Heaps Good History: Episode 5 - “Australian as they come, that’s Holden!”

THIS month, the very last Australian-made Holden will run off the production line at GMH’s Adelaide factory, ending 59 years of continuous car making at Elizabeth. We track the history in episode 5 of our SA history podcast Heaps Good History.

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THIS month, the very last Australian made Holden will run off the production line at GMH’s Adelaide factory, ending 55 years of continuous car making at Elizabeth and a remarkable century in the broader automotive industry in Australia.

The closure will herald a strange new beginning for a company that will continue to sell cars but no longer make them.

More than just a car, Holden has been a way of life for millions of Australians for at least 70 years; a job for generations of South Australians and, together with football, meat pies and kangaroos, a symbol of what it means to be quintessentially “Australian”.

Greg Barila tracks the remarkable evolution of this iconic Aussie brand from saddle-maker to automotive powerhouse in three special episodes of our local history series Heaps Good History.

Listen to all three episodes below or download them via iTunes, the Podcast Republic app for Android and other good podcast apps.

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Originally published as Heaps Good History: Episode 5 - “Australian as they come, that’s Holden!”