biography
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Austin (of Longbridge), Herbert Austin, Baron
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| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1941)
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| biography:
| Car manufacturer, born in Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Brampton College, went to Australia in 1884, and worked in engineering shops there. He returned to England in 1893, and in 1895, with the Wolseley Company, produced his first three-wheeled car. In 1905 he opened his own works near Birmingham, its enormous output including the popular ‘Baby’ Austin 7 (1921). He was also Conservative MP for King's Norton (1918–24). |
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