For the other companies with that name, see LDV Group, Leyland Bus, Leyland DAF, Leyland Trucks.
Leyland Motors Limited
Industry
Automotive
Founded
1896; 128 years ago (1896) (as Lancashire Steam Motor Company)
Defunct
1968; 56 years ago (1968)
Fate
Merged with British Motor Holdings[a]
Successor
British Leyland, Ashok Leyland
Headquarters
Leyland
,
England
Products
Buses
Cars
Trucks
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. It gave its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation, formed when it merged with British Motor Holdings[a] in 1968, to become British Leyland after being nationalised. British Leyland later changed its name to simply BL, then in 1986 to Rover Group.
After the various vehicle manufacturing businesses of BL and its successors went defunct or were divested, the following marques survived: Jaguar and Land Rover, now built by Jaguar Land Rover owned by TATA Motors; MG, now built by MG Motor, and Mini, now built by BMW. The truck building operation survived largely intact as Leyland Trucks, a subsidiary of Paccar.
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