LORD NUFFIELD
ONE BAD INVESTMENT | PURCHASE OF GOLF CLUB A writer in an Fngl'sh paper says— Lord Nuffield, who lias be-m made a viscount in ttie New Year Honours, told me at luncheon not long ago that he has made only one had tlnanci C investment, though it was good for his health— -the purchase of Huntercomb C'df dub. Worcester has the honour of being his actual IcKthplace, though he was brought hack at the age of tw, to IBs grand a Pier's property in Oxfordshire. This was Wood Farm, near HcaiUngton. Lord N'u tile Id began oil a capital of i at No. 1 HU. Holywell, at Oxford, ! two ye ,rs before the war. ; Wlii'ii the war broke out he was ' ust about to launch a £125 car, but luol to shut right down on nut idle manufacture. Instead he found himself making 50,000 mine sinkers for ; i the North Fca minefield. • His real hobby to-day is medical ; research. Every man has his own pet j pride. Lord Nutfield's is that it takes i about three times the ordinary amount ! |of anaesthetic to render him uncon- i (.Continued la previous column)
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20425, 16 February 1938, Page 4
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