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Died. Sir Harold Beresford Butler, 67, a founder of the League of Nations' I.L.O. (International Labour Organization), who served as its director (1932-38), then as warden of Oxford's Nuffield College (r939-43), finally as Director General of the British Information Services in America during the war years; of acute pancreatitis; in Reading, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Thanks to devaluation of the pound, some of the smallest of the British cars were priced well under U.S. cars. Nuffield's two-passenger MG Midget was down to $1,850 delivered in New York, Austin's five-passenger sedan was tagged at $1,480 (its "hardtop" is higher), and Ford Motor Co. Ltd.'s small, four-passenger Anglia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Britain's Entries | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Lord, who preferred to build motorcars, quit Nuffield with the observation: "I am pigheaded, and Nuffield has his opinions." He went to work for Austin Motors, became its chairman when Lord Austin died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Minor Bid | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...while Nuffield was still honking along with cars made from prewar dies, Lord rolled out a spanking new, postwar-model Austin for the U.S. and Canadian market. Last year he sold $22 million worth in the U.S. and Canada. Nuffield had to content himself with selling his prewar cars in the Empire and soft-currency areas in Europe, while he changed over to his postwar models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Minor Bid | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

With his new four-cylinder models, Nuffield promised to give Lord a stiff race for U.S. sales. The Morris Minor convertibles (see cut) and sedans will retail for $1,555 or less in New York (v. Austin's $1,595); the slightly bigger Morris Oxford for $2,100. Smaller than U.S. cars (147½ inches overall v. 196¾ inches for Fords), the Minors get 35 miles to the gallon, have a top speed of 65 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Minor Bid | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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