3 NOVEMBER 1939, Page 6

So Lord Nuffield is to lend his invaluable organising energies

to the Air Ministry—the dust of whose doors he shook off after an unfortunate encounter with Lord Swinton, then Minister for Air, three years ago. Sir Kingsley Wood is to be congratulated. Lord Nuffield must be in his habits the simplest millionaire who ever lived. Not long ago he was looking into the window of one of the most attractive shops in Bond Street. " What a show," he said, " —and not one thing I want."

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