Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, KBE

served his apprenticeship to engineering at Langlands Foundry, Melbourne, Australia; came to England 1890; Manager, Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Co Ltd 1900-05; founded the Austin Motor Co, Longbridge Works, Birmingham 1905; KBE 1917; Member of Parliament (Unionist) for King's Norton 1918-24; Chairman, Austin Motor Car Co Ltd; President of the Institution of Automobile Engineers and of the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers 1930; President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and Master of the Coach Makers' and Coach Harness Makers' Company 1934