Charles Rolls aviator

• Guest 700

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  8 July 2010     16:3159529
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  I see you have a picture of that lovely Panhard -L- car belonging to Charles Rolls on the front page today, here is a photo I took of the other end of it!
  

  

  
  
  K.
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  8 July 2010     16:4459531
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  Ah Kath...if only we'd known, so close together yet so far...ships passing in the night !
  
  
  Yes indeed a lovely car. I hadnt used the picture on the frontpage before so was looking around for an opportunity to do so and up popped the pothole problem.
  
  
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  8 July 2010     20:2659575
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  Newspaper report (Dover Express) of unveiling of Rolls' Memorial in 1913:
  

  

  
  
  Kath
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  8 July 2010     20:4559579
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  great bit of history there, the gateway flats look rather different today though.
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  8 July 2010     21:1059584
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  Wonderful car and I like the Victorian style dress.
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