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The original manufacturer was BTR in Australia and then production moved to Malaysia with another company name which presently escapes me...........
Dana Spicer..
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BTR (was Borg Warner) plant was situated in Albury Wodonga which is about half way between Sydney and Melbourne.
They not only built axle /diff assemblies but some fairly sophisticated transmissions ( I think Maserati at one stage but I stand to be corrected. they also supplied Ford Australia.
I had been involved at various times with BTR supplying materials handling equipment with them.
Just the demise of another manufacturing industry in Australia-soon we will not have a car industry in Australia, Ford is finished, Holden going, Toyota gone!
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I found an interesting article The ‘seeds of Holden’s demise’. Where it all went wrong for GMH I rather liked: Hartnett thought building the fenders into the side of the car in a single panel would make the car more economical to produce but GM passed on Hartnett’s design and went instead with a rejected GM prototype.
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“I’m going to argue that the seeds of Holden’s demise were sown right from the start, that Holden was destined to be behind the times for decades”, Loffler says.......... I agree. No car company could possibly survive making separate front and back mudguards. It would not only be very old-fashioned but uneconomical 
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The original manufacturer was BTR in Australia and then production moved to Malaysia with another company name which presently escapes me...........
It's on a label on the rear axle of the current trads.
Adoption of the BTR axle dictated the rear axle width, which widened by an inch or two at the change point. Interesting - that must explain why the rear mudguards of my 2015 4/4 are significantly wider (and I think better-looking) than those of a friend's 4/4, which dates from around 2003.
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Interesting - that must explain why the rear mudguards of my 2015 4/4 are significantly wider (and I think better-looking) than those of a friend's 4/4, which dates from around 2003.
But is the left mudguard the same width as the right mudguard?
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If I remember correctly the Salisbury axle fitted to early Mogs was actually a licence built Dana unit, so in effect MMC have come full circle.
Regarding the BTR plant in Albury, I've a mate who worked there and he was adamant that the only axles made there were HGV axles.
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Interesting - that must explain why the rear mudguards of my 2015 4/4 are significantly wider (and I think better-looking) than those of a friend's 4/4, which dates from around 2003.
But is the left mudguard the same width as the right mudguard? Now that is cruel! Morgans these days are admirably symmetrical, certainly more so than Ferraris of the early 1950s.
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Really interesting and thanks for posting Richard. Never knew the company was established that many years ago.
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BTR (was Borg Warner) plant was situated in Albury Wodonga which is about half way between Sydney and Melbourne.
They not only built axle /diff assemblies but some fairly sophisticated transmissions ( I think Maserati at one stage but I stand to be corrected. they also supplied Ford Australia.
I had been involved at various times with BTR supplying materials handling equipment with them.
Just the demise of another manufacturing industry in Australia-soon we will not have a car industry in Australia, Ford is finished, Holden going, Toyota gone! BTR used to be the British Tyre and Rubber company but like most all of the rest of the UK component manufacturers it was bought out as the industry here declined. At one point it included Dunlop tyres and Hawker Siddely. I dont think it ever had anything to do with Borg Warner. It was a conglomerate in the days when conglomerates run by accountants were fashionable in the city.
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