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Austin Rover Group

Index Austin Rover Group

The Austin Rover Group (abbreviated ARG) was a British motor manufacturer. [1]

76 relations: Abingdon-on-Thames, Alan Pilkington, Austin Allegro, Austin Ambassador, Austin Maestro, Austin Maxi, Austin Metro, Austin Montego, Austin Motor Company, Automotive industry, Birmingham, BMW, Brand, British Aerospace, British Leyland, British Motor Corporation, Canley, Car, DAF Trucks, Derek Robinson (trade unionist), Ford Granada (Europe), Ford Motor Company, Ford Sierra, Four-wheel drive, General Motors, Graham Day, Harold Musgrove, Holding company, Honda, Honda Ballade, Honda Legend, Jaguar Cars, Jaguar Land Rover, Land Rover, Land Rover Defender, Land Rover Discovery, Land Rover Group, Leyland Bus, Leyland Tractors, Leyland Trucks, Longbridge, Marshall, Sons & Co., MG Cars, MG MGB, MG Rover Group, Michael Edwardes, Mini, Morris Ital, Morris Marina, Morris Motors, ..., Nanjing Automobile, Nationalization, Princess (car), Rover (marque), Rover 200 / 25, Rover 800 Series, Rover Company, Rover Group, Rover SD1, Ryder Report (British Leyland), Speke, Sterling (marque), Tata Motors, Triumph Acclaim, Triumph Dolomite, Triumph Motor Company, Triumph TR7, Unipart, United States, Vauxhall Carlton, Vauxhall Cavalier, Vehicle identification number, Volkswagen Golf, Volvo Buses, West Midlands (county), 21st century. Expand index (26 more) »

Abingdon-on-Thames

Abingdon-on-Thames, also known as Abingdon on Thames or just Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England.

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Alan Pilkington

Alan Pilkington (born 1966) is a British engineer, and Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, known for his on the Technology management, Operations management, Manufacturing strategy and Enterprise engineering.

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Austin Allegro

The Austin Allegro is a small family car that was manufactured by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1973 until 1982.

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Austin Ambassador

The Austin Ambassador is a large family car that was introduced by Austin in March 1982.

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Austin Maestro

The Austin Maestro is a five-door hatchback small family car (and two-door van derivative) that was produced from 1982 to 1987 by British Leyland, and from 1988 until 1994 by Rover Group.

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Austin Maxi

The Austin Maxi is a medium-sized 5-door hatchback car that was produced by Austin and later British Leyland between 1969 and 1981. It was the first British five-door hatchback to be fitted with a five-speed transmission.

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Austin Metro

The Metro is a city car that was produced by British Leyland (BL) and, later, the Rover Group from 1980 to 1998.

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Austin Montego

The Austin Montego is a British family car that was produced by British Leyland from 1984 until 1988, and then by Rover Group from 1988 until 1995.

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Austin Motor Company

The Austin Motor Company Limited was a British manufacturer of motor vehicles, founded in 1905 by Herbert Austin.

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Automotive industry

The automotive industry is a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles, some of them are called automakers.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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BMW

BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke in German, or Bavarian Motor Works in English) is a German multinational company which currently produces luxury automobiles and motorcycles, and also produced aircraft engines until 1945.

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Brand

A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes of the customer.

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British Aerospace

British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer.

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British Leyland

British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings.

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British Motor Corporation

The British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC) was a UK-based vehicle manufacturer, formed in early 1952 to give effect to an agreed merger of the Morris and Austin businesses.

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Canley

Canley is a suburban neighbourhood located in southwest Coventry, England.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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DAF Trucks

DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of Paccar.

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Derek Robinson (trade unionist)

Derek Robinson (1927 – 31 October 2017) was a British trade unionist.

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Ford Granada (Europe)

The European Ford Granada is a large executive car manufactured by Ford Europe from 1972 until 1994.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Ford Sierra

The Ford Sierra is a mid-size car or large family car that was built by Ford Europe from 1982 to 1993.

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Four-wheel drive

Four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, refers to a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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Graham Day

Sir Judson Graham Day, (born 3 May 1933) is a British-Canadian business executive, lawyer and corporate director who now lives in Hantsport, Nova Scotia.

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Harold Musgrove

Harold John Musgrove (born 1930) was the former chairman of British Leyland's Austin Rover division between 1982–1986 and worked in several roles for the NHS from 1991–2001.

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Holding company

A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock.

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Honda

is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and power equipment.

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Honda Ballade

The Honda Ballade is a subcompact automobile built by Honda of Japan.

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Honda Legend

The Honda Legend is a V6-engined full-size/ mid-size luxury/ executive car produced by the Japanese automaker Honda since 1985 that currently serves as its flagship vehicle and provides the basis for the Acura Legend, RL and RLX the flagship vehicle of Honda's luxury Acura division in North America.

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Jaguar Cars

Jaguar is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England and owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008.

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Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC is the holding company of Jaguar Land Rover Limited, a British multinational automotive company with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom, and a subsidiary of Indian automotive company Tata Motors.

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Land Rover

Land Rover is a car brand that specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles, owned by British multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, which has been owned by India's Tata Motors since 2008.

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Land Rover Defender

The Land Rover Defender (initially called the Land Rover Ninety and Land Rover One Ten) is a British four-wheel drive off-road vehicle developed in the 1980s from the original Land Rover Series which was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in April 1948.

