The Leyland Companies Commercial Vehicle operations have go through several different periods, with many mergers, reorganisations and takeovers. The different time periods are covered by several articles, which overlap.
Note: These articles still need work to expand them and give a comprehensive picture of the Leyland Brands history.
Time period | Article title | Products | related Brands & articles | Notes |
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1896-1907 | Leyland Steam Carriage Co. | Steam Buses | - | Start of the Leyland group. Renamed Leyland Motors Ltd in 1907 |
1907-1968 | Leyland Motors | Bus & Truck | List of Leyland vehicles | formerly Leyland Steam Carriage Co. |
1962 | Aquired AEC (ACV) | Bus, Dump Truck, & Trucks | List of AEC vehicles | Takeover |
1968-197? | British Leyland Motor Corporation | Buses, Cars, Commercial Vehicles, Construction Plant, Engines, Trains, Trucks, etc. | too many | Created from merger of British Motor Holdings (BMHC) and Leyland Motor Corporation(LMC) |
1969 | Create Leyland National | Buses | Brand / JV + build Bristol Buses | Created by JV with National Bus Company |
1970s | Leyland Truck and Bus Division | Trucks, Buses, & Tractors | Leyland Bus, Leyland Tractors, & Leyland Trucks | Reorganisation of BL into divisions |
1970s | Leyland Special Products | five sub-divisions: # Construction Equipment – Aveling-Barford, Aveling-Marshall, Barfords of Belton and Goodwin-Barsby # Refrigeration – Prestcold # Materials Handling – Coventry Climax (incorporating Climax Trucks, Climax Conveyancer and Climax Shawloader) # Military Vehicles – Alvis and Self-Changing Gears # Print – Nuffield Press and Lyne & Son |
see left | Reorganisation of BL into divisions |
1978 | Form BL Commercial Vehicles (BLCV) division | Buses, Engine, Forklifts, Military vehicles, Trucks | Leyland (engines), Alvis (military vehicles), Coventry Climax (fork lift trucks and specialist engines), Leyland Vehicles Ltd(trucks, tractors and buses), Self-Changing Gears Limited (heavy-duty transmissions) | New division formed to separate out non car operations. |
198? | Land Rover Leyland | Commercial vehicles & 4-Wheel drives | Leyland, Land Rover, Range Rover | BLCV and Land Rover Group merged |
198? | sold Leyland tractors | Tractors | Leyland Tractor Brand | Sold to Nicholson Group & renamed Marshall Tractors |
1986 | Leyland Bus | Buses | List of Leyland Vehicles | Floated off to MBO (then bought by Volvo in 1998 |
1987 - 1993 | Leyland DAF | truck & Van producer | List of Leyland DAF vehicles | Created from DAF NV takeover of the commercial vehicle arm after privatisation of BL Group/ Rover Group and was latterly the Freight Rover arm of the Land Rover Group division. |
1993 - 1998 | Leyland Trucks | Trucks | Created by management buy-out | |
1993 - 2009 | LDV Group Limited | Vans | Sherpa Van, Pilot Van, Cub Van | Created from MBO after the Leyland Daf Receivership |
1998 - current | Leyland Trucks subsidiary of PACCAR | Trucks | Acquired by PACCAR of the United States and incorporated as the Leyland Trucks subsidiary of that company. |
See also[]
- List of Truck Manufacturers
- Groups
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Created from the related articles as a index article to clarify relationship of various companies.