Rootes Group
The Rootes Group (English: Rootes Group) was a British automobile company, the Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam, Commer, Karrier, Singer and the English part of Clement Talbot belonged. The group was founded in 1935 by William Rootes, a former car salesman who bought up by and by the individual manufacturers. Rootes parent plant was the 1940 north-west of Ryton -on- Dunsmore to build aircraft engines and bombers built factory, which was acquired in 1978 by Peugeot. The end of 2006 the plant was closed.
Striking the badge - engineering was among the Group's brands. The entry-level brand was Hillman; Sunbeam was responsible for sports and Singer for luxury vehicles.
According to economic difficulties, the company was taken over by the U.S. Chrysler Group in 1967 and together with Simca (France) and Barreiros (Spain ) part of Chrysler Europe. Mid-1970s were abandoned in favor of the designation Chrysler all brands of Rootes Group.
Even after the end of the Rootes Group were two vehicles of this group for a long time with licensees in production: the built from 1971 in Argentina as Dodge 1500 Hillman Avenger was from 1982 - after the takeover of the South American Chrysler / Dodge works by Volkswagen in 1980 - sold until the end of production in 1990 as Volkswagen 1500 ( not related to the same German VW model type 3). The Hillman Hunter was developed by Iran Khodro Paykan than 1600 built with a different motor in Iran until 2005.
Karrier Bantam
Hillman Super Minx
Singer Gazelle
Talbot Ten Tourer
Timeline
1 COMMON platform of the Rootes Group, based on the Hillman Minx 1956 2gemeinsame platform Audax the Rootes Group of the Hillman Super Minx on Bais 3Common platform Arrow the Rootes Group 4gemeinsame platform of the Rootes Group, based on the Hillman Imp 5gemeinsame platform - Chrysler Avenger, Project 424 6gemeinsame platform - Chrysler Project C6 7 Collective platform - Chrysler project C2 8gemeinsame PSA platform with the Peugeot 104 and Citroën LN 9Chrysler project C9, technology largely from Peugeot 504/505/604