MOTOR SHOW COMEDY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 5

MOTOR SHOW COMEDY

lord Nuf field Unable to Pay Admission KEPT WAITING OUTSIDE LONDON, Oct. 23. When the world's greatest motor show was opened in London the other day the door-keeper would not let Lord Nuffield in. Britain's biggest motor manufacturer has given over £10,000,000 away in the last few years — only recently he signed a cheque for £1,300,000 for a new college at Oxford. He is olie of the richest men in the world. But it so happened that he arrived at Earl's Court with only a 10/note in his pocket, and his taxi cost him 7/-. Lord Nuffield walked up to the entrance gates at Earl's Court to discover he had not got his ticket. When he deeided to pay to get in he found he had only 3/- in his pocket, and the entrance fee was 5/-. Rather diffidently, he said to the commissionaire, "I am Lord Nuffield." "Various members of his staff who had met him at the building pointed out that Lord Nuffield was to reeeive the Lord Mayor of London, who was opening the show. "Oh, yes," replied tlie commissionaire. "Well, you can't come in without a ticket." And he could not. . Lord Nuffield -was amused, but they kept him — the oue man, more than any oue else, who has made tihia great exhibition possible— 1Waitingi about for 10 minutes before they let him into the show. '