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The Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, are a major metropolitan region encompassing a diverse range of residential, commercial, and natural areas.This region is generally considered to stretch from around 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of Melbourne’s Central Business District (CBD) and extends to the foot of the Dandenong Ranges.
The Toyota Tiara was the first Toyota model assembled by AMI. Australian Motor Industries assembled the first Toyota car built outside Japan in April 1963, the Toyota Tiara. [15] Assembly of Toyotas by AMI expanded in the 1960s to include the Crown, Corona, and Corolla at the Port Melbourne facility.
The Toyota Australia Altona Plant opened in 1978, as Toyota's first engine plant outside of Japan. [1] [2] Panel production began in 1983, before full vehicle production commenced in July 1994 with manufacture of the Corolla transferred from Port Melbourne followed in January 1995 by the Camry.
Whelan the Wrecker is a family owned and operated demolition company that has operated from 1892, based in Brunswick in the city of Melbourne. The company became well known through the 1950s and 1970s when signs stating that "Whelan the Wrecker is Here" appeared on many of the grand Victorian era buildings of Melbourne.
Multinet Gas, which provides gas from Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs to eastern Victoria (owned by SP AusNet after acquisition, but continuing to trade under the brand name Multinet Gas). [276] Australian Gas Networks, which provides gas from Melbourne's inner northern suburbs to northern Victoria, as well as the majority of southeastern ...
Durant-Dort Factory One. General Motors traces its roots to the Durant-Dort Carriage Company of Flint named after William C. Durant and Josiah Dallas Dort, and purchased the original Durant-Dort factory (built in 1880 as a woolen mill) on Water Street in May 2013 (and the Durant-Dort office, a National Historic Landmark across the street, as well). [2]
Michigan Central Railroad started purchasing land around 1908 in Corktown, the city's oldest neighborhood, for the new train station, according to HistoricDetroit.org. The depot opened in late ...
Following the TÅhoku earthquake, the President of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, announced a reorganisation of the operations for the area, [6] naming it the third production centre after Chubu and Kyushu. [7] On 1 July 2012, Toyota Motors Tohoku, Kanto Auto Works and Central Motors were merged to form Toyota Motor East Japan.