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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...
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    The Austin Motor Company Limited was an English manufacturer of motor vehicles, founded in 1905 by Herbert Austin in Longbridge. In 1952 it was merged...
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    Swift of Coventry called the Austin 7 hp. After this they returned to bigger cars.[citation needed] In 1920 Sir Herbert Austin commenced working on the concept...
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  • District, Worcestershire, near Birmingham, England. Car manufacturer Herbert Austin lived there for 31 years. It later became a residential school and is...
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    Longbridge plant (redirect from Austin aero)
    the venture failed, and the site was repossessed by the bank in 1901. Herbert Austin, who was born in Buckinghamshire and raised in Yorkshire, escaped his...
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  • Jean-Herbert Austin (born 23 February 1950) is a Haitian retired footballer. Austin attended college at New York University, where he was twice named to...
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    founded in early 1901 by the Vickers Armaments in conjunction with Herbert Austin. It initially made a full range, topped by large luxury cars, and dominated...
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  • during World War I Herbert Austin (1866–1941), English car maker, founder of the Austin Motor Company and Member of Parliament Herbert Backe (1896–1947)...
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    1984 film Dune, by Matt Keeslar in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, and by Austin Butler in the 2024 film Dune: Part Two. Sixteen-year-old Feyd...
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  • Brigadier-General Herbert Henry Austin CB CMG DSO (1 June 1868 – 27 April 1937) was a British Army officer, colonial engineering surveyor and author. Austin was the...
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    Austin Village is a First World War housing estate of prefabs between Longbridge and Northfield, Birmingham. Herbert Austin, who created the Austin Motor...
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    The Austin Twelve is a motor car introduced by Austin in 1921. It was the second of Herbert Austin's post World War I models and was in many ways a scaled-down...
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    engines, associated equipment and armaments. The project was headed by Herbert Austin and developed by the Air Ministry under the internal project name of...
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    Kings and Arthur Waite (Herbert Austin's Australian son-in-law and competitions manager). Before the First World War, Austin had produced a range of expensive...
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  • magnate Sir Herbert Austin. The vehicle, a Type 14, was never meant for the road or production, but was a part of a patent dispute as Austin saw a number...
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  • single cylinder) that is fitted to the first British motorboat. 1895: Herbert Austin, an employee at Wolseley Sheep Shearing Company, becomes interested...
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    rpm. Baker, John. "Austin Marine Engines". Austin Memories. Archived from the original on August 21, 2015. In 1910 Herbert Austin decided to build a Marine...
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  • Wolseley in Australia which was managed by Herbert Austin who went on to manufacture Wolseley and Austin cars. Frederick Wolseley's innovations to sheep...
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    as typical. His son Alfred Herbert Austin (1870–1930), pastor at Mosman, married Charlotte Elizabeth Fullerton. Edwin Austin (died 1915) married the daughter...
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    These early designs were by Austin, founder of this business for Vickers. Austin left Wolseley in 1905 and founded his own Austin business. source source...
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    Previous Herbert Austin cars for Wolseley Motors, which Austin founded, kept horizontal engines after vertical engines became the norm. Herbert Austin allowed...
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  • African cricketer Helen Austin (disambiguation), multiple people Henry Austin (disambiguation), multiple people Herbert Austin (1866–1941), British entrepreneur...
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    of the Seven. Others say it was a copy, but not an authorized one. Herbert Austin was definitely concerned about the possibility of Datsun infringing...
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  • The Wolseley business began in 1887 making sheep shearing machinery. Herbert Austin, who had worked on Wolseley's shearing machinery development in Melbourne...
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    however, the first all-British 4-wheel car had been designed and built by Herbert Austin as manager of The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company. In 1901,...
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    shares in his business and he privately bought Wolseley, founded by Herbert Austin, which until a few years earlier had been Britain's largest car manufacturer...
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    caskets, and other products.: 295–301  Henry Ford and, in the UK, Herbert Austin were introducing nitrocellulose lacquers at the same time, and soon...
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    business where a few years later Herbert Austin, a new immigrant from England, was to serve an apprenticeship. Austin's uncle was works manager. Having...
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  • noted historian George Arnold Wood. She married the Reverend Alfred Herbert Austin on 21 March 1903 in Randwick Presbyterian Church. After marriage the...
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  • Election Member Party Notes 1918 Sir Herbert Austin Coalition Conservative later Baron Austin 1922 Conservative 1924 Robert Dennison Labour 1929 Lionel...
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