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The American Austin Car Company Inc. was an American automobile manufacturing corporation incorporated in the state of Delaware. The company was founded on February 23, 1929, [ 1 ] and produced motorcars licensed from the British Austin Motor Company from 1930 through 1934, after it had filed for bankruptcy protection.
An increased 65.5 mm bore, larger capacity 1711 cc option was available at no extra charge from August 1933. [4] Further details of these engines are in the panels at the right. A three-speed gearbox was supplied at first but a new four-speed Twin-Top [ note 1 ] version was an option from 1932 and became standard in 1933.
The Austin marque started with the Austin Motor Company, and survived a merger with the Nuffield Organization to form the British Motor Corporation, incorporation into the British Leyland Motor Corporation, nationalisation as British Leyland (BL) forming part of its volume car division Austin Morris later Austin Rover, and later privatisation as part of the Rover Group and was finally phased ...
Chevrolet Eagle (1933), to become Chevrolet Master (1933–1942) Chevrolet Mercury (1933) Chevrolet Suburban (1933-1940) Chrysler Royal (1933-1936) DeSoto Airflow (1933–1936) Ford Deluxe Model 40-720 Coupe (1933-1934) Studebaker Land Cruiser (1933-1936) Willys 77 (1933–1942)
The Austin Light Twelve-Four is a car that was produced by Austin from 1933 until 1939. It was replaced in 1939 by a completely new car also called the Austin 12 which kept the same engine. The "12" in the name referred to the taxation horsepower , a British rating which controlled the annual taxation payable to use the car on the road.
The Austin Ten is a small car that was produced by Austin. It was launched on 19 April 1932 [1] and was Austin's best-selling car in the 1930s and continued in production, with upgrades, until 1947. It fitted in between their "baby" Austin Seven which had been introduced in 1922 and their various Austin Twelves which had been updated in January ...
The first name for this car was Austin Sixteen Light Six. In 1930 Light Six was dropped and it was an Austin Sixteen. From 1933 it was deemed necessary to offer an 18 hp engine at no extra charge, in mid 1937 this car's body was replaced by a new shape only available with the 18 hp engine and known as an Austin Eighteen.
The Austin Twelve is a motor car introduced by Austin in 1921. It was the second of Herbert Austin's post World War I models and was in many ways a scaled-down version of his Austin Twenty, introduced in 1919. The slower-than-expected sales of the Twenty brought about this divergence from his intended one-model policy.