VISCOUNT NUFFIELD

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1938, Page 10

VISCOUNT NUFFIELD

NO INTEREST IN FILMS. LONDON, April 14. Viscount Nuffield, fresh from his tour of Australia and New Zealand, is back at his desk at Crowley, Oxford, directing the affairs of Morris Motors.

I found him deeply bronzed, alert and as forthright as ever. He told me the trip had done him a great deal of good (writes a Daily Mail reporter).

“I am settling down now until next January,” he said. “Then it is quite possible I may undertake another Empire tour. “Actually my last Empire tour should have been to South Africa,! but I wanted to attend the eelebra-! lions of Sydney’s 150th anniversary, j “It was my fifth visit to Australia. 1

I like Australians and New Zealanders. My trouble is that they nearly kill you with hospitality. “Our business with them is extremely good, but we have had to put in a lot of hard work to get it.

“We are selling them a lot of cars of low and medium horse-power. They are losing the idea that a car must have a very large engine. They are finding that a small car is less liable to sink in mud. “Roads have improved enormously in places where motorists used to have to get out and move boulders, which had been left there when the floods washed away thei surface; I found excellent concrete highways. f “You may speed along new roads hundreds of miles long, or find yourself on tracks in the undeveloped lands. “You must, remember that' the population of Australia is only 7.000,000, and that they have land many times the size of Great Bri-| tain.” ■ I Lord Nuffield said that he had no conversation or dealings with anybody that, might have given foundation to (he report published in the American paper Variety that he intended to invest in the film industry.