page_title: Austin Motor Company
section_title: Independent Austin 1905-1952
hierarchical_section_title: Austin Motor Company / History / Independent Austin 1905-1952
caption_attribution_description: 1954 Austin A30 at the Great West Road Run rally at Aust Services, Aust, Bristol, England. Taken by Adrian Pingstone in October 2004 and released to the public domain.
context_page_description: Austin was a British car manufacturing company that began production in 1905. The company merged with Morris in 1952, becoming the lead partner in British Motor Corporation. This became British Leyland and then Rover Group. They began phasing the brand out in 1987; by 1989 all Rover Group cars had been cleared of Austin branding. The name has now passed into the ownership of Nanjing Motor Corporation, who have stated an interest in reviving it.
context_section_description: The company was started in 1905 by Herbert Austin, originally making cars at a factory in Rotherham, Yorkshire before moving to Longbridge, Birmingham. In the First World War Austin made aircraft for the Army and Navy, it was this work which led to the rapid expansion of the company; following the war the company stopped making aircraft. The company became Britain's biggest car maker.
caption: A 1954 Austin A30
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