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Sir Henry Royce : establishing Rolls-Royce, from motor cars to aero engines
- Title
- Sir Henry Royce : establishing Rolls-Royce, from motor cars to aero engines / Peter Reese.
- Author
- Reese, Peter
- Publication
- Cheltenham : History Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 255 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
- Summary
- Henry Royce was born in 1863 in most modest circumstances when the internal combustion engine was yet to be invented and 40 years were to pass before mans' first powered flight. Despite having just two years' formal education, supplemented at 14 by three years' apprenticeship at the Great Northern Railway Works before being curtailed by lack of funds, in 1881 he succeeded in finding work in the infant electronic industry. By 1884 this brilliant, committed man had branched out on his own, with just GBP20 capital. From there on, his ferocious work schedules and unbending urge for perfection led to the establishment of Rolls-Royce and the design of superlative cars, followed by aero engines, which would be the finest of their kind in two world wars and set a gold-standard for future aspirants.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part 1. Emergent engineer -- Early struggles -- Royce and Claremont -- branching out -- Royce and his motor car -- Part 2. Of wheels and wings -- Rolls and Royce -- Johnson, Royce and the Silver Ghost -- The Silver Ghost in peace and war -- Royce's move to aero engines -- Part 3. Post-war challenges -- The 1920s: automobiles versus aero engines -- Royce's aero engine and the Schneider Trophy Contest of 1929 -- Part 3. Master designer -- Automobiles -- preserving the marque -- Winning the Schneider Trophy Contest of 1931 -- Royce: the man and his achievements.
- ISBN
- 0750999004
- 9780750999007
- 9781803990811 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1273671974
- 1273671974
- SCSB-14324925
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library