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Though rated for tax at 14.3 horsepower this larger engined model is sometimes referred to as the Austin 10/12. In 1913, the 10 hp was the cheapest model in the Austin range, costing £260 for a chassis with tyres. [8] The 10 hp (of 14.32-h.p.) was renamed 12–14 hp before midsummer 1915 [9] but production was limited due to the war.
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 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 ...
The 1.6 L (1,622 cc) B series also formed the basis of the "Blue Streak" engine developed by BMC Australia for use in the locally-built Austin Freeway and Wolseley 24/80 models, both in turn variants of the existing Austin A60 Cambridge. The "Blue Streak" was an inline-6 development of the B series, adding two extra cylinders to create a 2.4 L ...
1910–1911 Austin 7 hp; 1922–1939 Austin 7; 1959–1961 Seven, as BMC; 1961–1969 Mini, as BMC; 1980–1990 Metro, as Austin Rover; Small family cars. 1911–1915 Austin 10 hp; 1932–1947 Austin 10; 1939–1947 Austin 8; 1951–1956 A30; 1956–1959 A35; 1956–1962 A35 Countryman; 1954–1961 Nash Metropolitan/Austin Metropolitan; 1958 ...
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When Austin's five-year contract officially ended in 1906 they had made more than 1,500 cars. Wolseley was the largest British motor manufacturer and Austin's reputation was made. The company had been formed in March 1901. By 1 May 1901 Austin had issued his first catalogue. There were to be two models, 5 hp and 10 hp.
The 2023 Forbes "400 Richest People in America" list shows that Austin is home to 10 billionaires. This ranks it as the 10th highest city for billionaire population — although it does rank third ...