Image: Wolseley's roots date back to 1887 when the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company was founded It dates back to 1887 when, after working as a 'jackeroo' in New South Wales, Dublin-born ...

The marque: Founded as the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company in Sydney in 1887. It changed its location to Birmingham, and its output to cars. The marque: Founded as the Wolseley Sheep ...

Wolseley began life as the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company in 1887 and it wasn’t until the 1960s that it became focused on heating products. It acquired Ferguson in 1982, and in 2017 the ...

In 1889, after their success in Australia making the sheep shearing machine,Wolseley set up a factory in Birmingham, England and it was there that Austin designed and built the first prototype ...

then employed as a works manager at the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Company, became interested in engines and automobiles. After a visit to a Paris exhibition Mr Austin, an employee of Frederick ...