Corporate Body

General Motors-Holden's Ltd (1931 - 1990s)

From
1931
Victoria, Australia
To
1990s
Functions
Motor industry

Summary

General Motors-Holden's Ltd. was established in 1931 as a result of a merger which took place between General Motors Australia and Holden Motor Body Builders. In the late 1990s the company became simply Holden Ltd.

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Timeline

 1918 - 1931 Holden's Motor Body Builders
 1926 - 1931 General Motors Australia
       1931 - 1990s General Motors-Holden's Ltd
             1998s - 2020 Holden Ltd

Published resources

Books

  • Bebbington, Terry, 60 Years of Holden: Complete Encyclopedia of all Models (Padstow (N.S.W.) : Haynes Manuals, 2009), 352 pp. Details
  • Hagon, Toby and Hagon, Will, Holden: our car 1856-2017 (Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2016), 280 pp. Details
  • Hartnett, Laurence, Big wheels and little wheels (Hawthorn (Vic.): Gold Star Publications, 1973), 278 pp. Details
  • Holden, William James, Holden our own : the Holden family's story (Newport, NSW: Big Sky Publishing Pty Ltd, 2021), 201 pp. Details
  • Holden, William James, More than Holden our own : 75 year anniversary edition (Newport, NSW: Big Sky Publishing Pty Ltd, 2023), 280 pp. Details
  • Loffler, Don, Holden Days: From the Original 48-215 'FX' to the 1966 HR (Kent Town (S.A.): Wakefield Press, 2012), 276 pp. Details

Conference Papers

  • Scott, D. R., 'Laurence J. Hartnett and the Holden Car', in Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 September to 1 October 2003 edited by Sheridan, Norman (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2003), pp. 152-163., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.339152638265643. Details

Journal Articles

  • Arthur, Ian, 'Making cars in Australia', ASHET News, 10 (4) (2017), 1, 3-6. Details

Resources

See also

Ailie Smith

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