Brisbane, Queensland
The Holden story in Brisbane concerns four locations:
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- Holden’s Motor Body Builders, Anderson St, Fortitude Valley 1923 - 1938
Situated on the corner of Anderson and Water streets, Fortitude Valley (sometimes quoted as Bowen Hills) near the Exhibition grounds, for servicing Holden (and other) bodies, and to assemble motor vehicles from Painted and Trimmed bodies shipped from Woodville, and mounted on chassis assembled in the Body Service shops from kits.
- GMA/GM-H Fortitude Valley Plant
This Plant, situated at 534 Wickham street, Fortitude Valley, has been variously referred to in different articles as Newstead, The Valley, Bowen Hills, and Fortitude Valley - a trap for unwary researchers!
- Strathpine
Land at Stratpine (adjacent to the Railway Station) was purchased in November 1954, to ultimately build a new Plant. This never eventuated, as Acacia Ridge was the preferred site when the new Plant was built, and the Strathpine site was only ever used as a storage area/distribution centre for vehicles, and some training activities.
- Acacia Ridge
The Acacia Ridge site comprising 160 acres (half a mile square) was acquired circa 1963. Earth works started about Easter 1964.
The Wickham St Plant closed in December 1965 and the Acacia Ridge Plant commenced limited production (Vehicle Assembly operations only) in January 1966 and it was a few months later that the new body shop was commissioned allowing full CKD Operations.. The new Administration Building was finished in 1967."