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===Iron Lung=== Visiting London in 1938 during a [[polio]] epidemic Lord Nuffield saw a Both [[Iron lung|Iron Lung]] in use. He commissioned an improved design which could be produced using the techniques of car assembly and arranged production of approximately 1700 machines at the Cowley works, which he donated to hospitals throughout all parts of Britain and the British Empire.<ref name="Langmore">{{cite book| editor-last=Langmore| editor-first=Diane| title=Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 17 1981-1990 A-K| publisher=[[Melbourne University Publishing]]| location=Carlton, Victoria| year=2009| page=129| isbn=978-0522853827}}</ref> Both-Nuffield respirators were able to be produced by the thousand at about one-thirteenth the cost of the American design.<ref name="Healey">{{cite web| last=Healey| first=John| year=1998| url=http://www.samhs.org.au/Virtual%20Museum/Medicine/Bothurinlung/bothironlung-netley.html| title=The Both Brothers and the 'Iron Lung' | publisher=South Australian Medical Heritage Society Inc| access-date=10 June 2016}}</ref> [[File:1938 Wolseley 25hp Drophead Coupe (16651208945).jpg|thumb|1936 Wolseley]] [[File:Riley 12 Rathfarnham Castle 023 (8515054085).jpg|thumb|1939 Riley]]
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