Leyland

Leyland was founded by James Sumner and Henry Spurrier in 1907.

Leyland Motors Limited was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses, and trolleybuses. It gave its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation formed when it merged with British Motor Holdings, later to become British Leyland after being nationalised. British Leyland later changed its name to simply BL, then in 1986 to Rover Group.

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Leyland was founded by James Sumner and Henry Spurrier in 1907.

Leyland Motors Limited was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses, and trolleybuses. It gave its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation formed when it merged with British Motor Holdings, later to become British Leyland after being nationalised. British Leyland later changed its name to simply BL, then in 1986 to Rover Group.

Later the bus division was split off to become Leyland Bus, eventually being bought by Volvo & closed down.

Leyland made passenger cars briefly in the 1920s, and in the 1970s the Leyland brand name was used for some British Leyland made cars in some markets, most notably in Australia.

In 1987 the Leyland Trucks division of, what was by then, the Rover Group (following the renaming of BL in 1986), merged with the Dutch truck company DAF Trucks to form the new independent DAF NV company, which soon after was floated on the Dutch stock market. The British arm of the new company traded as Leyland DAF, with two main sites in the UK: the truck plant in Leyland and the vans plant in Birmingham.

Following the collapse of DAF NV in 1993 the Birmingham van business was the subject of a management buyout and a new independent van company, LDV Limited, was created.

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