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#81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)

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The historic first meeting of Henry Royce and C S Rolls Took place on May fourth, nineteen oh four. The two men could have hardly come from more different backgrounds. CS Rolls had been educated at Cambridge and moved comfortably in London society among his aristocratic and wealthy friends. Henry Royce had known poverty and hardship

All his life. The only university he'd graduated from was the one of Hard Knox. The one characteristics they both had in common was a certain prickliness. Perhaps in both case Born of shyness.

Then arrogance. And here's a quote from Rolls describing his meeting uh with with Royce a few years later. And he says You may ask yourself how it was that it came to be associated with mister Royce and mister Roy with me. Well, for a considerable number of years I had been actively engaged in the sale of foreign cars.

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