As part of the run up to 100th anniversary of the first non-stop return flight of the channel by CS Rolls, a special exhibition launches at Dover Museum on 31 May.
The new display at Dover Museum runs from 31 May to 5 September and features a whole range of incredible objects on loan from all over the country.
Top of the list is one of the notes dropped on France by Rolls from his plane on the cross channel flight in June 1910, lent to Dover Museum by Monmouth Museum. A very rare Eagle Engine will also be on display. The engine was designed by Henry Rolls whilst he was living in St Margaret's. It was designed at the outbreak of the First World War and was Rolls-Royce's first aero engine. Only seven of these engines now survive in the UK and this will be the first time one has been displayed locally. Other objects associated with Royce, Rolls and the company's first managing director, Claude Johnson, who lived at Kingsdown, have also been loaned to Dover Museum for this exhibition.
Rolls-Royce "Wings And Wheels" - Exhibition At Dover Museum
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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