Holden Our Car 1856 2020

Author : Toby Hagon
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1925483037
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holden: Our Car 1856–2020 written by Toby Hagon and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 164 years the Holden name has helped shape Australia's culture - first as a saddlery supplying a frontier nation with leather goods for horses, then as engineers making machinery and munitions for the war effort, and finally - and most famously - as motor car designers and manufacturers, helping us to explore our country in style and comfort in Australia's own car, Holden. Yet when Holden announced it would cease building cars in Australia after 2017, the four-wheeled heartbeat that has driven Australians for generations stopped dead. Just a few years later, after the original edition of this book, parent company General Motors pulled the plug, selling no Holdens beyond 2020. Holden: Our Car, now revised and featuring a new final chapter, explores and explains the dramatic rise and fall of Holden's empire. Written and researched by father and son Will and Toby Hagon, drawing on scores of interviews with Holden insiders and featuring unseen imagery as well as rare access to the Holden archives - a treasure trove of iconic artwork, advertising, photography and concept designs - this is the stunning story of Holden: Our Car.

Author : Toby Hagon
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781743539019
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holden written by Toby Hagon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Holden announced it would stop building cars in Australia, a four-wheeled heartbeat stopped. After all Holden is our car, an iconic brand whose rise echoed that of our nation. Holden had evolved from a saddle business servicing a frontier nation to a motoring empire building Australian cars for Australian conditions owned by over 50% of Australian families. It didn't matter that Holden had been owned by America's General Motors for 80-plus years, or that most of its cars had been imported for decades. Holden was Australia's car and every one of us had a connection to the brand, to its cars and to its place in shaping our culture.The closure of Holden's manufacturing headquarters in 2017 means the end of the Australian motor industry as we've known it for nearly 120 years. But it's also the end of the road for the dreamers, designers, engineers and passionate car people who made the hundreds of Holden models inspired by this big, tough land. For all the international car brands on our streets today no one ever displaced Holden as the Australian car.Lavishly illustrated with never-before-seen photos, artwork, advertising and design sketches from the Holden archive, this book takes us deep inside the rise and fall of Holden, our car.

Author : Joel Wakely
Publisher : Woodslane Press
ISBN 13 : 9781925868579
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passion for Holden: Commemorative Edition written by Joel Wakely and published by Woodslane Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark the manufacture of the very last Australian Holdens in 2017, Joel Wakely gathered together dozens of fascinating personal stories about many of the models Holden produced since 1948. Joel tells the whole story of Holden, recounting highlights of 69 years of manufacturing all-Australian vehicles and the final closure of Holden in 2020.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646052847
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holden Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William James Holden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922615503
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holden Our Own written by William James Holden and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a drive down memory lane ... A small leather goods and harness-making shop in England became a fledgling horse-drawn carriage and coach-building business in colonial South Australia. It then morphed into Holden, a multinational company and a much-loved Australian icon. Holden endured through overwhelming wartime hardships, depression and adversity to be a respected marque of the Australia automotive industry and recognized around the globe. In this thoroughly researched book, author William Holden goes deep to examine the key branches of the Holden family tree and the Holden car story. HOLDEN our own explores the history, events and personalities that created the Holden business - from its birth to its ultimate sale to automotive giant General Motors and beyond - all through the lens of the Holden family dynasty. This book is a rare offering not only for the motoring enthusiast and Holden aficionados and historians but for every true and proud Australian.

Author : Don Loffler
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862547346
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She's a Beauty! written by Don Loffler and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Loffler's extensively researched original book about the history of the first two Holden models includes stories never told before, photographs never published, and a wealth of technical information. Lay readers and holden buffs alike will enjoy the 375 period photos and the wealth of information about one of the most significant periods in Australian motoring history. Includes 6 new chapters, and 100 new photos never published before.

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ISBN 13 : 9780958781602
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holden Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1988* with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William James Holden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781923004023
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than Holden Our Own: 75 Year Anniversary Edition written by William James Holden and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than Holden our own is an expanded, commemorative edition marking the 75th and 100th anniversary of the first Australian motor body for General Motors built by Holden Motor Body Builder. With more intricate and equally fascinating details, more hitherto unknown facts and more myth busting. In fact, a braver, broader exposé of the legend of the Holden car, the Holden Family, and its amazing enterprises. From very humble beginnings as a simple leather goods merchant in England, right through the courage of the dynasty's young founder in uprooting his whole life and forsaking his family to come to this 'new nation' of Australia. The generations of effort to expand, diversify and adapt to unimaginable conditions - the hardships of war, the constraints of government, the financial hardship of the depression, the ever-challenging competitiveness of rivals, and what was tantamount to bullying foreign ownership, the changing requirements, and unique conditions of this land of extreme climate, rough roads, demanding technology, and the diverse culture and desires of its people. Yet Holden did it. Against the odds. Holden, the family, the name, the car, the business conglomerate, achieved unprecedented, phenomenal success and popularity, and international admiration. Holden our own told, for the first time, the true story. It expounded some of the myths and errors that had thrived for years. More than Holden our own ventures further onto hallowed ground and forbidden territory. It says even more. This book is a rare offering not only for the motoring enthusiast and Holden aficionados and historians but for every true and proud Australian.

Author : William James Holden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781923004030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than Holden Our Own Limited Edition: 75 Year Anniversary Edition written by William James Holden and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This limited edition includes an authentic individually numbered plate with author signature on the inside cover - with only 500 printed a true and valuable collector item. With more intricate and equally fascinating details, more hitherto unknown facts and more myth busting. In fact, a braver, broader exposé of the legend of the Holden car, the Holden Family, and its amazing enterprises. From very humble beginnings as a simple leather goods merchant in England, right through the courage of the dynasty's young founder in uprooting his whole life and forsaking his family to come to this 'new nation' of Australia. The generations of effort to expand, diversify and adapt to unimaginable conditions - the hardships of war, the constraints of government, the financial hardship of the depression, the ever-challenging competitiveness of rivals, and what was tantamount to bullying foreign ownership, the changing requirements, and unique conditions of this land of extreme climate, rough roads, demanding technology, and the diverse culture and desires of its people. Yet Holden did it. Against the odds. Holden, the family, the name, the car, the business conglomerate, achieved unprecedented, phenomenal success and popularity, and international admiration. Holden our own told, for the first time, the true story. It expounded some of the myths and errors that had thrived for years. More than Holden our own ventures further onto hallowed ground and forbidden territory. It says even more. This book is a rare offering not only for the motoring enthusiast and Holden aficionados and historians but for every true and proud Australian.

Author : Steve Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869539719
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holden written by Steve Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Holden A Kiwi Passion" celebrates Holden motor vehicles, New Zealanders' passion for them and the role they've played in our lives. It describes the history of the Holden motor company from its early beginnings in Australia, to its expansion into New Zealand. It features stories of several interesting Holdens and their proud Kiwi owners, mixed with old photographs showing Holdens being used in everyday life, Holden race cars, customised Holdens, as well as Holden car sales brochures, old magazine features, and even Holden memorabilia.