Charles Rolls on the way to winning the Isle of Man TT race in a 20 hp Rolls-Royce Product:Greetings card Exterior view from Basinghall Street

Exterior view from Basinghall Street of the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Museum

The proposed Greenwich and Gravesend rail road

Tuesday 18th June 1963

seen through the archway of Blackwell Hall in Cateaton Street

Charles Rolls on the way to winning the Isle of Man TT race in a 20 hp Rolls-Royce Product:Greetings card Exterior view from Basinghall StreetCharles 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.