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- Models included: Austin 1100 and 1300 Austin America, Glider and Victoria Innocenti IM3 MG 1100 and 1300 Morris 1100 and 1300 Riley 1300 and Kestrel Vanden Plas Princess 1100 / 1275 / 1300 Wolseley 1100, 1275, 1300, 11/55 & Wesp Although most of the cars were manufactured in England, they were also built in Spain by Authi, in Italy by Innocenti and at the company's own plant in Belgium.
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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 diversified into car manufacturing with its acquisitions of Triumph and Rover in 1960 and 1967, respectively.
British Leyland was a British automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in 1968 as British 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 created a holding company called British Leyland, later renamed BL in 1978.
This list of car models made by British Leyland Motor Corporation is a great way to see how British Leyland Motor Corporation has evolved over the years. British Leyland Motor Corporation types also have car class information available if you click on their names and go to their dedicated page.
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BLMC was created in 1968 by the merger of British Motor Holdings (BMH) and Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC), encouraged byTony Benn as chairman of the Industrial Reorganisation Committee created by the Wilson Government (1964–1970). At the time, LMC was a successful manufacturer, while BMH (which was the product of an earlier merger between the Brit...
Notes for the timeline table
1. The car brands of BSA were divested, BSA was not merged into Jaguar. 2. Mini was not originally a marque in its own right. See Mini and MINI (BMW) for more detail. 3. The BMC trademark is registered (1564704, E1118348) to MG Rover Group Ltd in the UK. BMC is also the name of a commercial vehicle manufacturer in Turkey, formerly the Turkish subsidiary of the British Motor Corporation. It is believed that Nanjing Automotive may have purchased this from MG Rover, however the brand has not bee...
Merged companies
The car firms (and car brands) which eventually merged to form the company are as follows. The dates given are those of the first car of each name, but these are often debatable as each car may be several years in development. 1. 1895 Wolseley Motors 2. 1896 Lanchester Motor Company 3. 1896 Leyland Motors Ltd (commercial vehicles) 4. 1896 Daimler 5. 1898 Riley 6. 1899 Albion 7. 1903 Standard Motor Company 8. 1904 Rover 9. 1905 Austin 10. 1912 Morris 11. 1913 Vanden Plas 12. 1919 Alvis 13. 192...
Other merger events
Several of these names (including Jaguar, Land Rover and Mini) are now in other hands. The history of the mergers and other key events is as follows: 1. 1910 Daimler merged with the BSA car armaments-and-motorbikes engineering company BSA (last BSA car, 1939) 2. 1931 Lanchester purchased by BSA/Daimler (last Lanchester 1956) 3. 1938 Morris Motors purchases Wolseley and Riley and from 1943 they are jointly referred to as the Nuffield Organisation 4. 1944 Standard acquires Triumph, forming Stan...
Buses
Historically, Leyland Motors was a major manufacturer of buses used in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It achieved a number of firsts or milestones that set trends for the bus industry. It was one of the first manufacturers to devise chassis designs for buses that were different from trucks, with a lower chassis level to help passengers to board. Its chief designer, John George Rackham, who had experience at the Yellow Coach Company in Chicago before returning to England, created the Titan...
Diesel Multiple Units
1. British Rail British United Traction 2. Pacer (train) 3. British Rail Class 155
Apr 12, 2018 · Leyland Motors could trace its roots back to 1884 where James Sumner, of Leyland, built his first steam-driven wagon. In 1896, following investment, he set up the Lancashire Steam Motor...
British Leyland was a vehicle-manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC). It was partly nationalised in 1975, when the UK government created a holding company called British Leyland, later BL, in 1978.
It was created out of the merger between the Leyland Motor Corporation and British Motor Holdings, which were the two largest wholly British car manufacturing groups in the UK at the...
