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| ChFalkensteiner | Nov 1 2009, 11:40 AM |
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This Birmingham company founded by Frederick York Wolseley in 1889 produced sheep-shearing machines originally. It branched out into car making under engineer Herbert Austin, who left the company to found his own in 1905. Wolseley then became a subsidiary of the aircraft company Vickers and offered a wide range of both small and large cars. Most components were made in house, which caused serious debt problems and led to the eventual purchase of the company by Morris in 1927. Subsequent Wolseley models were mostly more up-market versions of similar Morris cars. Production continued in this manner after WW II and beyond the 1952 merger which created the British Motors Corporation. During that era Wolseley cars were widely used by police forces in the UK. Further mergers resulted in the creation of British Leyland in 1968, and further rationalization resulted in the discontinuation of the Wolseley marque in the early 1970s. Few small-scale models exist of Wolseley cars. Charbens made a model of an early example, Budgie did a 1950s police car, and Matchbox produced a model of the late 1950s Wolseley 1500. With the recent emergence of producers of 1:76 scale models of vintage British cars new small-scale models of Wolseley cars are to be expected, but so far none have appeared. |
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