Hillman was a British car marque that began as the Hillman-Coatalen Company in 1907, founded by the Coventry bicycle maker William Hillman with the Breton engineer Louis Coatalen as designer, and was renamed the Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910. It was based at Ryton-on-Dunsmore near Coventry. The Rootes brothers took control in 1928 and merged it with Humber, and from the early 1930s it became the small-car marque of the Rootes empire, best known for the Minx, the Husky, the rear-engined Imp and the Hunter. Chrysler bought Rootes in 1967 and kept the badge in use until 1976, launching the Avenger in 1970 as the first Hillman financed by the American company. Peugeot later bought Chrysler's European operations and owns the Hillman name.
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Hillman was a British automobile marque created by the Hillman-Coatalen Company, founded in 1907, and renamed the Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910.
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The marque continued to be used under Chrysler until 1976.
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Hillman was a British automobile marque created by the Hillman-Coatalen Company, founded in 1907, and renamed the Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910.
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Hillman was a British automobile marque created by the Hillman-Coatalen Company, founded in 1907, and renamed the Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910.
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Hillman was a British automobile marque created by the Hillman-Coatalen Company, founded in 1907, and renamed the Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910.
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The marque continued to be used under Chrysler until 1976.
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The Hillman Avenger is a small family car, originally engineered and manufactured by the Rootes Group in the UK and marketed globally from 1970 to 1978.
Hillman Imp (Wikipedia)
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The Hillman Imp is a small economy car that was made by the Rootes Group and its successor Chrysler Europe from 1963 until 1976.
Hillman Minx (Wikipedia)
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The Hillman Minx was a mid-sized family car that British car maker Hillman produced from 1931 to 1970.
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Rootes Arrow was the manufacturer's name for a range of cars produced under several badge-engineered marques by the Rootes Group (later Chrysler Europe) from 1966 to 1979 in Europe, and continuing on until 2005 in Iran.
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