Schemes for Professional Engineers

Sir Henry Royce Bursary

This scheme was closed to new applications in 2005.

Further information please contact the scheme administrator Anne Mahabal a the Academy's address.

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Sir Frederick Henry Royce (1863–1933)

The son of a miller, Royce’s engineering career began in 1877 when he became apprenticed to the Great Northern Railway in Peterborough. Following a brief spell as a machine tool maker, he joined the Electric Lighting and Power Generating Company in 1881 as a Tester, and was promoted to Chief Electrician in 1882. When the company was liquidated in 1884, he decided to set up his own company: F H Royce and Co Ltd, manufacturing electric lighting components, dynamos, motors and switchgears.

Royce’s love of the motorcar began in 1902 and by the spring of 1904, his company’s first car took to the road. Later that year he was introduced to another pioneer of the motoring industry, Charles Rolls, and within a short space of time Royce’s company were making cars for Rolls’ company to sell. This partnership was formalised in 1906 when Rolls-Royce Ltd was registered as a company.

Royce’s engineering talents were extended in 1914 when the company became involved in the development and manufacture of aero engines.

Sir Henry Royce was committed to life long learning in order to overcome the deficiencies in his early education, having been forced to leave school at the age of 12.

 

 

Updated February 2013

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