1/29Staff in front of the Holden and Frost saddlery and motor car parts factory building in Grenfell Street, Adelaide, in 1914. Pic: Mortlock Library
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2/29Queen Elizabeth II inspects the General Motors-Holden car plant at Elizabeth accompanied by Mr J. Kingston Stuart (left) on February 21, 1963.
3/29A number of women work on the spring frames of vehicle seats in a section of Holden’s Motor Body Builders workshop.
4/29Holden logo brand badge
5/29World War II in South Australia. Female munitions workers work on parts of the Beaufort Bomber aeroplane’s wings at the General Motor’s-Holden factory at Woodville in January 1943. Pic:The Advertiser/Krischock
6/29A draughtsman works in the development department at Holden’s Motor Body Builders factory in Woodville.
7/29Workers at a Holden factory building anti-tank guns during World War II.
8/29A 1934 Light Six Vauxhall Roadster
9/29Holden’s factory at 400 King William St, Adelaide, complete with cars and a horse and cart parked out the front.
10/29Apprentice fitter and machinist operating a milling machine on January 26, 1954, at Holden’s Woodville factory. Pic: Vic Wright
11/29An ‘automatic hand’ lifting a newly-pressed Holden fender from a giant press at the General Motors-Holden plant in Woodville in September 1958. Pic: General Motors Holden’s Pty. Ltd. Public Relations Dept, Melbourne
12/29General Motors-Holden’s employees leaving the Woodville plant on February 10, 1972, at 4pm, after being stood down because of the Victorian power dispute. Pic: Staff photographer SL
13/29A model leaning over the ‘Red Engine’ of the Holden EH motor car.
14/29An aerial view of General Motors-Holden’s factory in Elizabeth on November 3, 1988. It was set for expansion. Pic: General Motors-Holdens Automotive Ltd. Elizabeth
15/29Holden car bodies nearing completion in the Body Shop at General Motors-Holden’s Woodville factory in 1958. Pic: General Motors Holden’s Pty. Ltd. Public Relations Dept, Melbourne
16/29A union official addresses a meeting on July 9, 1973. It was attended by more than 2500 General Motors-Holden workers at the Elizabeth plant, deciding on whether to accept the latest company offer on wages and improved conditions.
17/29Holden History 17 (rgb) - Workers on FJ Holden motor car factory production line. automobile historical /Automobiles/Holden
18/29An FJ Holden motor car is loaded onto a ship ready for export.
19/29The FJ Holden motor car.
20/29Prime Minister Ben Chifley at the launch of the first Holden 48-215 (later commonly called FX) in Melbourne in November 1948.
21/29Welding at the General Motors-Holden Woodville factory.
22/29Women working in Holden’s Motor Body Builders factory at Woodvillle in February 1928. Pic: History Trust of South Australia, glass negatives collection
23/29The EJ sedan, the millionth Holden to come off assembly line at the General Motors-Holden factory in 1962.
24/29Seventy new FE Holden motor car bodies leave the General Motors-Holden factory at Woodville on a special train bound for the eastern states on July 21, 1956.
25/29Woodville footballer George Roache at work as an apprentice tool-smith at the General Motors-Holden factory on May 30, 1966. Pic: Barry O’Brien
26/29Men working in the forge in the Holden’s Motor Body Builders workshop around 1925-1930.
27/29The launch of the FJ Holden motor car.
28/29Staff posing at the front of the Holden’s Motor Body Builders premises at 400 King William Street, Adelaide. A researcher has suggested that this image was taken on September 13, 1919, and that the building was located on the the former premises of F.T. Hack Co. Body Works, which was erected in 1913, purchased by Holden Motor Body Builders in 1917, and pulled down when Holden’s four-storey building was extended.
29/29View of workers on the body production line at General Motors-Holden’s Woodville plant in 1929-30. Pic: Supplied
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