THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1058.
TAKE IT EASY
GILES
"Ma'am,
to my knowledge
we ain't
sent a dog
up in ours,
but if
we ever do
may I be to hell and gone from these islands".
"My watch is my companion saps
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PAT SMYTHE-
The world's leading woman show-hasper
RAGS TO RICHES:
He
GAVE AWAY
WHA
£27 Millions
HAT would you do if you had £27,000,000 to spend? Buy a yacht? Tako a world cruise? Build a luxurious home and retire for life?
A man who started his career as a five-shillings-a-week apprentice was once. confronted
with this
attractive little
problem. What he did was to give the £27 millions away
though not all at once.
The man was Willim
Richard Morris, first is at the age of 27, he married; count Nufleld, and his is one the following year he started of the strangest of all rings car-hire and taxi service. to- riches stories. Few Then he had the dream whose
of
multi-millionaires have re- fullment was to be the founda-
* vasi motor-. mained so unaffected by tion new-found wealth, and not manufacturing empire. He would one has put his money to build a cheap but efficient enr and bring motoring within the more imaginative and con reach of the masses. mendable use.
allowed anyone to persuade him
to make a particular donation,
He has used his wealth with; such imagination that few people in the world cannot have benefited from it in some form or other
..
It was natural that ns a man who wanted to be a surgeon and has often suffered from who poor health, he should give a large part of his wealth to
end
medical With a capital of £4,000 he hospitala
for Lord Nuffield has been called started work on producing the research.
first greatest philanthropist in
the
Morris "Oxford". It
the Commonwealth. He is one Appeared in
of only two living Englishmen two-seater
1912- reliable car which. t only challenge
(the other is Sir Winston £165, offered a bold Churchill) of whom there pre to the populer Ford models of
Glatues in London.
the day.
ENSURED PENICILLIN FOR ALL
His money has male available
Yet he started his carer The first World War upset is to people all over the world, without title or money and had plans to further expansion, the only a ylilage-school education, During the conflict, Morris 4.
life-saving pentelllin. It provided almost every
In 1803, at the age of 18, he earned himself an O.B.E. by hospital in the Commonwealth. went to work as 1 cycle turning out mine sinkers, bomb repairer's apprentice.
ese, and hand grenades instead of cars, but by 1919 he had litle those days' Billy Morris money left.
In
Ja one burning ambition-to
.
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with iron higs" and paid for which led to great research
in brain and advances
in orthopaedic
and surgery anaesthesia. It also financed the
become a surgeon, but his Ciradually however, he In- developancit of "talking books" family could not afford to send creased car production until, in for the blind...
him to medical school. So his
sensitive hands manipulated a
spanner instead of a egalpel,
No man in Britain has ever turned n
spanner with results. In 50-odd
profitable
such
y.cars, he WES to amos fortune of
thon more
£20 million; and his money was to benefit medical science far more than ever he could have done us a surgeon,
Billy Morris had no formal training as an engineer. But he
By John Cottrell
1021, he was faced with a new crisis. There was a great slump: his cars were plling up unsold
He is a
t Riany instances, Lord has been his tremendous capa- Nuffield decided to make a gift city for hard work. after personal experience of a man who has never been afraid reed. After suffering a bad to roll up his shirt-sleeves and It was thes that William anaesthesia when
having teeth work as hard as his employees. tremendous extracted and again when his
was a naturally gifted mechanie, Morris Look who loved to take vehicles apart
crmble the kind of gamble appendix was removed, he de- In fact, work and life are and put them together agala. which makes or breaks the big cided to establish A chair synonymous to this unassuming
He spent nine months repair-sinessman, Against the advice of
ing bicycles for a wage of five chillinge a week. Then he asked for a rise of one shilling: It was refused.
IN BUSINESS-ON E4
enaesthetics
of experts, he slashed the price University.
of
his
four-seater Morris "Cowley" by £100.
ut
Oxford millionaire,
As he said recently: "It is now The gamble paid off. Not almost impossible for a patient only did Morris sell all his cars, to die on the operating table." but he who secured orders for 10,000 more, From then on, his Although since 1920, Lord financial worrica were over.
So, with a capital of only £4, his own young Morris set up cycle-repair shop in the front parents cusė. room of his
old Later, he converted
a two-seater car for as little as thing he wants for himself. into a stable
factory, and £100, I 1930, his company started to build his own "bone- tumed out its milionth car, shakers".
at
the motor
hand over He did hot
his great leadership of manufacturing enterprise until the age of 75, when he had been at the helm for nearly 60 years. Even then, he did not retire altogether.
