British Motor Corporation was a motor manufacturing company formed in Australia in 1954 by the merger of the Austin Motor Company and Nuffield Pty Ltd. This followed the merger in 1952 of the Austin Motor Company and the Nuffield Group in the United Kingdom to form the British Motor Corporation. In 1968, following further corporate changes in the UK, it was renamed Leyland Motor Corporation Australia which continued until closure in 1982. In 1949, the British Austin company bought the Melbourne based Ruskin Body Works and used the factory to make pick-up and tourer bodies for fitting to... imported Austin A40 chassis. In March 1950 Nuffield Australia opened a new, 57-acre assembly and building factory in Zetland, New South Wales on the site of the Victoria Park Racecourse. The facility was established to assemble Morris Minor and Morris Oxford models which had previously been imported into Australia. In 1954 the Austin Motor Company of Australia and Nuffield Australia merged to form British Motor Corporation with the Nuffield facility at Victoria Park becoming the group headquarters of the new company.
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