One was a thoroughbred patrician with an obsession with motor racing, while the other rose from a hardy farmer stock to become a self-taught mechanic and manufacturer of breakthrough technology cars and engines.
What happens when two such polar opposite characters by chance met each other during the fin de siecle Britain?
This episode of HistoryChatter revisits the fairy tale of how Rolls met Royce and the ways in which that meeting changed the history of surface transport, war, and aviation in the twentieth century.
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