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British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings.
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.
The British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968. Ultimately it would become nationalised as British Leyland, often referred to as just BL. In 1986 it was renamed to Rover Group .
Jun 23, 2024 · British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd., historic British automotive corporation. It was formed through the 1968 merger of British Motor Holdings Ltd. and Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd. to create the entities known as British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd. (1968–75), and British Leyland Limited (1975–78). It was renamed BL PLC in 1978.
Jan 5, 2014 · This story covers in detail the period from 1974 when the British Leyland Motor Corporation went to the Government for financial aid to the end of 1977 when Michael Edwardes had taken over a basket case. There is a lot of politics involved, most of it involving conflicting views within the labour movement on the future of British Leyland.
Feb 26, 2018 · Here we present the 10 greatest achievements of the British Leyland years – as well as five that have come to epitomise its darkest days – together with links to original footage or ...
Jun 4, 2024 · 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 time.
Jan 17, 2018 · As part of the series marking 50 years of British Leyland, Keith Adams picks through the numbers and recalls the views of the major players, to describe fully the merger between Leyland Motors and British Motor Corporation. Fifty years ago, the deal was laced with optimism – here’s how it looked in January 1968.
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 company since 1975. It initially included the Austin Rover Group car business (comprising the Austin, Rover, Mini and MG marques), Land Rover Group, Freight Rover vans and Leyland Trucks.
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