Название: Sir Henry Royce: Establishing Rolls-Royce, from Motor Cars to Aero Engines
Автор: Peter Reese
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0750999004
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 351
Размер: 23,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

It’s hard to imagine a history of British engineering without Rolls-Royce: there would be no Silver Ghost, no Merlin for the Spitfire, no Alcock and Brown. Rolls-Royce is one of the most recognisable brands in the world. But what of the man who designed them? The youngest of five children, Frederick Henry Royce was born into almost Dickensian circumstances: the family business failed by the time he was 4, his father died in a Greenwich poorhouse when he was 9, and he only managed two fragmented years of formal schooling. But he made all of it count.