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8 unusual facts about Austin Motor Company


1982 Great Synagogue of Rome attack

Eyewitnesses at the scene stated that after the attack, the attackers left the scene in a red Volkswagen and a white Austin.

American Austin Car Company

The company was founded in 1929, and produced motorcars licensed from the British Austin Motor Company from 1930 through 1934, when it filed for bankruptcy.

) The formal connection with UK Austin was severed, though a relationship was maintained.

Bwlch y Groes

Bwlch y Groes is also known as the Hellfire Pass, and was used between and after the wars by the Austin Motor Company and the Standard Triumph Motor Company to test prototype cars and their performance during hillclimbing.

Elliott Museum

Automobile Gallery The collection in this gallery includes Harmon Elliott’s first car, a 1909 Hupmobile, and the 1936 Austin he carried aboard his yacht “Harmonelle” when in Florida.

Jensen 541S

Jensen used their own powerful version of the Austin DS5 4 litre straight-six engine (featuring triple SU carburetors, a high compression Weslake head with custom-made twin exhaust manifolds and an alloy baffled sump/oil cooler) in the 541S.

Narre Warren Fire Brigade

In 1967 a levy was imposed on land owners and $3000 was raised to buy an Austin chassis and cab, which was later fitted by the CFA.

Operation Downfall

The 35 landing beaches were all named for automobiles: Austin, Buick, Cadillac through Stutz, Winton, and Zephyr.


Austin-Ball A.F.B.1

The Austin-Ball A.F.B.1 (Austin Fighting Biplane) was a British fighter plane of World War I built by the Austin Motor Company with design input from Britain's leading fighter ace at the time, Albert Ball.

Langlands foundry

Langlands Foundry was an incubator for a number of engineers including Herbert Austin (1866–1941) who worked as a fitter at Langlands, and went on to both work on the Wolesely Shearing machine and to found the Austin Motor Company.

Nanjing Automobile

The plant at Longbridge was for many years one of the most important car making factories in Europe as well as the largest British-owned car manufacturing plant, making Austin cars for most of the 20th century.

West Burton, Nottinghamshire

On the evening of 24th April 1944, Short Stirling Mk3 LK552 JF-C manufactured by the Austin Motor Company from No. 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF Wigsley in Nottinghamshire took part in a night navigational exercise.


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