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===Post-war development=== [[File:Hillman Minx Series IIIC.jpg|thumb|Hillman Minx Series IIIC]] Following the war, Rootes also sponsored satellite manufacturing operations around the world, notably in [[Australasia]] ([[Rootes Australia]]) and the [[Middle East]]. The best known example of the latter was the [[Iran]]ian-built [[Paykan]], based on the [[Hillman Hunter]]. In 1950 it acquired [[Tilling-Stevens]], a truck and bus manufacturer based in [[Maidstone]], Kent. Rootes successfully sold a range of cars priced at a slight premium to their major home market competitors, justified on the basis that they offered a level of superiority in design and finish. [[Studebaker]] stylist [[Raymond Loewy]] was a design consultant to Rootes; evidence of his influence is most readily seen in the 1956 Audax range of cars, which included the contemporary [[Hillman Minx]], a model also produced under licence by [[Isuzu]] of Japan as the [[Isuzu Hillman Minx]].
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