The first production Champ was completed on 1 September 1951. Austin had been awarded the contract to produce 15,000 of them, and a former aircraft factory at Cofton Hackett on the edge of its Longbridge plant in Birmingham was fitted out to build them. The Champ was priced at 1,200 pounds in 1951, which proved too much: it was too expensive and too complex to compete with the Land Rover, which cost half as much.
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made by the Austin Motor Company in the 1950s
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a former aircraft factory at Cofton Hackett, on the edge of Austin's Longbridge plant in Birmingham, was fitted out for the work
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The first production vehicle was completed on 1 September 1951.
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The first production vehicle was completed on 1 September 1951.
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made by the Austin Motor Company in the 1950s
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it was too expensive (£1200 at 1951 prices), too complex and had limited use outside of the narrow field combat role for which it had been designed
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The Austin Champ was a military and civilian jeep-like vehicle made by the Austin Motor Company in the 1950s.
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