Identity crisis?

[Dixminion]

The latest issue of Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car has an article about ***'s early years. During their 1930's transition from aircraft engine builder to car maker *** produced the Dixi, an Austin Seven under license from Austin in England.
So they've gone from building an Austin with a *** name to currently building a *** with an Austin name?

Don

Clever asterisks *** by the site , not mine.