{i} C.S. Rolls, Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910) English who was the cofounder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing company (together with Frederick Henry Royce)
{i} C.S. Rolls, Charles Rolls (1877-1910) English who was the cofounder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing company (together with Frederick Henry Royce)
{i} family name; Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910) English who was the cofounder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing company(together with Frederick Henry Royce)
British manufacturer of aircraft engines and propulsion and power systems and, for much of the 20th century, a maker of luxury automobiles. Charles S. Rolls, a pioneer motorist and aviator, and Henry Royce, an engineer and carmaker, incorporated Rolls-Royce Ltd. in 1906. The firm's handsome, immaculately engineered cars included the Silver Ghost (introduced 1906 as "40/50 hp" model), a series of Phantoms (1925), the Silver Dawn (1949), Silver Cloud (1955), Silver Shadow (1965), and Silver Seraph (1998). In 1931 Rolls-Royce acquired Bentley Motors Ltd., another maker of fine cars. Rolls-Royce also developed a series of notable piston and jet aircraft engines, beginning with the Eagle (1914); eventually its turbine-engine operations accounted for the largest part of its sales. A fixed-price contract with Lockheed Aircraft (see Lockheed Martin Corp.) to produce an engine for its L-1011 TriStar jetliner drove Rolls-Royce into bankruptcy in 1971. It was split into two companies: its jet-engine division was taken over by the British government and later privatized as Rolls-Royce PLC, while its automobile operations were restructured into Rolls-Royce Motor Holdings Ltd. and privatized. The latter was acquired in 1980 by Vickers Ltd., which sold it to Volkswagen AG in 1998 as part of a novel agreement in which BMW AG would take over the manufacture of cars with the Rolls-Royce name in 2003, while Volkswagen retained the Bentley line
Continuous strips of fiber glass insulation, available in lengths up to 70', depending on thickness R-VALUE The capacity of an insulating material to resist heat flow; the higher the R-value, the better the insulator
Dwarfs of Northern mythology, living in hills or mounds; they are represented as stumpy, misshapen, and humpbacked, inclined to thieving, and fond of carrying off children or substituting one of their own offspring for that of a human mother They are called hill-people, and are especially averse to noise, from a recollection of the time when Thor used to be for ever flinging his hammer after them (Icelandic, troll )' (See Fairy ) Out then spake the tiny Troll, No bigger than an emmet he Danish ballad, Eline of Villenskov Trolly A cart used in mines and on railways A railway trolly is worked by the hand, which moves a treadle; a coal-mine trolly used to be pushed by trolly-boys; ponies are now generally employed instead of boys (Welsh, trol, a cart; trolio, to roll or trundle, whence to troll a catch- i e to sing a catch or round )