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Leyland Motors is a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. It gave its name to the nationalised British Leyland. The British Leyland Motor Corporation (often abbreviated to simply BL), was a Britain in 1968. ...
History
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. 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. ...
Lancashire Steam Motor Company was renamed Leyland Motors in 1907.
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. The Leyland Bus operations was divested as a management buy-out (sold to its management) and subsequently bought by Volvo Buses, which discontinued most of its product range. 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. ...
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. ...
After the privatisation of British Leyland, Leyland Trucks which operates today from the Leyland Assembly Plant in North West England was formed. The company, a major employer in the area, is a subsidiary of PACCAR Ltd manufactures around 14,000 trucks per year of which about a third are exported to the EU markets. PACCAR Inc. ...
Acquired bus and truck builders - 1951: Albion Motors
- 1955: Scammell
- 1962: Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV), which incorporated AEC, Thornycroft, Park Royal Vehicles and Charles H. Roe
- 1965: Bristol Commercial Vehicles, Eastern Coach Works
- 1968: Merger with British Motor Holdings, which included Daimler and Guy, and the Austin and Morris Commercial lines
The Albion was a Scottish automobile built from 1900 to 1913. ...
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. ...
Leyland Australia Leyland Motors also had an Australian subsidiary, Leyland Australia. This 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 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. ...
See Also DAF is a Dutch automobile company, with its main offices in Eindhoven. ...
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