At that moment, Holden almost slammed on the brakes to go back to Cooper and ask if Ferguson was about.

After becoming a subsidiary of GM, the company was named General Motors-Holden's Ltd, becoming Holden Ltd in 1998, with the current name adopted in 2005.

In 1926 General Motors ( Australia ) was established with assembly plants at Newstead, Queensland ; Marrickville, New South Wales ; City Road, Melbourne, Victoria ; Birkenhead, South Australia ; and Cottesloe, Western Australia utilizing bodies produced by Holden Motor Body Builders and imported complete knock down ( CKD ) chassis.

The Holden was launched in 1948, creating long waiting lists extending through 1949 and beyond.

The name " Holden " was chosen in honour of Sir Edward Holden, the company's first chairman and grandson of J. A.

Although officially designated " 48-215 ", the car was marketed simply as the " Holden ".

Holden's Holden FC | FC series was the first to be tested at the Lang Lang, Victoria | Lang Lang proving ground.

The FJ was the first major change to the Holden since its 1948 introduction.

This was the first Holden to be tested on the new Holden Proving Ground based in Lang Lang, Victoria.

The FB became the first Holden that was adapted for left-hand-drive markets, enhancing its export potential, and as such was exported to New Caledonia, New Hebrides, the Philippines and Hawaii.

By 1963, Holden was exporting cars to Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Caribbean.

This was superseded by the Holden Torana in 1967, a development of the Viva ending Vauxhall production in Australia.

The mainstream Holden Special was rebranded the Kingswood, and the basic fleet model, the Standard, became the Belmont.

On 3 March 1969 Alexander Rhea, managing director of General Motors-Holden's at the time, was joined by press photographers and the Federal Minister of Shipping and Transport, Ian Sinclair as the two men drove the two millionth Holden, an HK Brougham off the production line.

Late in HT production, use of the new Tri-Matic automatic transmission, first seen in the LC Torana was phased in as Powerglide stock was exhausted, but Holden's official line was that the HG of 1971 was the first full-size Holden to receive it .< ref > Bebbington ( 1998 ), p. 36.

Holden's Holden HX | HX ( pictured ), was an evolution of the record-selling Holden HQ | HQ, with more than 480, 000 units shifted throughout the car's lifetime.

At this time, the company was producing all of its passenger cars in Australia, and every model was of Australian design ; however, by the end of the decade, Holden was producing cars based on overseas designs.

Besides manufacturing Australia's best selling car, which was exported in significant numbers, Holden continued to export many locally produced engines to power cars made elsewhere.

The round was won by Marcos Ambrose in a fitting conclusion to his 2003 championship win, but made headlines when Ambrose's teammate Russell Ingall and Holden Racing Team rival Mark Skaife spectacularly brought the sport into disrepute with an on-track / off-track stoush.

There are also more subtle allusions made both in the script and in the cinematography of the film version, such as when various characters begin to take on Holden Caulfield-esque characteristics and attitudes.

The 1950 film adaptation, made by Columbia Pictures with direction by George Cukor starred Judy Holliday and William Holden.

Holden made good use of this limited space and designed impressive buildings.

Stephen Holden, music critic for The New York Times, said in his article Rock: British Culture Club, that the popular quartet, " Culture Club blends soul, rock, funk, reggae and salsa into a music that programmatically reconciles white, black and Latin styles ", adding that, " Mr. O ' Dowd made the group's best songs – the Motown-flavoured Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and the Latin-inflected dance tune I'll Tumble 4 Ya – shine like jewels ".

* USS Tiger Shark is the setting for the movie, " Submarine Command " ( 1951 ) starring William Holden as a submarine captain haunted by a life and death decision made during wartime.

He made a second trip to Angola and trained rebels in the Angolan bush for Holden Roberto.

Although the number of competing submissions made was not always large, from nine competition entries, Holden won five first places, three second places and one third place.

Early in her career, Holden made a name for herself by costarring opposite Burt Reynolds in Physical Evidence ( 1989 ), Vanessa Redgrave in the miniseries Young Catherine ( 1991 ) and William Shatner in the TV Movie TekWar: TekLab ( 1994 ).

In late 2008 Holden made changes to the VE Commodore, including the addition of a passenger seatbelt-reminder system.

Two and a half years after Walker's invention was made public, Isaac Holden arrived, independently, at the same idea of coating wooden splinters with sulphur.

Australian made Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores dominate the ranks of taxis in Australia and New Zealand, and are also used as police patrol cars.

A driver's airbag was made standard on all variants, a first for an Australian car, even though the Holden VR Commodore was the first to feature it as an option.

Sir Laurence John Hartnett CBE ( 26 May 18984 April 1986 ) was an engineer who made several important contributions to the Australian automotive industry, and is often called " The Father of the Holden ".

The rest of the early 1970s saw more bad news for Edwards: he made two more movies, Wild Rovers, which starred William Holden, and The Carey Treatment with James Coburn.

At the time of 1870 incorporation, consolidations were also made with the Labette & Sedalia Railway Co. and the Neosho Valley & Holden Railway Co. At this time MKT also acquired the Tebo & Nosho Railroad Co., the St. Louis & Santa Fe Railroad Co., and the Hannibal & Central Missouri Railroad Co.

In 1977, she made her film debut in a minor role as Wendy in the modern Australian film, The FJ Holden directed by Michael Thornhill, and in the same year as Maria in the film adaptation of Henry Handel Richardson's colonial Australian novel, The Getting of Wisdom ( 1977 ) directed by Bruce Beresford.

Modifications were made to the standard Holden 5. 0 litre V8 to produce @ 5200 rpm and 380 Nm @ 4000 rpm.

Holden also developed a 308ci V8-powered version of the GTR XU-1, often referred to as the GTR XU-2, but the car never made it past the prototype stage.

Ross made her 1953 film debut in Forever Female, starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden.

Another concept car, built by Holden and called the Torana TT36, was rumored to have started as a Kappa-based car with a twin-turbocharged V6, but the modifications necessary to accommodate the engine, transmission, and general vehicle size made it necessary to refer to the platform as " based on architecture similar to the Kappa and the Corvette.

He made many films in Europe, including The Poppy Is Also a Flower ( 1965 ), Triple Cross ( 1966 )-a story of Eddie Chapman starring Christopher Plummer, Mayerling ( 1968 ), L ' Arbre de Noel ( US: The Christmas Tree aka When Wolves Cry ) starring William Holden ( 1969 ), and several films with Charles Bronson including Red Sun, Cold Sweat and The Valachi Papers.

Sketches were also made by William Lassell in 1862 using his four-foot telescope at Malta, and by M. Trouvelot from Cambridge, Massachusetts and Edward Singleton Holden in 1875 using the twenty-six inch Clark refractor at the United States Naval Observatory.