British Leyland was a British automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following...
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its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation, formed when it merged with British Motor Holdings in 1968, to become British Leyland after being nationalised...
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as Ashok Motors, which became Ashok Leyland in the year 1955 after collaboration with British Leyland. Ashok Leyland is the second largest manufacturer...
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back to the original Leyland Motors, which was founded in 1896, and subsequently evolved into British Leyland. After British Leyland became the Rover Group...
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one result was BMH's merger with Leyland to form British Leyland. In 1965 BMC had purchased Pressed Steel, Britain's major car body manufacturer, and...
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Leyland Line, a shipping company Leyland Motors, a defunct vehicle manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire Ashok Leyland, an Indian company British...
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the Rover Company to become British Leyland. BMC was the largest British car company of its day, with (in 1952) 39% of British output, producing a wide range...
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MG cars (category Use British English from July 2019)
merger that created British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC). The MG marque continued to be used by the successors of BLMC: British Leyland, the Rover Group...
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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...
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The Leyland P76 is a large car that was produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland. Featuring what was described at the...
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(110 kW) British Rail returned to the idea of railbuses from the mid-1970s, and prototype four-wheel vehicles were developed jointly by British Leyland and...
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Jaguar Cars (category Use British English from June 2013)
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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as motor-racing on public roads was illegal in Great Britain. As a mark of respect, the British cars were painted shamrock green. There is no exact hue...
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The Leyland National is an integrally-constructed British step-floor single-decker bus manufactured in large quantities between 1972 and 1985. It was...
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Morris Marina (redirect from Leyland Marina)
family car that was manufactured by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1971 until 1980. It served to replace the Morris Minor in the...
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Morris Motors (category British companies established in 1910)
acquired 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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Derek Robinson (trade unionist) (category British trade unionists)
Robinson (1927–2017) was a British trade unionist. Formerly a convenor and shop steward within car manufacturer British Leyland for much of the 1970s, he...
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absorbed into the newly established British Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia, the name of which became Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia in 1972...
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Princess (car) (redirect from Leyland Princess 2)
car produced in the United Kingdom by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1975 until 1981 (1982 in New Zealand). The car inherited a front-wheel...
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List of MG vehicles (section Under Morris Garages / M.G. Car Company / British Motor Corporation / British Motor Holdings / British Leyland / Rover Group / MG Rover Group ownership)
(1930–1952), British Motor Corporation (1952–1967), British Motor Holdings (1967–1968), British Leyland (1968–1992), Rover Group (1992–2000), MG Rover Group...
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Giovanni Michelotti (section British Leyland)
truck designs for Leyland Motors, and with designs for British Leyland (including the Leyland National bus) after the merger of Leyland and BMC. Born in...
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Mini Moke (redirect from Leyland Moke)
military vehicle by British Motor Corporation (BMC), and subsequently marketed for civilian use under the Austin, Morris, Leyland, and Moke brands. The...
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marketed from 1962 until 1980 by the British Motor Corporation (BMC), later the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland, as a four-cylinder, soft-top sports...
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Land Rover (category Use British English from June 2013)
subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace, after British Leyland was broken up and privatised. On 31 January 1994, Rover...
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Ute (vehicle) (section British Leyland)
A ute (/juːt/ YOOT), originally an abbreviation for "utility" or "coupé utility", is a term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe vehicles with...
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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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Rover Group (category Use British English from March 2019)
The Rover Group plc was the British vehicle manufacturing conglomerate known as "BL plc" until 1986 (formerly British Leyland), which had been a state-owned...
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LDV Pilot (redirect from Leyland Sherpa)
1974 until 2005, originally as the 1974 Leyland Sherpa developed by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland, which was in turn derived from earlier...
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Jaguar Land Rover (category British companies established in 2008)
Rover to the 1940s – first coming together in 1968 as part of the British Leyland conglomerate, later again independent of each other, and then as subsidiaries...
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Mini (redirect from Leyland Mini)
fibreglass version of the Mini Mark II was developed for British Leyland's Chilean subsidiary (British Leyland Automotores de Chile, S.A., originally the independent...
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