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Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was an English vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses.The company diversified into car manufacturing with its acquisitions of Triumph and Rover in 1960 and 1967, respectively.
British Leyland was a British automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd ... company. The UK ...
1907 – T Coulthard and Co, an engineering firm in Preston, was taken over by LSMC and the combined company named Leyland Motors Limited. [3] 1951 – Leyland Motors acquires Albion Motors; 1955 – Leyland Motors acquires Scammell Lorries Ltd. 1962 – Leyland Motors acquires AEC, whose parent company ACV had acquired Thornycroft in 1961
LDV Group Limited, formerly Leyland DAF Vans, was a British van manufacturer based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham. Historically part of Rover Group and Leyland DAF, it was later a wholly owned subsidiary of GAZ. Owing to the global recession and a lack of long-term investment, production was suspended at the LDV factory in December 2008.
Volvo had attempted to purchase British Leyland's bus operations three times prior in 1982, 1984 and 1986, with the latter bid beaten by the management buyout that led to the creation of Leyland Bus. [7] [8] Both companies had a combined 75% market share in new buses in the United Kingdom at the end of 1987, with the companies also having a 57% ...
Standard Motors Ltd, Leyland Motors Ltd., British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd, BL plc The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company in the 19th and 20th centuries. The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann of Nuremberg formed S. Bettmann & Co. and started importing bicycles from Europe and ...
The Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company originally founded in 1878, beginning car manufacturing in 1904. It primarily operated from its base in Solihull , Warwickshire . Rover also manufactured the Land Rover series from 1948 onwards, and created the Range Rover in 1970, which went on to become its most successful and ...
British Motor Holdings Limited (BMH) was a British vehicle manufacturing company known until 14 December 1966 as British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC). [1] BMH was created as a holding company following BMC's takeover of both Jaguar Cars and the Pressed Steel Company in that year.