Luckily for Lord Nuffield, it decided to buy a certain factory and was told the contract would mishred. The kidnapper's ac- revealed the plan be ready in a month's time. Suid complice
weat 10 its originalor Naffled: "I want it to sign in and
He seven years, precisely one hour's time or prison for
died soon after is release. cise the deal is oft."
The contract was and signed within the hour.
Nuffield's But perhaps Laord drawn up
to greatest piece of luck w03
at exactly be born
the right moment-just when the intant
motor British
industry crying out for a great pioneer. and leader.
Lord Nufold was tough boss, but he advanced by enter- prise and initiative; never double-derling.
SAVED HIS RIVALS
went po far
by
KWAS
"
Today, high taxation venia anyone Documulating
Plaza, neznam) by the courtray of puttu Por Dryshe, OF, the Brisch Lemzisien Fund
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vast wealth in Britain. He once
as to it the opportunity occurs again, rival company from it is certain there will never bo BAVO D
quito extinction-eot for apons of another multi-millionaire
but pain
simply like William Morris, nor one who personal
Ive
the because
thought
uses. his wealth so wisely, business had suffered Thore than its share of bad luck.
Last-and certainly least- Lord Nuffield has enjoyed just a le good luck-but in Numeld has made over 100 gifts
41 дого £27,-
Kło
In totalling approximately
Though his original firm of
private part of business. £1,000 he bestrode Soon,
Britain's 500,000 nearly
for Morris Motors is new motor industry. In 1931 he every day of his life he is stili
the giant British Motor Corpora- remains as millionaire, able to buy any- caused a sensation by offering
tion, Lord Nuffield Honorary President and takes a keen interest in a develop Yet he has always chosen to
ments. At the age of 80, he live a frugal life.
He has a drives 20 miles lo worli almost modest house Morr's was created a baronet comparatively
every day. two servants. with only
Kls in 1029, a karon in 1934 and a
Brilliant mechanical ability The liner nover completed viscount in 1938. Six cities plainly-furnished office in the
explains much of Lord Nulled's her
crossing, Sho have inade him an Jumorery Game one he occupied when Arst
and rise from poverty to riches. But sank
collision Freem:11. As a result of the he started making cars,
even more vital has been this every passenger was drowned merger in 1951,
business-scrEN. cluirman
White-haired and wiry, Lord. uncanny of the
- Lady Luck was again with few British Motor Corporation, the Nuield is essentially a man of often have his forecasts proved
He does not correct, hin competitors right Lord Nulleld when,
stepped fourth largest car-manufacturing great simplicity.
have been forgiven for inazin- minutes after he had
Broico out of a lift, the cable be even lived like one.
ing he had a crystal ball.
and seven passengers were killed.
He never spered himself to further the business. He thought nothing of cycling 60-odd miles from Oxford to Birmingham to collect bicycle parts, thea Morris-Austin pedalling back and working all he became aight to get his orders inished.
He always worked long hours, combine in the entire world. foolt like a millionaire; nor tas nnut to advertise his bites be would don shorts and a block For all his great pioneering ekull cap and ride them in work in the
He has been known to roll his motor industry, TACE, “At 22, he was cyclmg Lord Nuffield may well be own cigareties and to call at a champlon of three counties. remembered ca a philanthropist Dah-and-chip ahog
Morris had to drive timsoli hard. He had to pay a staff of two as well es support his mother and sister out of his earnings.
So
in For instance,
1914 he booked
from the a page U.S.A. back to Britain on the Empress of Ireland. liner Beauo his train was delayed, he just missed the ship.
Atlantic
after
In fact, what he had was a sure knowledge of what people for Six wanted and how best to give it sinister piot was The man whose to them. than ce & car mini- pennyworth". rather
He himself hoe said factories turn cut thousands of facturer. that the giving of money wisely luxurious cars, the last word in has been more difficult than the modern automobile design, him- gelf drives a pre-war 8-horse- making of it,
power eloon sweeth Nttle more than £100!
Then therO JAVIER the time a hatched to kidan
Nuffield and . Lord Jing demand a ransom of £100,000. Lord Nuffield's success
Javo been due also to his brilliance. The plan might easily
ended in murder, for tho in picking, the right men to work for him and his ability to eldnapper carried a pistol and equipped lind ready a yacht, make big decisions quickly.. with hypodermic needles and When he had made up is surgical equipment, in which One of the secrets of Lord mind, he liked to get things to take the millionaire out of :
phenomenal success moving at top speed. Once he the country.
Lord Nuffield has personally But by 1000, he had managed
£2,000. to savi
lo started planned every gift he has made. building motor-cycles, then ho He has never parted with B toolt on motor repairs. In 1004, pendy in haste, and he has not Nuffield's
"My, my! This year the season of peace and good will dors seem to hors gone by in a flash ju
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