Lord Nuffield

Lord Nuffield
Lord Nuffield [Lord Nuffield] born
(William Richard Morris 1877–1963) an English ↑businessman who was the first person in Britain to ↑mass-produce cars (= make them in large quantities by mechanical processes). He started his business repairing bicycles in ↑Oxford, and soon moved into making bicycles and then cars. The Morris car company was very successful and Morris himself became very rich. He gave a lot of his money to hospitals and charities and also to ↑Oxford University, where Nuffield College was named after him.
See also MG, See also Morris Minor

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