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This was superseded by the Holden Torana in 1967, a development of the Viva ending Vauxhall production in Australia.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

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.

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.

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.

The Holden 50-2106 utility launched in 1951, three years after the Holden 48-215 | 48-215 sedan.

The HQ framework led to a new generation of two-door Monaros, and, despite the introduction of the similar sized competitors, the HQ range became the top-selling Holden of all time, with 485, 650 units sold in three years.

The three most popular new cars in 2006 ( excluding sales of ex-overseas vehicles ) were the Holden Commodore ( 5, 375 ), the Toyota Corolla ( 5, 297 ) and the Ford Falcon ( 4, 199 ).

The Bradmans lived in the same modest, suburban house in Holden Street, Kensington Park in Adelaide for all but the first three years of their married life.

Field's professional achievements also include winning three Emmy Awards: for her role in the TV film Sybil ( 1976 ); her guest-starring role on ER in 2000 ; and for her starring role as Nora Holden Walker on ABC's series Brothers & Sisters in 2007.

In his statement to police three hours later, Chapman stated, " I ’ m sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book.

Initially, Holden ran the drawing office and worked as the senior design architect under the three principal architects in France and Belgium ( Edwin Lutyens, Reginald Blomfield and Herbert Baker ).

With the introduction of generation three in 1997, Holden broadened the Commodore's export plans.

Added that the Commodore architecture was considered an unsuitable base for utility and long-wheelbase models, Holden was left with only a sedan, albeit one in three levels of luxury: a base, SL, and SL / E.

The English also dominated the individual competition, with an Englishman winning the individual title 35 times, including three wins by Jack Holden ( 1933 – 1935 ).

The last Holden Monaro-badged coupe was purchased by Emerald, Queensland businessman Darryl Mattingley for A $ 187, 355. 55 — around three times the normal retail price, on 19 February 2006.

In effect, all three manufacturers bowed to this pressure, and Holden would postpone its introduction of a V8 Torana for two years until the release of the slightly larger LH series Torana in 1974.

Putnam was appointed to serve as one of three judges of the Northwest Territory after Samuel Holden Parsons died.

Holden have issued three JM Apollo-related recalls.

; Allen Bamff: Appeared in three episodes as an unconfident Car Salesmen promoting his self titled car yard " Allen Bamff Holden " ( played by Francis Greenslade ).

Ultimately, Peter Brock would prove to be the ace of the Group C era, by having achieved an incredible two Bathurst hat-tricks ( three consecutive Bathurst wins twice ) while at the wheel of both the Holden Torana and soon-to-be-released all new Commodore, in 1978 – 1980 and again in 1982 – 1984.

Imported turbocharged cars, most notably Ford Sierra RS Cosworths and Nissan Skyline GT-R, dominated the racing during this period, with the Holden Commodore managing to claim three wins during this era.

The HRT's strategy had claimed a popular and long-awaited Bathurst victory for Holden, after three seasons of Sierra domination.

The names on the original three IPX patents are Paul Baran, Charles Corbalis, Brian Holden, Jim Marggraff, Jon Masatsugu, David Owen and Pete Stonebridge.

He is one of only three drivers to win Bathurst in both a Ford and a Holden ( the others are Craig Lowndes and Tony Longhurst ).