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This was superseded by the Holden Torana in 1967, a development of the Viva ending Vauxhall production in Australia.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

The second generation Holden Gemini from 1985 was also based on an Isuzu design, although, its manufacture was undertaken in Australia.

The second generation Holden Commodore | Commodore ( Holden VN Commodore # Calais | VN Calais pictured ) overcame the previous generation's width problems.

After a visit to the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Mayor-President Kip Holden unveiled plans to pursue a sister city agreement with a second Taiwanese city, Taipei.

Holden responded by designing Senate House, the current headquarters of the university, and at the time of completion the second largest building in London.

* Touring car racing-Peter Brock and Jim Richards won their second consecutive Bathurst 1000, driving a Holden Torana

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.

Prior to the 1988 onwards second generation Commodore, the Holden was positioned a full class below the full-size Falcon.

The Holden VN Commodore of 1988 and subsequent second generation models took their bodywork from the larger Opel Senator B and new Opel Omega A.

After Holden's approval rating steadily dropped during the second half of his term, McCaskill defeated Holden in the Democratic primary, marking the first primary loss for a sitting governor in nearly two decades.

Holden won re-election to a second term by defeating Republican nominee Fred Levering 57 %- 43 %.

Former actor and 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan had his wedding reception with second wife Nancy Reagan at the Toluca Lake home of actor ( and best man ) William Holden on March 4, 1952.

The second and subsequent films starred Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy, Fay Holden as Mrs. Hardy, Cecilia Parker as Andy's older sister Marian Hardy, and Ann Rutherford as Andy's girlfriend Polly Benedict.

Holden also ran unsuccessfully for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1979 federal election in the riding of Dollard placing a distant second place.

The second generation was marketed in Australia as the XC-series Holden Tigra, only with the 1. 8 L engine.

In a second recall dated 21 July 1995, Holden stated cars produced from 26 May to 16 June 1995 may have been built with a kink in the wire of the front seat track locking mechanism, leading to the seat moving forward in the event of a collision.

* Nicole de Boer as Maggie Holden, a later girlfriend for Billy-K after Daisy left ( second season only, however she did appear in a first season episode titled " Toxic Love ")

After the development of the HQ series, Holden intended to replace the second generations cars with a heavily revised WA series.

The second generation Piazza was not marketed as a Holden in Australia, possibly due to lack of sales of its predecessor.

It toured the US extensively from 2004 through 2007, featuring Darren Holden as lead Piano Man, and Matt Wilson, James Fox and Matthew Friedman as second Piano Men.

In his home country Australia in 1976 Schuppan won the Rothmans International Series Formula 5000 series, driving a Lola T332-Chevrolet and placed second in the 1976 Australian Grand Prix, only half a second behind John Goss driving a Matich A53-Repco Holden, the race run under F5000 regulations at Sandown Park in Melbourne.

In 2007, Holden published Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom ( ISBN 0743294823 ), a journal of his second stint as a professional player, between the 2005 and 2006 WSOP events.

* 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U. S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

: Federal troops, led by Col. Kirk and requested by NC governor Holden, were sent to extinguish racial violence.

** In North Carolina, William Holden becomes the first governor of a U. S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

Holden served as State Treasurer from 1993 to 2001 and as governor from 2001 to 2005.

Stevens told W. W. Holden, the Republican governor of North Carolina, in December 1866, " It would be best for the South to remain ten years longer under military rule, and that during this time we would have Territorial Governors, with Territorial Legislatures, and the government at Washington would pay our general expenses as territories, and educate our children, white and colored and both.

* Memoirs of W. W. Holden ( 1911 ), North Carolina Scalawag governor

Holden was the first governor in American history to be impeached, convicted, and removed from office.

* William Woods Holden ( 1818 – 1892 ), governor of North Carolina, 1865 and 1868 – 1871

Republican governor William Woods Holden outlawed Lowrie and his men in 1869, and offered a $ 12, 000 reward for their capture: dead or alive.