Sir William Rootes

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    While this magnetic,
    Peripatetic
    Lover he lived to learn,
    By no endeavor
    Can a magnet ever
    Attract a Silver Churn!
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.
    —Sir William Rootes (1894–1964)