The Holden Birkenhead Plant was a vehicle manufacturing facility owned by General Motors Australia, and later Holden in Birkenhead, Adelaide, Australia from 1926 until 1965.
History
General Motors Australia opened the Birkenhead Plant in 1926.[1] The plant closed in 1931 after General Motors Australia merged Holden's Motor Body Builders with staff moving to the Holden Woodville Plant.[2] It reopened in 1938.[3] The plant closed in 1965.[4]
References
- GENERAL MOTORS The Daily Telegraph, 11 December 1926, retrieved 27 September 2025^
- General Motors Join Holden's at Woodville The Mail, 2 May 1931, retrieved 27 September 2025^
- General Motors-Holden's Expansion Goulburn Valley Stock & Property Journal, 2 May 1931, retrieved 27 September 2025^
- Piece of Port history to feature in new harbourside development The Adelaide Review, 10 February 2020, retrieved 27 September 2025^