Talk:Nuffield Mechanizations and Aero

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Choice of picture for article[edit]

Current images are poor choices - most are not of Nuffield Mechanisation and Aero products, and one is a poor image choice.

File	Original image caption (from Commons/IWM Collection)	Rationale
Winston Churchill giving his famous V-for-Victory sign while being driven past a line of troops in Tel-el-Kebir, 9 August 1942. E15387.jpg	Winston Churchill giving his famous V-for-Victory sign while being driven past a line of troops in Tel-el-Kebir, 9 August 1942. The vehicle is a Morris-Commercial 8cwt truck	As caption says "Morris-Commercial" not Nuffield
The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 B8478.jpg	"25-pdrs and 'Quad' tractors advancing towards Vire, 2 August 1944."	Vehicles are Morris C8 "Quads" - built by Morris Commercial see here not Nuffield Mechanisation
The British Army in North Africa 1941 E7245.jpg	"A 25-pdr field gun and 'Quad' artillery tractor, 22 December 1941."	1) As above Morris Quad FAT was produced by Morris not Nuffield Mechanisation 2) you can't see the vehicle because it's driving away and the towed gun is in the way - it's a bad image to illustrate vehicle full stop
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force, 1939-1945. CH8328.jpg	"A WAAF driver refuels her Morris Type 'C' ambulance at a petrol pump outside the workshops at Cardington, Bedfordshire."	The Type C were built by Morris Commercial Cars contemporary ref

The Nuffield organisation included many companies variously named after Morris or his title but which were independent entities. GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:08, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mr Leggett, I believe you are an expert on aeroplanes. Right? Would that explain why you appear to be unable to read the first sentence of this article describing this particular business. I quote "Lord Nuffield's (W R Morris's) personal enterprise developing improved methods for mechanisation and mobility of the British Army and the ground section of the Royal Air Force." The fuss you are making is more than irrelevant it is indeed bizarre. Eddaido (talk) 12:51, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agree that the gallery can go: as pointed out above, most of the images are only indirectly related to this article and rather belong to the Morris Commercial Cars one. There is even already a mention there of the Morris C8 tractor; only the picture is missing. Eddaido, what is irrelevant is your ad-personam arguments: either answer the points raised (properly, not just by saying 'read the article') or don't revert. --Deeday-UK (talk) 14:46, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

End and Origins[edit]

Curiously when checking date of winding up listed in London Gazette notice here and subsequently here and of final meeting here , I found a 1937 appointment of liquidators notice here with follow up NUFFIELD MECHANIZATIONS Limited. (Members' Voluntary Winding-up.) May be of some use? GraemeLeggett (talk) 15:38, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]