• of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partly nationalised in 1975, when the UK government created a holding company called British Leyland...
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    its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation, formed when it merged with British Motor Holdings in 1968, to become British Leyland after being nationalised...
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    as Ashok Motors, which became Ashok Leyland in the year 1955 after collaboration with British Leyland. Ashok Leyland is the second largest manufacturer...
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  • back to the original Leyland Motors, which was founded in 1896, and subsequently evolved into British Leyland. After British Leyland became the Rover Group...
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    Leyland Bus was a British bus and train manufacturer. It emerged from the Rover Group (formerly British Leyland) as a management buyout of the bus business...
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  • absorbed into the newly established British Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia, the name of which became Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia in 1972...
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  • MG cars (category Use British English from July 2019)
    BLMC became British Leyland (later just BL). British Leyland's management and engineering staff were predominantly from the former Leyland organisation...
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  • the Rover Company to become British Leyland. BMC was the largest British car company of its day, with (in 1952) 39% of British output, producing a wide range...
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  • one result was BMH's merger with Leyland to form British Leyland. In 1965 BMC had purchased Pressed Steel, Britain's major car body manufacturer, and...
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    The Leyland P76 is a large car that was produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland. Featuring what was described at the...
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    The Leyland National is an integrally-constructed British step-floor single-decker bus manufactured in large quantities between 1972 and 1985. It was...
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    A ute (/juːt/ YOOT), originally an abbreviation for "utility" or "coupé utility", is a term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe vehicles with...
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    Morris Marina (redirect from Leyland Marina)
    family car that was manufactured by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1971 until 1980. It served to replace the Morris Minor in the...
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  • LDV Group (redirect from Leyland DAF Vans)
    formerly Leyland DAF Vans, was a British van manufacturer based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham. Historically part of Rover Group and Leyland DAF, it was...
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  • Leyland Line, a shipping company Leyland Motors, a defunct vehicle manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire Ashok Leyland, an Indian company British...
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    Leyland tractors was a tractor manufacturer in the United Kingdom. It was created after the merger of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) with Leyland...
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    The Leyland L60 was a British 19-litre (1,200 cu in) vertical six-cylinder opposed-piston two-stroke multi-fuel diesel engine designed by Leyland Motors...
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    Mini Moke (redirect from Leyland Moke)
    military vehicle by British Motor Corporation (BMC), and subsequently marketed for civilian use under the Austin, Morris, Leyland, and Moke brands. The...
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    LDV Pilot (redirect from Leyland Sherpa)
    1974 until 2005, originally as the 1974 Leyland Sherpa developed by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland, which was in turn derived from earlier...
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  • (1930–1952), British Motor Corporation (1952–1967), British Motor Holdings (1967–1968), British Leyland (1968–1992), Rover Group (1992–2000), MG Rover Group...
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  • receivership. Leyland DAF was formed in February 1987, when the Leyland Trucks division, including the Freight Rover van making interests, of the British Rover...
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    truck designs for Leyland Motors, and with designs for British Leyland (including the Leyland National bus) after the merger of Leyland and BMC. Born in...
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  • Morris Motors (category British companies established in 1910)
    organisations in 1952, the Morris name remained in use until 1984, when British Leyland's Austin Rover Group decided to concentrate on the more popular Austin...
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    several British motor manufacturers, including British Motor Corporation, Standard-Triumph and Rover, culminating in the massive British Leyland company...
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    Land Rover (category Use British English from June 2013)
    subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after British Leyland was broken up and privatised. On 31 January 1994, Rover...
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    car produced in the United Kingdom by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1975 until 1981 (1982 in New Zealand). The car inherited a front-wheel...
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    Mini (redirect from Leyland Mini)
    fibreglass version of the Mini Mark II was developed for British Leyland's Chilean subsidiary (British Leyland Automotores de Chile, S.A., originally the independent...
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  • Rover Group (category Use British English from March 2019)
    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...
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    marketed from 1962 until 1980 by the British Motor Corporation (BMC), later the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland, as a four-cylinder, soft-top sports...
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  • Derek Robinson (trade unionist) (category British trade unionists)
    Robinson (1927–2017) was a British trade unionist. Formerly a convenor and shop steward within car manufacturer British Leyland for much of the 1970s, he...
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