Sir Henry Royce: Establishing Rolls-Royce, from Motor Cars to Aero Engines

The life and genius of Henry Royce, the outstanding, retiring, and often tyrannical founder of Rolls-Royce

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 wo...