Holden Woodville Plant

The Holden Woodville Plant was a manufacturing facility owned by the Australian automobile manufacturer Holden (now part of General Motors).
Etymology.
Although the plant is named after the Australian town of Woodville, South Australia, the actual plant was located in the nearby suburb of Cheltenham, South Australia.
History.
The plant was operational from 1926 to 1965.
The Woodville plant got its first orders from General Motors. When Holden became the exclusive supplier of car bodies for General Motors, all of them were manufactured at the Woodville plant.
The very first Holden car was completed and delivered from the Woodville plant in 1948.
The plant grew and developed largely under the guidance and vision of the Australian motor engineer Sir Laurence Hartnett, who was instrumental in the success of the Australian automobile industry. It was largely due to Sir Laurence Hartnett, that Holden went from a minor Australian marque to a significant competitor in the global car market.
The plant was finally demolished in 1991.
Achievements.
It has been claimed that " during the 1950s, the Woodville plant assembled about one-tenth of the total number of Holdens assembled in Australia".
Although the Woodville plant was closed along with several other plants such as the Elizabeth manufacturing plant, the plant has lived on in the folklore of Australian industry veterans and in their collective memory.