British Motor Corporation (Australia)

British Motor Corporation (Australia) was a motor manufacturing company formed in Australia in 1954 by the merger of the Austin Motor Company (Australia) and Nuffield (Australia).[1] This followed the merger in 1952 of the Austin Motor Company and the Nuffield Group in the United Kingdom to form the British Motor Corporation.[1] Following further corporate changes in the UK in the late 1960s, BMC Australia was absorbed into the newly established British Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia,[1] the name of which became Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia in 1972,[2] and then JRA Limited in March 1983.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Davis, Pedr (1986), The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring, The Macquarie Library, pp. 62–63, ISBN 9780949757357
  2. ^ a b The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring, pp. 272-273