Nissan Motor Manufacturing Company (Australia)

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Nissan Motor Manufacturing Company (Australia)
legal form Ltd.
founding 1976
Seat Dandenong , Australia
Branch Automotive supplier
Website www.nissan.com.au

Nissan Motor Manufacturing Co. (Australia) Ltd. is a former automobile manufacturer currently headquartered in Dandenong , Victoria . The company assembled passenger cars of the Japanese brand Nissan .

history

Nissan automobiles were imported to Australia as early as the 1930s. In the early 1960s, the Australian industrialist Lawrence Hartnett became aware of the brand, took over sales and began in 1966 with the assembly of up to 20,000 Bluebirds annually for the Australian market by the Sydney- based Pressed Metal Corporation .

As early as 1968, Nissan was named as the tenant of the closed Volkswagen Australasia plant . The Volkswagen subsidiary Motor Producers Limited manufactured Datsun vehicles there from 1968. In 1971, Nissan was able to sell twice as many vehicles as Volkswagen in Australia.

The assembly activity was expanded further in 1972.

Following the decision by the Nissan management to comply with the Australian government's target of 85% local production, the Clayton plant was to be converted back to full production (instead of assembling kits). Since Volkswagen no longer wanted to invest in the plant, a full takeover of Motor Producers Limited by Nissan was agreed. The local CKD assembly of Volkswagen vehicles was to be carried out under the responsibility of Nissan from April 1976 until it was finally discontinued in March 1977.

Independent production in Clayton began in 1977 with the Datsun 200B . The Australian model had a different rear axle than its Japanese counterpart.

Other assembled models were Nissan Gazelle and Nissan Pulsar , which were supplemented by Nissan Skyline and Nissan Pintara in 1986 .

Nissan's automobile production in Australia ended in 1991 or 1992. Production had fallen to fewer than 36,000 vehicles in 1991, after nearly 58,000 were made in 1990.

At Nissan Australia, a plant that was built in 1982 continues to produce mainly cast parts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nissan's History in Australia , in: nissandiscounts.com.au.
  2. ↑ No longer runs in: Der Spiegel , issue 46/1968 of November 11, 1968 (accessed on February 5, 2018)
  3. ↑ Phil Matthews: 1965-1969: Australian Volkswagen History .
  4. ^ Phil Matthews: 1970-1975: Australian Volkswagen History .
  5. ↑ Committed to the future, Nissan celebrates 35 years of ongoing local manufacturing , Nissan press release of November 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Phil Matthews: 1975 - 1979: Australian Volkswagen History .
  7. ^ James Stanford: 12 orphan cars built in Australia. In: wheelsmag.com.au. August 21, 2015, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Ron Hammerton: Nissan plans survives Aussie auto wipeout. In: goauto.com.au. February 25, 2014, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b Takahiro Fujimoto, "Toyota Motor Manufacturing Australia in 1995: an emergent global strategy", in: Actes du GERPISA No. 26 (1998), pp. 37-62.
  10. ^ Nissan celebrates 35 years of manufacturing in Australia , in: drive.com.au of November 16, 2017.