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Vexed and wroth were English tycoons last week when Sir Percival gave to the Spectator, famed London weekly review, a signed article by Mr. Ford in which the latter served notice that all Ford workmen will be paid at least ?5 a week at his new English factory in Dagenham...
This criticism agrees exactly with conclusions reached by the MacDonald Government's Trade Mission to South America (TIME, Sept. 23), which has issued a report flaying English manufacturers as too stupid and stubborn to make what South Americans want to buy, and secondly flaying English diplomats as too stiff...
Medium tall, erect, precise, a wearer of hard suits, unfashionable collars and old-fashioned spectacles is Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, 52, who was the original agent (1909) for Ford cars in England.
When Mr. and Mrs. Ford went to England in 1928, the Motor Man was able to hire Sir Percival a second time, and from this dates the enormous expansion of Ford Motors Ltd., a subsidiary which showed profits last year of ?1,013.506. or almost as much as dividend-shy...
In January 1930, Sir Percival sailed for Turkey and came back overland through Europe, leaving consternation in his wake -such as the Steyr scandal in Vienna and the Isotta-Fraschini affair in Milan (TIME, March 31). Back in London, "Sir P.," who is after all an Englishman, did not join...