Description
Rolls Royce Part 1: The First Forty Years by Pugh tells the story of the first 40 years of Britain’s most prestigious manufacturer. Peter Pugh begins with the 1904 meeting of Henry Royce and the Honourable C.S. Rolls and the birth in 1906 of the Silver Ghost, a story of genius, skill and dedication that gave the world cars and aero engines of unrivalled excellence.
The first aero engine, the Eagle, followed in 1915 and, with the Hawk, Falcon and Condor, proved itself in the First World War. In the Second World War the Merlin was installed in the Spitfire and built in a race against time in 1940 to help win the Battle of Britain. Pugh had unrivalled access to the company’s archives.
