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  • Austin

    Discontinued 1905 – 1987 Mainstream & Utility

    Herbert Austin left Wolseley to found the Austin Motor Company at Longbridge, south-west of Birmingham, in 1905. The little Austin Seven of 1922 put Britain on wheels, Austin…

  • Austin-Healey

    Discontinued 1952 – 1972 Sports & Specialist

    Austin-Healey was born at the 1952 Motor Show, when Austin's Leonard Lord saw Donald Healey's Healey Hundred and agreed to build it as the Austin-Healey 100. The big…

  • MG

    Active 1924 – present Sports & Specialist

    MG grew out of Morris Garages, William Morris's Oxford dealership, where Cecil Kimber began selling tuned, specially bodied Morrises in the early 1920s. Built for half a century…

  • Mini

    Active 1959 – present Mainstream & Utility

    Alec Issigonis's Mini was launched by BMC in 1959, badged as the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, and became a marque in its own right under British…