British Leyland

Leyland Motors Limited was a British car- truck-, and busconstructeur. In 1968 the company merged with British Motor Holdings to British Leyland Motor Corporation. That company was nationalized In 1975 and British Leyland called, or simply BL.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == In 1896 Sumner and Spurrier families founded the Lancashire Steam Motor Company on in Leyland (UK). In 1907 that company took over Coulthards of Preston . The combination was then renamed Leyland Motors.
 * 2 British Leyland Motor Corporation
 * 3 British Leyland
 * 4 Nageschiedenis
 * 5 Miscellaneous
 * 6 list of car brands that were part of British Leyland
 * 7 timeline to British Leyland
 * 8 timeline after bankruptcy
 * 9 see also

Leyland Motors was long led by the three generations of Spurriers until Sir Henry Spurrier around 1960 died of a braintumor. Under the Spurriers knew the company an excellent relationship with the trade unions and there was never more than a day production lost through strikes.

During the first world war, Leyland Motors grew quickly. There were about 6000 vehicles produced for the army. After the war a whole range of commercial vehicles was developed which were exported worldwide.

Like most other manufacturers was also involved in the construction of Leyland Motors stock that was used for the warfare in the Second World War. The company made a lot of trucks, including the Leyland Retriever, and built from 1943 also Cromwell tanks.

After this war Leyland Centurion tanks building. Also took place then many acquisitions place. An overview:

==British Leyland Motor Corporation[ Edit] == Leyland Motors In 1968 merged with British Motor Holdings. That company included Daimler, Austin and Morris Commercial. The combined companies operated asBritish Leyland Motor Corporation. The combination of the most famous British manufacturers United trucks and buses. There were business units included that building material, refrigerators and metal produced. Approximately 200,000 people worked at the new company. They occupied the second place on the list of European automobile manufacturers. In total, the Group nearly 100 different companies and slightly less than 40 production sites. ==British Leyland<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Group was so large that it was difficult to train them properly. There was also competition between different parts of the group, which had before competitors were, because they are the same product made. Also because of problems with the trade unions brought all these things the company to the financial abyss.
 * 1951: Albion Motors
 * 1955: Scamell tip trucks
 * 1960: Standard Triumph; This was the first step in the passenger car market.
 * 1962: Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV), in which United were:
 * Thornycroft
 * Park Royal Vehicles
 * Charles H. Roe
 * AEC
 * 1965: Bristol Commercial Vehicles
 * 1965: Eastern Coach Works

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In december 1974 the group went bankrupt in 1975 nationalized by the British Government. The name was changed to British Leyland and the Group was split into 4 divisions. British Leylands truck-and busdivisies were transferred to Leyland Truck & Bus. In 1981 Leyland Truck & Bus was split into Leyland Trucks and Leyland Bus.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The name British Leyland disappeared later in 1982. ==Nageschiedenis<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Leyland Olympian double-decker bus bySBS Transit in Singapore. The model was the last thing Leyland with the logo was built.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Leyland Bus was sold to its management and in 1988 bought out by Volvo Bus. This put a large portion of the program by Leyland Bus stop.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Leyland Trucks was placed with Rover Group and merged in 1987 with the Dutch DAF. The trucks were in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Leyland DAF DAFas sold and beyond. After the bankruptcy of DAF in 1993 was the section, to the management sold Leyland Trucks and called back. The van Division was LDV. In 1998 Leyland Trucks was acquired by the the American truck manufacturer Paccar. Currently in the English factory built such a 14,000 trucks per year of which one third is sold in theEU .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Leyland Motors also had a Division in Australia, Leyland Australia. There was the Morris Marina built with the Leyland P76, thelogoand the Austin Mini.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">MG Rover Group, the direct heir of British Leyland, went bankrupt in 2005. ==Miscellaneous<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==List of car brands that were part of British Leyland<span class="mw-editsection" len="382" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Timeline to British Leyland<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Timeline after bankruptcy<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * A known Leyland Atlantean double-decker buswas the product, which was built between 1956 and 1986.
 * Other bestsellers all over the world were the Royal Tiger-, Tiger Cub, Leopard-and- Worldmaster-coaches with under floor engine from the 1950s and 1960s.
 * Dutch public transport In the reason large numbers of Leyland buses from the early 1950s until the 1980s. It went both buses on Leylandchassis if for self-supporting body works with Leyland components. Examples of this are the Leyland-Verheul (Royal) Holland Coach, the Leyland-werkspoor bolramer-cross country bus and thestandard Intercity buses Leyland Leyland Verheul LVB668 andDen Oudsten LOB. Large Leyland-users were the then subsidiaries of the NS, including NACO, NBM,NZHVM and VAD, as well as leading private carriers and GTW, Maarse and Crown and NAO.
 * Alvis
 * Austin
 * Austin-Healey
 * BSA
 * Daimler
 * Jaguar
 * Lanchester Motor Company
 * Land Rover
 * Leyland Motors
 * MG
 * Mini
 * Morris
 * Riley
 * Rover
 * Standard
 * Triumph Motor Company
 * Vanden Plas
 * Wolseley Motor Company
 * 1910: Daimler BSA takes about
 * 1931: BSA Lanchester takes about
 * 1938: Morris indicative Wolseley and Riley on within the Nuffield Organisation
 * 1944: Standard takes Triumph over and Standard Triumph
 * Vanden Plas: 1946Austin takes over
 * 1952: Nuffield Organisation and Austin merge to British Motor Corporation (BMC)
 * 1960: Jaguar Daimler and others auto parts takes over from BSA
 * 1961: Leyland Motors takes Standard Triumph over
 * 1965: Rover takes Alvis about
 * 1966: BMC merges with Jaguar to British Motor Holdings (BMH)
 * 1967: Rover Leyland Motors takes over
 * 1968: BMH merged with Leyland Motors to British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC)
 * 1975: BLMC is nationalized and becomes British Leyland (BL)
 * 1978: Land Rover split from Rover but still under BL
 * 1978: Triumph site in Speke closed
 * 1980: MG site in Abingdon closed
 * 1980: Canley Triumph site in closed
 * 1981: Rover-Triumph site closed in Solihull
 * 1981: Alvis sold to United Scientific Holdings
 * 1982: BL is Austin Rover Group (ARG)
 * 1984: abandonment Morris
 * 1984: Jaguar/Daimler repelled; Bought by Ford Motor Company in 1989
 * 1986: ARG is Rover Group
 * 1986: Leyland Trucks (& Vans) sold to DAF
 * 1986: Leyland Bus repelled
 * 1987: abandonment Austin
 * 1988: Rover Group and Privatisation sale to British Aerospace (BA)
 * 1994: BA sells Rover Group to BMW
 * 2000: BMW sells Land Rover to Ford Motor Company
 * 2000: MG Rover Group becomes independent
 * 2005: bankruptcy MG Rover Group