Pressed Metal Corporation was an Australian automotive body building and assembly operation based in

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History

Pressed Metal Corporation (PMC) was established in the late 1930s as a joint venture between Larke Hoskins, the Austin agents for

, and affiliated company Larke, Neave & Carter, the Chrysler distributor in that state.MGA in Australia
BMC Experience It was created to build motor bodies, at a 22-acre site in the Sydney suburb of

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. PMC subsequently assembled various Austin cars and commercial vehicles, however, following the creation of

BMC Australia British Motor Corporation (Australia) was a motor manufacturing company formed in Australia in 1954 by the merger of the Austin Motor Company (Australia) and Nuffield (Australia). This followed the merger in 1952 of the Austin Motor Company and ...

in 1954, much of the assembly of Austin vehicles was taken over by Austin Distributors in

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. By 1956, the Enfield facility was producing Leyland bus chassis,

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Morris Morris may refer to: Places Australia *St Morris, South Australia, place in South Australia Canada * Morris Township, Ontario, now part of the municipality of Morris-Turnberry * Rural Municipality of Morris, Manitoba ** Morris, Manitob ...

commercial vehicles and Austin A40/ A50/A55

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, with the bodies of the Austins having been designed by PMC itself. PMC subsequently undertook subcontract assembly of various BMC products including

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, MG Midget and

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.Products
BMCLA Heritage Bus body building and assembly was undertaken at PMC's facility in Milperra with the bus assembly operation moved to Revesby in 1965.Pedr Davis, The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring, 1985, page 380 An agreement was reached with Datsun Australia in 1966 to assembly

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s but the arrangement lasted only 18 months. In 1968, Pressed Metal Corporation was purchased by

Leyland Australia British Motor Corporation (Australia) was a motor manufacturing company formed in Australia in 1954 by the merger of the Austin Motor Company (Australia) and Nuffield (Australia). This followed the merger in 1952 of the Austin Motor Company and ...

, Between May 1967 and October 1990, it bodied 2,289 of the 2,603 buses delivered to the State Transit Authority and its predecessors. It also delivered 3,000 buses to private operators. PMC ceased bodying buses in January 1991 with the last being a

Leyland Tiger The Leyland Tiger, also known as the B43, was a mid-engined bus and coach chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1981 and 1992. This name had previously been used for a front-engined bus built between 1927 and 1968. It replaced the Leyland Le ...

for St Ives Bus Services."PMC Sydney to Close" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' November 1990 issue 6/4 page 17 From 1975 the

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and

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were assembled at

, as were Land Rovers,

Leyland National The Leyland National is an integrally-constructed United Kingdom, British high-floor, step-floor single-decker bus manufactured in large quantities between 1972 and 1985. It was developed as a joint project between two UK nationalised industri ...

bus chassis and

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bus chassis. PMC was included in the sale by JRA Limited (formerly Leyland Australia) of its bus businesses to

Clifford Corporation Clifford Corporation was a listed Australian company that purchased several bus manufacturing businesses in the mid-1990s before collapsing in November 1998. History In August 1995 Clifford Corporation purchased the Ansair Ansair was an Aust ...

in July 1996. It was converted to a bus refurbishment facility, subsequently closing in April 1999 following Clifford's collapse."Austral Pacific Group" ''Fleetline'' issue 260 May 1999 page 75

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{{Authority control Bus manufacturers of Australia Motor vehicle assembly plants in Australia Australian companies disestablished in 1999

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