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The car-making interests were sold off and the rights to the name now reside with the MG Rover Group. The company now is most recognisable for its ownership of Plumb Center , Builder Center and related builders merchant stores, which form the division Wolseley Centers based in Ripon, North Yorkshire. Despite the spelling of the word 'Center', the company is British.
The company was originally founded on the manufacture of sheep shearing equipment in the 1890s.