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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Lord Nuffield
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(William Morris, 1877–1963, bt 1929, viscount 1938) Britain's most successful car manufacturer, who set up in business at the age of 16 with a bicycle repair shop behind his home at Cowley, in Oxford. He was soon constructing and racing his own bicycles, which he followed with a motor bicycle in 1902. At the *Motor Show of 1912 he announced a car of his own make, the Morris-Oxford, and took 400 orders; the first was delivered in 1913, and the rest is the history of *Morris cars.
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In his last three decades Nuffield concerned himself chiefly with philanthropy. He gave away some £30 million during his life, mainly to projects connected with medicine and the relief of suffering. His two greatest memorials have been the Nuffield Foundation (over the years one of Britain's largest charitable trusts) and Nuffield, the college which he founded in 1937 at Oxford.
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