There was also a big luxurious Austin built by the Austin Automobile Co., an American company in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1903 to 1920. It was unrelated to the English Austin and is largely forgotten. When the Austin Motor Co. of England introduced its new postwar A40 model in 1947 as the four-door Devon and two-door Dorset it replaced the pre-war designed Eight, Ten and Twelve models. Britain was hungry for hard currency and rewarded successful exporting companies with extra steel allocations. Austin benefitted and the A40 was effectively marketed in North American, especially Canada. They were helped by the pent-up demand for cars caused by the war-time shutdown in auto production.