This car at the time had the most spacious passenger cabin of any car on the British market all in a length of 13ft 8in. Vehicle Inquiry Form. Price.

November 1866 at 3, Mill Cottages Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. 1954 was quite significant in that an agreement with the Nash Corporation of America produced the Nash Metropolitan, which used the running gear of the A40 Devon powered by the ‘B’ Series 1200 engine.

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Cost of the four seater touring version was priced at £550.In 1922 the immortal Austin Seven was introduced; thus a whole new class of small car was born. The address was just Austin Motor Company PO Box 41 Longbridge Birmingham, the PO box number never changed only the name of the company in the 100 years.The next milestone was the introduction of the Mini (ADO 15) in August 1959. The desire to lose the Austin name and take Rover "upmarket" led to this project's demise in early 1987. In July of that year the British Motor Corporation (BMC) was born, with a merger of the Austin and Nuffield Organisations, enabling Britain's two leading manufacturers to pool experience and productive capacity.

Mr H Austin, who has been for so long associated with the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Co. of Adderley Park, Birmingham, advises us that he is leaving the Company, and is starting works on his own account situated at Longbridge, near Birmingham, where he will manufacture vehicles which are to be known as the ‘'Austin'’ Cars. The name Austin was dropped at the end of 1989 and in 1990 became Rover Metro with the fitting of the 'K' series engine and later on in 1994 after a face lift it became the Rover 100.Both of these cars shared the same floor-pan and doors. His new car had a vertical engine and, in all but minor detail, was identical to the English-built A further injection of capital was needed in 1906 and William Harvey Du Cros (1846–1918) joined the board of directors.

A 10HP version came in 1939 and paralleled the 8HP until 1947. This triumvirate of Austin, Payton and Engelbach steered the company's fortunes through the interwar years. Make * Model * Steering. Thus the Austin Motor Company was born with £20,000 pounds capital, financial help having been secured from friends. L. Payton, interim chairman then retired four years later on November 28th, 1945, whereupon Leonard Lord became Chairman and Managing Director.By 1952 the Company's factory site now covered 250 acres, with over 19,000 employees.

It grew to 62 acres and gave employment to 8,000 workers who annually produced 25,000 cars. An agreement was made with the Donald Healey Motor Company to produce Austin Healey 100 sports cars. At first Mr Austin will turn out two sizes of tourist cars viz., a 15–20 hp and a 25–30 hp. Foundation of the Company.

The published customer list included Russian Grand Dukes, Princesses, Bishops, high officials of the Spanish government and a long list of Britain's highest nobility.In February 1914 Austin-manufactured bodies in tourer, limousine, landaulette and coupé styles could be provided with engines of 15, 20, 30 and 60 hp.Austin became a public listed company in 1914 when the capital was increased to £650,000. Contact. In 1947 Lord Nuffield purchased the former Victoria Park Racecourse, Zetland, New South Wales as the site for a car assembly plant. So the LC8 was born (LC standing for Leyland Cars) the intention was that it would be a replacement for the Mini, which turned out not be the case. Mr Austin sends us, in a tabulated form, an extremely interesting record gained by the cars which have been turned out by the Wolseley Company during his direction of that Company.

On the engine front it had a variety of types starting with the 'A' series at 1275cc the new 'R' series 1598cc.

It had its own body pressing, assembling and painting plant, it had its own erection shops building engines, gearbox, rear axle and steering, as well as facilities for the final assembly of the finished car.In March 1938 Leonard Lord joined the Company as Works Director.

In 1949, the British Austin company bought the Melbourne based Ruskin Body Works and used the factory to make ute and tourer bodies for fitting to imported Austin A40 chassis.. Nuffield Australia. Trucks and 4 x 4 Gipsy were also being made there at the Cofton Hacket end of the shop along with CKD.To house increased production at the factory in 1961 a multi-storey car park with a total capacity of about 3,300 was built to house the vehicles before dispatch. Versions included cars, commercials and even a tractor, but sales volumes were never enough to fill the vast factory built during wartime. In a quest to expand market share, smaller cars were introduced, the 1661 cc Twelve in 1922 and, later the same year, the With the help of the Seven, Austin weathered the worst of the depression and remained profitable through the 1930s, producing a wider range of cars which was steadily updated by the introduction of all-steel bodies, In the early 1930s, Datsun built cars infringing Austin patents.

Ambience. CAB 2 was up and running so for a time the Morris 1100 was been produced at Cowley and Longbridge.

Sales of the 20hp were disappointing, so in 1921 a smaller version was rushed into production and called the Austin 12. 275, Colombo Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8023. Our address The Austin Company of UK Ltd, Cardinal Point, Park Road, Rickmansworth Herts […] The internal Post Office despatched per week over 52,000 letters and postcards along with 1,500 parcels. This was nine storeys high and measured 114m long and 62m wide and at the time was the largest in the world. The construction used was unique in that it would be built by the Slab process developed by a American company and licensed in the UK by the Wimpy.It was in the summer of 1962 that the Morris version was launched.

Operated in close association with the Health Department was a Rehabilitation workshop. The works are of considerable extent, covering several acres, and are thoroughly suitable for the construction of automobiles of all types.

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