NO RACING CARS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 January 1933, Page 5

NO RACING CARS

SIR W. MORRIS’S ATTITUDE. Sir William Morris presided at a luncheon of motor racing drivers at the Savoy Hotel recently, held in honour of M.G. successes during the past season. He made it clear that he is still opposed to building cars with racing as the main objective. It was, he declared, a sure way to ruin, “I have not gone in for racing," explained Sir William, “because I ■want to remain in business. I am like a breeder of famous sheep-dogs. Suppose I sold one to a man who entered it for the greyhound Derby at the White City. If the dog- won I should be delighted, but I should not be foolish enough to pour out money trying to create a breed of racing sheep dogs.” Men bought M.G. ears, he added, and raced with them and won. Naturally they were delighted, but the important thing was that the cars would still behave like a. tame rabbi I in I rallic. Lord Howe, who is to he one of a loam driving M.G. cars in the famous Italian 1000 miles race next April, said (hat in the new M.G. Britain had at last produced a, car lit to hold its own against the finest racing cars of the world in its class. He looked forward to the day when some British manufacturer would build a racingcar to beat the world, irrespective of size.