CS Rolls in a racing car election Interior of Charterhouse Chapel

Interior of Charterhouse Chapel

View of a chapel on York Road

At the top is a group of hafted weapons and shields and on both sides several plate chanfrons for the protection of horses faces and heads

Around them figures comment on the lack of attending crowds

CS Rolls in a racing car election Interior of Charterhouse ChapelCS 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.