The Holden Dandenong Plant was a vehicle manufacturing facility owned by Holden in Dandenong, Melbourne, Australia.
History
In 1951, Holden bought 153 acre of land in Dandenong, Melbourne and opened the Holden Dandenong Plant in 1956.[1][2] The plant closed in 1988.[3] Starting in 1989, the Toyota Corolla and Holden Nova (a rebadged Corolla) were built at the Dandenong plant until 1994, when production moved to the Toyota Australia Altona Plant.[4][5]
References
- Melissa Townsend. No plans for run down General Motors train station at Dandenong South Herald Sun, 20 April 2015, retrieved 27 September 2025^
- The Holden Heritage Holden, 1990^
- Former Holden factory to be reborn as a mushroom farm – report Drive.com.au, retrieved 27 September 2025^
- Corollas rolling at Altona Canberra Times 9 September 1994 page 17^
- Takahiro Fujimoto. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Australia in 1995: An Emergent Global Strategy University of Tokyo, October 1998^