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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...
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  • Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partly nationalised in 1975, when the UK government...
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    founded in 1948 as Ashok Motors, which became Ashok Leyland in the year 1955 after collaboration with British Leyland. Ashok Leyland is the second largest...
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  • Albion Motors was a Scottish automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer. Founded in 1899, Albion Motors was purchased by Leyland Motors in 1951. Vehicles...
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  • named Leyland Motors Limited. 1951 – Leyland Motors acquires Albion Motors 1955 – Leyland Motors acquires Scammell Lorries Ltd. 1962 – Leyland Motors acquires...
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  • more mergers, particularly in the motor industry. Chrysler was already buying into the Rootes Group, Leyland Motors had acquired Standard Triumph in 1961...
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  • Jaguar to create British Motor Holdings (BMH), which subsequently merged with Leyland Motors in 1968 to form the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC),...
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    position until the Leyland Motors takeover at the end of 1960. Alick Dick resigned in August 1961 when the board was reorganised by Leyland in view of the...
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  • Austin businesses. BMC acquired the shares in Morris Motors and the Austin Motor Company. Morris Motors, the holding company of the productive businesses...
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  • The company was acquired by Leyland Motors in 1960, ultimately becoming part of the giant conglomerate British Leyland (BL) in 1968, where the Triumph...
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    Jaguar Cars (redirect from Jaguar motors)
    merged with Leyland Motor Corporation and became British Leyland, itself to be nationalised in 1975. Jaguar was spun off from British Leyland and was listed...
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  • MG cars (category MG Motor)
    that created British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC). The MG marque continued to be used by the successors of BLMC: British Leyland, the Rover Group and...
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    in Leyland, Lancashire in 1919. The British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC) was formed in 1968 with the merger of Leyland Motors with British Motor Holdings...
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  • and Guilds College in London. Parry-Thomas became chief engineer at Leyland Motors, a company whose main products were commercial vehicles. He filed for...
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  • community in Canada Leyland Line, a shipping company Leyland Motors, a defunct vehicle manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire Ashok Leyland, an Indian company...
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  • into the newly established British Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia, the name of which became Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia in 1972, and...
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    Land Rover (category Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers)
    Amsterdam Motor Show 1958: Series II launched 1961: Series IIA began production 1967: Rover becomes part of Leyland Motors, later British Leyland (BL) as...
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    Standard Atlas (category Standard Motor Company vehicles)
    was acquired by Leyland Motors Limited and for 1964, the van was renamed Leyland 15 / Leyland 20 (according to capacity). In 1968, Leyland merged with the...
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    large stone Leyland Cross, thought to date back to Saxon times. The town is famous primarily for the bus and truck manufacturer Leyland Motors, which between...
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    Daewoo Motors (/ˈdeɪwuː/ DAY-woo) was a South Korean automotive company established in 1937 as "National Motors". The company changed its name several...
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  • Crossley Motors was an English motor vehicle manufacturer based in Manchester, England. It produced approximately 19,000 cars from 1904 until 1938, 5...
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    Leyland Motors Football Club was a semi-professional football club playing their home matches at County Ground, Leyland. Leyland Motors played in the...
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    Organization in 1938 and was merged into the British Leyland Motor Corporation in 1968. In July 1969 British Leyland announced the immediate end of Riley production...
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    with Leyland Motors to form British Leyland in 1968. Nuffield Tractors had been started after World War II by Lord Nuffield owner of Morris Motors Limited...
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    name from BMC to BMH, British Motor Holdings Limited. In early 1968 under government pressure BMH merged with Leyland Motors Limited and Austin became a...
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  • components and engines. The Bentley Motors Limited subsidiary of Volkswagen AG is the direct successor to Rolls-Royce Motors and various other predecessor entities...
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  • LDV Group (redirect from Leyland DAF Vans)
    formerly Leyland DAF Vans, was a British van manufacturer based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham. Historically part of Rover Group and Leyland DAF, it was...
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    The Leyland Tiger is a heavyweight half-cab single-decker bus and coach chassis built by Leyland Motors between 1927 — 1942 and 1946 — 1968. The Tiger...
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    The Leyland Hippo was a 6x4 heavy general service cargo truck manufactured by Leyland Motors. Introduced in 1929, it remained in production for 40 years...
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    Rover Company (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England)
    a separate company and brand in its own right. Rover was bought by Leyland Motors in 1967, which had already acquired Standard-Triumph seven years earlier...
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