William Aubrey Walmsley (1923–2003): The Poet of Steel and Light William Aubrey Walmsley, born October 9, 1923, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama—though his family swiftly relocated to Pueblo, Colorado—was a British-American artist and automobile designer whose career spanned decades of innovation and artistic exploration. He is best remembered as co-founder of Jaguar Cars and for pioneering a distinctive approach to design that blended aestheti…