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Land Rover Discovery

The Land Rover Discovery is a mid-size luxury SUV, from the British manufacturer Land Rover.

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Land Rover Group

Land Rover Group (LRG) was a division of British Leyland (BL) and later the Rover Group that was in existence between 1981 and 1987.

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Leyland Bus

Leyland Bus was a British bus and train manufacturer.

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Leyland Tractors

Leyland tractors was created after the merger of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) with Leyland Motors to form British Leyland in 1968.

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Leyland Trucks

Leyland Trucks is the leading medium and heavy duty truck manufacturer in the United Kingdom, and is based in the town of Leyland, Lancashire.

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Longbridge

Longbridge is an area of south-west Birmingham, England.

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Marshall, Sons & Co.

Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848.

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MG Cars

MG, the initials of Morris Garages, is a British automotive marque registered by the now defunct MG Car Company Limited,The M.G. Car Company Limited, incorporated 21 July 1930.

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MG MGB

The MGB is a two-door sports car manufactured and marketed by the British Motor Corporation (BMC), later British Leyland, as a four-cylinder, soft-top roadster from 1962 until 1980.

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MG Rover Group

The MG Rover Group was the last domestically owned mass-production car manufacturer in the British motor industry.

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Michael Edwardes

Sir Michael Edwardes (born 11 October 1930) is a British-South African business executive.

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Mini

The Mini is a small economy car produced by the English-based British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 until 2000.

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Morris Ital

The Morris Ital is a medium sized saloon car that was built by British Leyland (BL) from 1980 until 1984.

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Morris Marina

The Morris Marina is a car that was manufactured by Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1971 until 1980.

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Morris Motors

Morris Motors Limited was a British privately owned motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles.

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Nanjing Automobile

Nanjing Automobile is a state-owned enterprise with a history that dates from 1947, businessweek.com making it the oldest of the Chinese automobile manufacturers bbc.com, Saturday, 23 July 2005, 09:36 GMT although the comparatively younger FAW Automotive was the first to actually make cars.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Princess (car)

The Princess is a family car which was produced in the United Kingdom by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1975 until 1981 (1982 in New Zealand.) The car inherited a front-wheel drive / transverse engine configuration from its predecessor, the BMC ADO17 range.

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Rover (marque)

Rover is a British automotive marque used between 1904 and 2005.

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Rover 200 / 25

The Rover 200 Series, and later the Rover 25, are a series of small family cars that were produced by British manufacturer Rover from 1984 to 2005.

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Rover 800 Series

The Rover 800 Series is an executive car range manufactured by the Austin Rover Group subsidiary of British Leyland, and its successor the Rover Group from 1986 to 1999.

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Rover Company

The Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company that operated from its base in Solihull in Warwickshire.

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Rover Group

The Rover Group plc was the name given in 1986 to the British vehicle manufacturer BL (formerly British Leyland), which had been state-owned company since 1975.

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Rover SD1

The Rover SD1 is both the code name and eventual production name given to a series of executive cars built by the Specialist Division (later the Jaguar-Rover-Triumph division) of British Leyland (BL), under the Rover marque.

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Ryder Report (British Leyland)

The Ryder Report was the official report produced for the Government of the United Kingdom in 1975 by Sir Don Ryder, newly appointed head of the UK's National Enterprise Board who was given the task of reporting on the British Leyland Motor Corporation and listing recommendations for its future.

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Speke

Speke is an area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, close to the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley.

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Sterling (marque)

Sterling was a brand name of automobile marketed in the United States by Austin Rover Cars of North America (later renamed Sterling Motor Cars), a division of the Rover Group company of the UK.

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Tata Motors

Tata Motors Limited (formerly TELCO, short for Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company) headquartered in Mumbai, is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company and a member of the Tata Group.

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Triumph Acclaim

The Triumph Acclaim was a front-wheel drive medium-sized family car made by British Leyland (BL) from 1981 to 1984.

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Triumph Dolomite

The Triumph Dolomite popular small saloon car was produced by the Triumph Motor Company division of the British Leyland Corporation in Canley, Coventry between October 1972 and August 1980.

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Triumph Motor Company

The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Triumph TR7

The Triumph TR7 is a sports car which was manufactured from September 1974 to October 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company (which was part of British Leyland) in the United Kingdom.

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Unipart

Unipart Group is a multinational logistics, supply chain, manufacturing and consultancy company headquartered in Cowley, Oxfordshire, England.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vauxhall Carlton

The Vauxhall Carlton is a series of large family car/executive car sold in two distinct generations by the Vauxhall division of GM Europe between 1978 and 1994.

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Vauxhall Cavalier

The Vauxhall Cavalier was a large family car sold primarily in the UK by Vauxhall from 1975 to 1995.

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Vehicle identification number

A vehicle identification number (VIN) is a unique code, including a serial number, used by the automotive industry to identify individual motor vehicles, towed vehicles, motorcycles, scooters and mopeds, as defined in ISO 3779:2009.

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Volkswagen Golf

The Volkswagen Golf is a compact car produced by the German manufacturer Volkswagen since 1974, marketed worldwide across seven generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates – such as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada (Mk1 and Mk5), and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico (Mk1).

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Volvo Buses

Volvo Buses (Formal name: Volvo Bussar AB) (stylized as VOLVO) is a subsidiary and a business area of the Swedish vehicle maker Volvo, which became an independent division in 1968.

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West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.

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21st century

The 21st century is the current century of the Anno Domini era or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Rover_Group

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