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This was superseded by the Holden Torana in 1967, a development of the Viva ending Vauxhall production in Australia.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

Holden passes the reins of power over the Bluntman and Chronic comic and creates a new comic named Chasing Amy, based on the relationship.

It was named for Elijah E. Holden, a member of the Mormon Battalion who was one of the first settlers of Holden and died while caught in a snowstorm in 1858.

In an example of metafiction, he named his protagonist in Shoeless Joe " Ray Kinsella ", a character from Salinger ’ s uncollected story “ A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All .” Salinger had also used the surname shared by writer and protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye ( Holden Caulfield's friend Richard Kinsella ).

The Arboretum is named for Albert Fairchild Holden, a mining engineer and executive, who had considered making Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum his beneficiary.

He was apprenticed to John Holden, Sir William Davenant's publisher, and possibly later to a bookseller named John Rhodes, who had been wardrobe-keeper at the Blackfriars Theatre.

* Holden Fine Arts Center, named for campus benefactor Paul Holden: communicating arts, music, and visual arts programs, Wisconsin Public Radio studios ( KUWS / WHSA ), Manion Theatre

The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard with William Holden and Gloria Swanson featured a fictional, ageing silent screen actress named Norma Desmond whose name was taken from Taylor's middle name and Mabel Normand's last name as a way to resonate with the widely publicised scandals of almost thirty years before.

* The first draft of the Star Wars novel Red Harvest by Joe Schreiber contained a character named Middish Sunblade, modeled after Holden Caulfield, but was removed from the rewrite.

* In the comic strip Frazz, Frazz's best friend is an 8-year-old named Caulfield, apparently after Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye.

* Ben Affleck's character in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy is named Holden after Holden Caulfield.

Holden Hall, the location of the original Museum of Texas Tech University and now used for classrooms and offices, was named in his honor in 1972.

In 1938, Holden was named dean and director of anthropological, historical, and social-science research.

The first car produced by HSV was the Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV in 1988 ( based on the VL Commodore and not to be confused with the HDT's similarly named Holden VL Commodore SS Group A ).

Reluctantly, the admiral replies no, but at the same time promises Holden command of a new nuclear-powered submarine, also to be named Sea Tiger.

It is named after Edward Singleton Holden.

Guy Holden, an American writer traveling in England, falls madly in love with a woman named Mimi, who disappears after their first encounter.

Eveleigh was named after the estate of Lieutenant J. R. Holden, so called after his birthplace in England.

The story concerns a veteran playboy screenwriter named Richard Benson ( William Holden ) who has been paid to write a screenplay for his boss, Mr. Alexander Myerheim ( Noël Coward ).

In late 1972, Holden released a special edition version of the HQ Kingswood sedan and wagon, named Kingswood Vacationer.

She stood there, watching Holden come in, and she put the piece of toast in her mouth and bit off one corner with a huge chomp of her white teeth.

Ross gets a job lecturing at New York University and starts dating one of his students, Elizabeth ( Alexandra Holden ).

The Great Depression led to a substantial downturn in production by Holden, from 34, 000 units annually in 1930 to just 1, 651 units one year later.

From March 2003, Holden no longer held the number one sales position in Australia, losing ground to Toyota.

After discontinuing the Frontera and Jackaroo models in 2003, Holden was only left with one all-wheel drive model: the Adventra, a Commodore-based station wagon.

On one occasion when Askin was supposed to drive a new Holden from the factory assembly line during a visit, Askin arranged for his driver, Russ Ferguson, to be hidden on the car floor working the controls while Askin held the wheel.

However, when William Holden announced Kelly as the winner, the technicians immediately dismantled the cameras without saying one word to Garland.

Holden did not patent his invention and claimed that one of his pupils wrote to his father Samuel Jones, a chemist in London who commercialised his process.

In 1913 Texas, Pike Bishop ( William Holden ), the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, is seeking retirement with one final score, namely the robbery of a railroad office containing a cache of silver.

The county is divided into forty townships: Alden, Alpha, Bates, Burdette, Campbell, Carlton, Cedar, Como, Florence, Gilbert, Glendale, Grand, Greenleaf, Hiland, Holden, Hulbert, Linn, Logan, Midland, Miller, Mondamin, Ohio, Ontario, Park, Pearl, Plato, Pleasant Valley, Ree Heights, Riverside, Rockdale, Rose Hill, St. Lawrence, Spring Hill, Spring Lake, Wheaton, and York ; and one area of unorganized territory: Northwest Hand.

" Stephen Holden The New York Times stated, " You have the queasy sense that the whole thing is just an elaborate stunt, and in this case an exploitative one.

In response, the two visit Holden McNeil ( Ben Affleck ), who was one of the writers of Bluntman and Chronic, and demand that he give them the royalties of the film.

The one church on the island, the interdenominational Holden Beach Chapel, began as a Bible study in the home of Luther S. Holden and several other resident families on the island.

He has brought one of her favorite actors to meet her — none other than William Holden.

* Alexandra Holden as Meredith, one of Howard's students

Car and Driver praised the performance of the V8 powered, rear-wheel-drive Holden Commodore SS, but noted that even though it was one of the best vehicles that GM offered at the time, it could not be purchased in the United States.

However, Anthony Holden, who was one of the judges against Prisoner of Azkaban for the Whitbread Award, was very negative about the book, calling it tedious and clunkily written, the characters black-and-white and the storylines predictable.

The showroom was all on one level and sitting in front of us were Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Bill Holden and wife ( Brenda Holden ).

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.

Holden worked on the experimental war cemetery at Louvencourt and, according to Geurst and Karol, probably on the one at Forceville that was selected as the prototype for all that followed.

At Piccadilly Circus, one of the busiest stations on the system, Holden designed ( 1925 – 28 ) a spacious travertine-lined circulating concourse and ticket hall below the roadway of the junction from which banks of escalators gave access to the platforms below.