History

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Unique Cars and Parts

• History

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Nicola Romeo

• Born near Naples in 1876, Nicolà Romeo graduated
  in engineering in 1900 and spent some years
  gaining work experience abroad. He then returned
  to Italy where he set up his own company
  manufacturing mining equipment. Assisting the
  Italian government during the first world war, he
  would turn to the manufacture of trucks and
  engines, then following the war he oversaw the
  acquisition of smaller manufacturing concerns to
  form the conglomerate Società Anonima Ing. Nicola
  Romeo Co.

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Aston Martin

• Aston Martin, founded in a small London workshop
  in 1914 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford have
  grown into one of the worlds finest producers of
  luxury sports cars.

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Chrysler Australia

• Between 1962 and 1978 Chrysler Australia had
  released 13 models, the VJ of 1973 being the
  biggest seller, with 90,865 units built. The
  least successful model was the final design, the
  CM, selling only 16,005 units in three years. The
  high point was arguably the release of the
  fastest accelerating Australian production car
  ever made, the awesome E-49 Charger.

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Herbert Austin

• Yet another Australian connection to the British
  car manufacturing industry comes courtesy of
  Herbert Austin. Born in Buckinghamshire, England
  in 1866 the young Herbert travelled to Australia
  in his youth, eventually settling down in
  Melbourne where he managed to get work with
  several engineering firms.
• As fate would have it, he ended up at Fredrick
  Wolseley's factory that manufactured
  sheep-shearing equipment - a move that would soon
  see him designing the first Wolseley automobiles.
  Melbourne was to also prove fruitful to Austin in
  love matters, where while working for Wolseley he
  would meet and later marry a young Helen Dron.