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    Peter Roylance Rolt, MC & Bar, (16 October 1918 – 6 February 2008) was a British racing driver, soldier and engineer. A war hero, Rolt maintained a long...
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  • Rolt is a surname, and may refer to: Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt, 1st Baronet Sir Andrew Bayntun-Rolt, 2nd Baronet Edward Rolt (c.1629–1698), soldier, diplomat...
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  • race nine times, most famously [according to whom?] in partnership with Tony Rolt. The pair finished fourth at their first attempt in the 1950 race and...
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  • driver  Tony Rolt,  who had engaged Dixon to maintain his ERA racing car became interested in Dixon's ideas and between them formed Dixon-Rolt Developments...
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    third round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship. British drivers Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton won the race with one of three factory-entered Jaguar...
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    Randle approached Tony Rolt's company, FF Developments to design the transmission and four-wheel drive system for the XJ220, with Rolt's son Stuart running...
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    – Peter Walker qualified and drove 2 laps of the race in the #9 ERA. Tony Rolt took over the car for 3 laps of the race. ^3 – Joe Fry qualified and drove...
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    all three retired from the race. The Peter Whitehead-Ian Stewart and Tony Rolt/Duncan Hamilton cars blew head gaskets, and the Stirling Moss-Peter Walker...
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    albeit with only one of its two engines in operation, was driven by Tony Rolt, an ex-Colditz prisoner of war and the future developer of four-wheel...
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    by Harry Ferguson when he acquired Dixon-Rolt Developments, a company set up by two racing drivers, Tony Rolt and Fred Dixon, whose aim was to make a super-safe...
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