The Austin Motor Company was founded by the late Lord Austin (then Mr Herbert Austin) in 1905 with a capital of £15,000. Austin was not new to motor manufacture for he had previously been with the Wolseley Company and had designed his first car - a 3 wheeler - in 1895.
From that small beginning - the first factory occupied 2.5 acres and produced 120 cars a year. The company has expanded until today it is one of the biggest in Europe, producing vehicles at the rate of over 3,000 a week. The payroll has grown from 270 to 18,000 people. In the intervening years it has produced some famous motor cars, notably the Austin Seven, which introduced a new standard of small car motoring for the family man.
Today the company is controlled by one of the most dynamic figures in British industry, Mr L.P. Lord.
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