Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club, London,?1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good