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| Industry | Motor vehicles |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Morris Motors Limited Austin Motor Company Limited |
| Founded | 1952 amalgamating Morris and Austin |
| Founders | |
| Defunct | 1966 |
| Fate | Merged with Jaguar Cars to form British Motor Holdings |
| Successor | British Motor Holdings |
| Headquarters | Longbridge, United Kingdom |
Key people | Leonard Lord George Harriman |
| Products | (include) Morris Minor, Mini, 1100, MGB, Austin-Healey |
The British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC) was a UK-based vehicle manufacturer formed in early 1952 to give effect to an agreed merger of the Morris and Austin businesses.[1]
BMC acquired the shares in Morris Motors and the Austin Motor Company. Morris Motors, the holding company of the productive businesses of the Nuffield Organization, owned MG, Riley, and Wolseley.[1]
The agreed exchange of shares in Morris or Austin for shares in the new holding company, BMC, became effective in mid-April 1952.[2]
In September 1965, BMC took control of its major supplier of bodies, Pressed Steel, acquiring Jaguar's body supplier in the process. In September 1966, BMC merged with Jaguar Cars.[3] In December 1966, BMC changed its name to British Motor Holdings Limited (BMH).[4]
BMH merged, in May 1968, with Leyland Motor Corporation Limited, which made trucks and buses and owned both Standard-Triumph International Limited and the Rover Company to become British Leyland.[5]
- ^ a b Morris-Austin Merger Company Named. The Times, Friday, 29 February 1952; pg. 9; Issue 52248
- ^ City News in Brief. The Times, Monday, 21 April 1952; pg. 9; Issue 52291
- ^ "Jaguar Group of companies is to merge with The British Motor Corporation Ltd., as the first step towards the sitting up of a joint holding company to be called British Motor (Holdings) Limited." Joint merger statement, 11 July 1966 issued at the press conference at the Great Eastern Hotel, London
- ^ British Motor Takes That New Label The Times, Thursday, 15 December 1966; pg. 17; Issue 56815
- ^ "British giants merge | 19th January 1968 | The Commercial Motor Archive". archive.commercialmotor.com. Retrieved 15 September 2023.