Next to No Time

David Webb, a backroom bowfin who is brilliant behind a desk, but shy and nervous with people and unfamiliar situations, has an ingenious scheme for converting his employer's factory to automation. His scheme, however, requires more capital than the firm can provide, and to his horror he finds himself unexpectedly thrust aboard the liner 'Queen Elizabeth' en route for America, with the express purpose of tracking down the famous industrialist, Sir Godfrey Dowan, to persuade him to finance the scheme ...