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Books about Lord Nuffield

Martin Adeney (1993): Nuffield. A Biography, Robert Hale Limited, London.

 

P. W. S. Andrews and Elizabeth Brunner (1955): The Life of Lord Nuffield. A Study in Enterprise & Benevolence, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Note: Philip Andrews was an economics fellow of Nuffield College.

 

Edward Gillbanks (1959): Lord Nuffield, Cassell, London.

 

Peter Hull (1997): Lord Nuffield, Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire.

 

James Leasor (1954): Wheels To Fortune - The Life And Times Of Lord Nuffield, The Bodley Head.

 

John F Minns (1940):  Wealth Well-Given: The Enterprise And Benevolence Of Lord Nuffield,   Alan Sutton, Stroud.

R.J. Overy:   William Morris, Lord Nuffield,   Europa Library of Business Biography London 1976

Sir Miles Thomas:   Out on a Wing   Pub. Michael Joseph   1964  (Miles Thomas biography but has material on Morris)

Charles Fenby:   The Other Oxford    Pub Lund Humphries 1970  SBN 85 331 278 8    

R C Whiting:    The View from Cowley   Pub. Clarendon  1983 ISBN 0-19-821897-4  

Harry Edwards:   The Morris Motor Car       Pub Roadmaster   ISBN 1 871814 01-4   

Ernest Fairfax (actually Miles Thomas):   Calling All Arms    Hutchinson   late 40's?    (Nuffield organisation through the 2nd WW) 

Peter Seymour:    Wolseley Radial Engines (Lord Nuffield's Thwarted Venture)   Pub  Tempus Publishing ISBN 0-7524-3915-4; History of Wolseley's complete range of radial aero engines; illustrated; contains much information on the wartime Shadow factory scheme and Lord  Nuffield's wartime activities and his relarionship with Air Ministry; Lennard Lord etc; interesting profiles of personalities in appendices; Recommended; on sale at Nuffield Place.

Gillian Bardsley/Stephen Laing:   Making Cars at Cowley    Pub  Tempus Publishing ISBN 0-7524-3902-2; Pictorial of manufacture from WRM Motors to BMW at Cowley with good introduction to each chapter;    Recommended; on sale at Nuffield Place.

 

Articles about Lord Nuffield

Save Nuffield Place - Press Release 4th April 2008

Why we must save Nuffield Place  Oxford Times 28th March 2008

William Morris - a pioneer in motor engineering  by Priscilla Waugh, Oxfordshire Limited Edition, The Oxford Times, June 2005

Lord Nuffield, Sir Robert Macintosh and Nuffield Place, an Invitation  Article  by Dorothy Silberston from Guy's, King's & St.Thomas's

     Hospitals Medical & Dental Schools Gazette,   April 2001

Oxford to Oxford in an Oxford  Article in The Times  20 July 2005

Nuffield Place     Article in Oxford Times November 2005

Master Industrialist    An article in The Oxford Times Limited Edition April 2006 by Nicola Lisle