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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 ... Group Ltd in 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
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 ...
Leyland Bus was a British bus manufacturer based in Farington, Lancashire. It emerged from the Rover Group, formerly known as British Leyland, as a management buyout of the group's bus business. Leyland Bus was subsequently acquired by Volvo Buses in 1988, with the Leyland name eventually dropped by Volvo in 1993.
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.
1956 Leyland Tiger Cub with HV Burlingham coachwork. Tiger (front-engined, PS series) - 1948-1968 Comet - 1948-1971; Olympic - 1949-1971; Royal Tiger - 1950-1955; Worldmaster - 1955-1979
The Rover Group Limited; Industry: Automobiles: Predecessor: British Leyland: Founded: 1986; 39 years ago (): Defunct: May 2000; 24 years ago (): Fate: Split, MG and Rover sold to Phoenix Venture Holdings for a nominal £10 to create MG Rover Group, Land Rover sold to Ford for £1.8 billion, Mini retained by BMW.