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The Rover Group subsequently being broken up in the 1990's after changing hand several times. It gave its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation formed when it merged with British Motor Holdings, later to become British Leyland after effectively becoming nationalized.īritish Leyland later changed its name to simply BL then in 1986 Rover Group. Leyland Motors Limited was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. At the time, LMC was a successful manufacturer, while BMH was perilously close to collapse. The during the early 1960's British Motor Corporation (BMC) was suffering a dramatic drop in its share of the home market, and in 1966 it succumbed to the pressures, and along with Pressed Steel, the car body manufacturer, merged with Jaguar Cars to form British Motor Holdings (BMH) Ltd.īLMC was created in 1968 by the merger of British Motor Holdings (BMH) and Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC) ltd, encouraged by Tony Benn as chair of the Industrial Reorganisation Committee created by the Wilson Labour Government (1964–1970). The British Motor Corporation ( BMC) was a UK vehicle company, formed by the merger of the Austin Motor Company and the Nuffield Organisation (parent of the Morris car company, MG, Riley and Wolseley) in 1952.

History (abridged) Main article: British LeylandĪ Leyland truck at Driffield Steam Rally next to a earlier Scammell in the vintage Commercial Vehicle line up 1.1 Leyland Agricultural, Construction & Heavy trucks Acquisitions.

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