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    The Austin Motor Company Limited was a British manufacturer of motor vehicles, founded in 1905 by Herbert Austin in Longbridge. In 1952 it was merged with...
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  • The Austin marque started with the Austin Motor Company, and survived a merger with the Nuffield Organization to form the British Motor Corporation, incorporation...
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  • Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker established in 1952 through a joint venture between the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation...
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  • fictional characters Austin (surname), a list of people and fictional characters Austin Motor Company, a British car manufacturer Austin (album), by Post...
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  • businesses. BMC acquired the shares in Morris Motors and the Austin Motor Company. Morris Motors, the holding company of the productive businesses of the Nuffield...
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  • merged with Austin Motor Company to form the British Motor Corporation in 1952, the Morris name remained in use until 1984, when the by-then Austin Rover Group...
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    ISBN 0688048382. "Austin History (1906-1952)". Motor Car History. Retrieved 29 October 2024. Cususmano "The Short History of Nissan Motor Company". Nissan-global...
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    Wolseley Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in early 1901 by the Vickers Armaments in conjunction with Herbert Austin. It initially...
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    licensed from the British Austin Motor Company from 1930 through 1934, after it had filed for bankruptcy protection. The company was liquidated in 1935 and...
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  • British Motor Corporation (Australia) was a motor manufacturing company formed in Australia in 1954 by the merger of the Austin Motor Company (Australia)...
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    (sold as A40, A50, A55, and A60) is a medium-sized motor car range produced by the Austin Motor Company, in several generations, from September 1954 through...
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    The Austin Champ was a military and civilian jeep-like vehicle made by the Austin Motor Company in the 1950s. The army version was officially known as...
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    Westminsters were built. The Westminster name was previously used by the Austin Motor Company in the 1930s for a four light version of the 16/6 and the Heavy 12/4...
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    Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin KBE (8 November 1866 – 23 May 1941) was an English automobile designer and builder who founded the Austin Motor Company. For...
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    The Peerless Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer that produced the Peerless brand of motorcars in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1900 to...
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    The Austin Loadstar was a truck produced by the British Austin Motor Company from 1949. It was Austin's first new truck design after World War II and...
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  • The Austin Rover Group (abbreviated ARG) was a British motor manufacturer. It was created in 1982 as the mass-market car manufacturing subsidiary of British...
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  • in 1952 of the Morris and Austin businesses. In 1961 he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the British Motor Corporation having taken over...
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  • MG Cars (redirect from MG Car Company)
    into The British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC), created in 1952 as a merger of Morris Motors Limited and The Austin Motor Company Limited. Long-time...
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    The Austin A30 is a small family car produced by Austin from May 1952 to September 1956. It was launched at the 1951 Earls Court Motor Show as the "New...
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  • British Motor Holdings Limited (BMH) was a British vehicle manufacturing company known until 14 December 1966 as British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC)...
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    The Austin A90 Atlantic is a British car produced by the Austin Motor Company from 1949 until 1952. It was launched initially as a four-seat convertible...
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    The Standard Motor Company Limited was a motor vehicle manufacturer, founded in Coventry, England, in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay. For many years...
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    mind, Nash Motors negotiated with several European companies. On 5 October 1952, they announced that they had selected the Austin Motor Company (by then...
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  • government created a holding company called British Leyland, later renamed BL in 1978. It incorporated much of the British-owned motor vehicle industry, which...
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    internal combustion engine mostly used in motor cars, created by British automotive manufacturer Austin Motor Company. The precursor of the "B" series engine...
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    See Austin A40 for other A40 models. The Austin A40 Somerset is a motor car which was produced by the Austin Motor Company from 1952 until 1954. The Somerset...
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    Nuffield Organization (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    heirs for either Morris or Austin. Morris Motors Limited merged with The Austin Motor Company Limited in The British Motor Corporation Limited in 1952...
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    Longbridge plant (redirect from Austin aero)
    1906. Austin and his initial workforce of the Austin Motor Company had, in fact, moved into the derelict buildings before this date, as Austin was so...
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    to build and sell Austins (which were now being made under the British Motor Corporation) in Japan under the Austin name. Many Austin 7s were rebuilt as...
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