Laurence Hartnett

Sir Lawrence John Hartnett (1898–1986) was an Australian-born engineer, and had been very involved in the development of the first mass-produced Holden, the 48/215 which was launched in 1948.

During the early 1950s he left the company (then known as General Motors' Holden), and in the mid 1950s issued media reports (covered in an issue of the Australian Readers' Digest) about his plan to launch a new automobile company producing a car to be called the Lloyd-Hartnett, which was to be a clone of the Lloyd 600 with a Datsun 6-cylinder engine. The vehicle never made it to commercial production.

The Lloyd-Hartnett was produced commercially and sold for some time in Australia. It had the same engine as the German Lloyd, and the Datsun reference is to a completely different project which did not proceed.

External links

Australian Science Archives Project - Sir Laurence John Hartnett