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Leyland Motors was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. It gave its name to the nationalised British Leyland Motor Corporation, later to become just British Leyland. The British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in Britain in 1968. ...
The British Leyland Motor Corporation (often abbreviated to simply BL), was a Britain in 1968. ...
History
Beginnings Leyland has a long history dating from 1896, when the Sumner and Spurrier families founded the Lancashire Steam Motor Company in the town of Leyland in North West England. The company's first vehicle was a 1.5-ton-capacity steam van. The Lancashire Steam Motor Company was renamed Leyland Motors in 1907 when they took over Coulthards of Preston. 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Leyland is a town in the borough of South Ribble, Lancashire, United Kingdom, approximately 9 miles south of Preston. ...
In physical chemistry and in engineering, steam refers to vaporized water. ...
1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Preston is a city and local government district in North West England. ...
World War 2 During the war, Leyland along with most vehicle manufacturers was involved in war production. Leyland built the Cromwell tank at its works from 1943. A27M Cruiser Tank VIII Cromwell was one of the most successful series of cruiser tanks fielded by Britain in World War II. It was the first tank in the British arsenal to combine a dual-purpose gun, high speed, and reasonable armor. ...
After the war, Leyland continued military manufacture with the Centurion tank. The Centurion was the primary British Main Battle Tank of the immediate post-war era, and considered by many to be one of the best British tank designs of all time. ...
Post War Leyland Motors acquired other companies in the post war years: - 1951: Albion Motors
- 1955: Scammell Lorries Ltd - military and specialist lorry manufacturer
- 1960: Standard Triumph, cars and some agricultural machinery interests
- 1962: Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV), which incorporated AEC, Thornycroft, Park Royal Vehicles and Charles H. Roe. Then Leyland Motors was renamed Leyland Motor Corporation.
- 1965: Bristol Commercial Vehicles, Eastern Coach Works
In 1968, the merger with British Motor Holdings, which included the Daimler and Guy, Austin and Morris Commercial bus and lorry lines to give the British Leyland Motor Corporation with the majority of famous British goods vehicle and bus and coach marques in one organization. The Albion was a Scottish automobile built from 1900 to 1913. ...
Scammel Lorries Limited was a British manufacturer of trucks, particularly specialist and military off-highway vehicles from 1921 to 1988. ...
1933 Standard Ten. ...
AEC was a United Kingdom based vehicle manufacturer which built buses and trucks from 1912 until 1979. ...
Thornycroft was a United Kingdom-based vehicle manufacturer which built coaches, buses and trucks from 1896 until 1977. ...
The British Motor Corporation (BMC) was a car company, formed by the merger of the Austin and Morris companies in 1952. ...
1898 Daimler car in Bristol Industrial Museum, England Confusingly, the name Daimler is used by two completely separate groups of car manufacturers. ...
A marque (French for brand and pronounced as mark) is a brand name, most commonly used for automobile brands. ...
British Leyland era The British Leyland group was difficult to be managed because there were many companies under its marque. Also, there were competitions between these companies due to duplicated products. These, and some other reasons, led to the financial difficulties of British Leyland. In December 1974, British Leyland had to receive a guarantee from the British government. 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
In 1975, after the publication of Ryder Report, the British Leyland group was nationalised and split into 4 divisions. The division of British Leyland's bus and truck production became Leyland Truck & Bus. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
Leyland Truck & Bus was spilt into Leyland Bus and Leyland Trucks in 1981. 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Leyland Name post-British Leyland The Leyland Bus operations was divested as a management buy-out (sold to its management) and subsequently bought by Volvo Buses in 1988, which discontinued most of its product range. A management buyout (MBO) occurs when a companys managers buy or acquire a large part of the company. ...
Volvo Buses is a subsidiary and a business area of Volvo. ...
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Leyland Trucks merged with DAF and Leyland-DAF was formed. In 1993, Leyland-DAF went bankrupt. Its UK division was bought through management buyout and named Leyland Trucks again. The Leyland-DAF van interests was also bought through management buyout and became LDV Limited. DAF is a Dutch automobile company, with its main offices in Eindhoven. ...
1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
In 1998, Leyland Trucks was taken over to become a subsidiary of the US truck manufacturer PACCAR Ltd. It operates from the Leyland Assembly Plant in North West England manufacturing around 14,000 trucks per year of which about a third are sold in the EU. PACCAR Inc. ...
Leyland Australia Leyland Motors also had an Australian subsidiary, Leyland Australia. It produced the Morris Marina, badged as a Leyland Marina, and the large P76 car, a uniquely Australian design, as well as the Mini. The Marina was a model of car manufactured by the Morris division of British Leyland throughout the 1970s, a period of great turbulence and difficulty for the British car industry. ...
The Leyland P76 was a large car produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland. ...
The Mini is the name of a small car produced from 1959 to 2000, and the name of its replacement (known as New MINI) launched in 2001. ...
Products Historically, Leyland Motors was a major manufacturer of buses used in the United Kingdom and world-wide, being probably most famous for the trend-setting Atlantean rear-engined double decker design produced between 1958 and 1986. This article is about the form of transport. ...
A double decker is a bus, airplane, train, tram, ferry, or any public transit vehicle that has two levels for passengers, one deck above the other. ...
1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Buses
- Titan - 1927-1970
- Tiger(front-engined)
- Atlantean - 1956-1986
- Leopard
- Fleetline - 1973-1980
- Titan(B15) - 1974-1984
- Olympian - 1979-1993
- Tiger(mid-engined)
- Lynx - 1984-1992
- Swift
London Central-owned Leyland Titan T 991 (A991 SYE) at Forest Hill on route 171, 5 May 2001 The Titan was a model of double-deck bus produced by British Leyland in the 1970s and 1980s, almost exclusively for London Transport. ...
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