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    William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes GBE (17 August 1894 – 12 December 1964) was a British motor manufacturer. He opened his first car sales agency...
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    The Rootes Group or Rootes Motors Limited was a British automobile manufacturer and, separately, a major motor distributors and dealers business. Run from...
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  • businessman Sir William Rootes. He was head of the motor car manufacturer Rootes Ltd and following his death, his son, William Geoffrey Rootes, became the...
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  • (William) Geoffrey Rootes, 2nd Baron Rootes (14 June 1917 – 16 January 1992) was the chairman of Rootes Motors (1964-1967), Chrysler UK (1967-1978) and...
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  • William, Bill, or Billy Root may refer to: William Pitt Root, American poet William Lucas Root, American information theorist Bill Root (ice hockey),...
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  • Maurice Rootes (1917–1997), British film editor William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes (1894–1964), founder of the Rootes Group William Geoffrey Rootes (1917–1992)...
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    Built Before". It showed the influence of William Rootes' marketing skills following the appointment of Rootes Limited as Humber's "World Exporters" and...
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    The Hillman Imp is a small economy car that was made by the Rootes Group and its successor Chrysler Europe from 1963 until 1976. Revealed on 3 May 1963...
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    Rootes Arrow was the manufacturer's name for a range of cars produced under several badge-engineered marques by the Rootes Group (later Chrysler Europe)...
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    Humber Limited (category Rootes Group)
    Hillman in 1928 the Rootes brothers acquired 60 per cent of Humber's ordinary capital, sufficient for a controlling interest. The two Rootes brothers joined...
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    Singer Motors (category Rootes Group)
    Singer's business was acquired by his Rootes Group in 1956, which continued the brand until 1970, a few years following Rootes' acquisition by the American Chrysler...
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  • William Lucas Root (1919 – April 22, 2007) was a noted American information theorist. As an early pioneer in the field, Root was instrumental in providing...
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    Alfred Mynn (1807–61), cricketer, was born in Goudhurst. William Rootes (1894–1964), founder of Rootes Group was born in Goudhurst. Sir James Stirling (1836–1916)...
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    all rejected it. After an inspection of the plant, Sir William Rootes, head of the British Rootes Group, told Hirst the project would fail within two years...
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  • Hillman (category Rootes Group)
    large cars. The Rootes brothers reached a sixty per cent holding of Humber in 1932 which they retained until 1967, when Chrysler bought Rootes and bought out...
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  • Royce Rondel Racing – Ron Dennis and Neil Trundle Rootes Group (now part of Stellantis) – William Rootes Rossetti Architects – Gino Rossetti and Matthew...
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    reconstruction was undertaken by a committee headed by motor-industry magnate William Rootes. In the aftermath of the war, Coventry city centre was extensively rebuilt...
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  • William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet. He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida. He studied at the University of Washington...
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    approached Brian Rootes, head of sales for the Rootes Group, for funding and authorisation to build a prototype, to which Brian Rootes agreed. Well all...
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    Kent, who improved the plantings and the house. In the 1840s Viscount William Beresford developed the estate by creating the village of Kilndown and...
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    The William Root House Museum and Garden is the oldest wood-frame house still standing in Marietta, built c. 1845. Once owned by William Root, one of...
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    Peugeot takeover saw the end of the Rootes' Chrysler Hunter production, but the Chrysler Avenger and Sunbeam (also both Rootes designs), and the Simca 1307 (Chrysler...
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    General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, PC (/ˈkɑːr ˈbɛrɪsfərd/; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854)...
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    Rootes Australia was the Australian affiliate of the Rootes Group, a British motor vehicle manufacturing company. The company was formed immediately after...
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  • stage and film actress (d. 1980) 1894 – William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, founded Rootes Group (d. 1964) 1896 – Leslie Groves, American...
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  • Charles William Donaldson (4 January 1935 – 22 June 2005) was a British satirist, writer, playboy and, under the pseudonym of Henry Root, author of The...
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    Caspar Phillipson, actor Richard Pilbrow, theatre producer William Rootes, co-founder of the Rootes Group Piers Sellers, astronaut Sir Nicholas Shackleton...
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  • Duke of York, who holds the subsidiary title of Baron Killyleagh, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, who holds the subsidiary title of Baron Carrickfergus...
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  • Remainder according to the link Scottish Representative Peer 3rd son of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire 2nd son of George Leveson-Gower, 1st...
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    14, 1989) Henry Webb Salisbury (born October 5, 1908 - May 16, 1938) William Root Salisbury (June 20, 1911 - April 6, 1990) The family lived at 1810 West...
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