Claude Johnson
Claude Goodman Johnson (24 October 1864 – 12 April 1926), motor vehicle manufacturer, was the British businessman who built Rolls-Royce Limited. Johnson described himself as the hyphen in the Rolls-Royce name but, without Royce who was ill and took his design staff home from 1908, and losing Rolls in July 1910 it was Johnson the founding entrepreneur who kept the business alive until his own death in April 1926.
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| Birth date | October 24, 1864 |
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| Date of death | April 12, 1926 |
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