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Founders: #81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)

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[00:00:00] The historic first meeting of Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls took place on May 4th, 1904. The two men could have hardly come from more different backgrounds. C.S. 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 [00:00:26] was the one of Hard Knocks. The one characteristics they both had in common was a certain prickliness, perhaps in both case born of shyness than arrogance. And here's a quote from Rawls describing…

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