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British Leyland was a British automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings.
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.
Oct 3, 2024 · British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd., historic British automotive corporation. It was formed through the 1968 merger of British Motor Holdings Ltd. and Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd. to create the entities known as British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd. (1968–75), and British Leyland Limited (1975–78).
Rover Group was a British vehicle manufacturing company that emerged from the privatisation of British Leyland in 1986. It was sold to BMW in 1994, and then broken up in 2000, with its brands and assets divided among Ford, BMW, SAIC and Tata Motors.
- How The Government Brokered The Deal
- The Deal – and How It Took Shape
- Leyland Concerns and BMH Division of Responsibilities
- The Deal Is Finally Struck – in Stokes’s Penthouse
- Leyland to Rule The World Markets?
- And in Europe? Would BMLC Succeed there?
- How Big Was The Combined Organisation?
- How Did The New British Leyland Range Shape Up?
- What Was The State of Play in The Combined BLMC range?
- How Did The Group Look on The Ground?
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The Industrial Reorganization Corporation (IRC), which played a crucial role as a facilitator in the negotiations, made £25m available as loan capital for future expansion. Sir Donald and Sir George were tasked with planning the economies and rationalisation made possible by the deal. By and large, the aim was to establish a streamlined, tightly ma...
This was a deal that was truly shaped by the Government. The initial impetus for the idea came from Anthony Wedgwood Benn, the youthful Minister of Technology. He called the two companies together in the spring of 1967. Talks between the two companies got under way slowly, but as early as last August that year, an approach was made to the Board of ...
There were two main stumbling blocks: Leyland wanted a tightly controlled group organisation modelled on the American pattern, with divisions for cars. trucks and the like while BMH wanted the individual companies of Austin, Jaguar, Morris and MG to maintain a considerable degree of autonomy. The other stumbling block was personalities. A clear div...
The scene was set, the deal was made. ‘It was just like The Power Game – it started on Friday night and went on all over the weekend,’ said Lady Stokes afterwards. Sir Donald Stokes’ wife was talking about the weekend which led up to the £500 million merger of BMH and Leyland, and their St James’s penthouse was the background for the merger talks. ...
BLMC was set to become Britain’s biggest exporter and a formidable competitor in the fight for world markets. Leyland had sales to 140 different overseas territories, with turnover reaching £305m, of which 50 per cent went to overseas markets. For example, BMH had a £21m investment in Australia with production facilities for 50,000 vehicles a year ...
Since 1960 BMH quadrupled sales to the Common Market and the EFTA countries, and nearly trebled them within Europe as a whole. A total of 35 per cent of production were export shipments and 1967 foreign earnings were valued at £147m. With plants in Belgium, France and Holland the newly-combined company would be particularly strongly placed to launc...
In 1967, the combined production of Leyland Motors and British Motor Corporation was 913,000 vehicles, but the best previous production figure worked out at close on 1,100,000. The pitching of the merger terms surprised the City. On the basis of the group’s respective market ratings and share prices before the bid, there were rumours that suggested...
The merger certainly created a large and chaotically overlapping range in places. In 1968, it looked like this: Mini, MG Midget, BMC 1100/1300, Wolseley, Jaguar E-type, Daimler 2.5 litre, Triumph 1300 to the 2000, the Spitfire and TR5 sports cars, and Rover’s 2000, the newly-engined 3.5-litre V8 saloons and the Land Rover. British Leyland’s commerc...
BMH’s top-selling cars in the UK were all in the front-wheel-drive series, the Mini leading in 1967 with 190,000 built. Second came the 1100/1300 series, of which 155,000 were produced – after holding number one place for three years in the UK sales charts. Third place was still held by the BMC Farina models (Austin A60/Cambridge, MG Magnette, Morr...
The merger created a group with more than 40 factories in England, Wales, and Scotland. The groups were composed as follows: Leyland Group 1. 1. Leyland Motors, Leyland and Chorley, lorry and bus chassis, diesel engines (13,000 employees). 2. 2. Standard-Triumph International, Coventry, cars (11,000). 3. 3. AEC, Southall, buses, commercial vehicles...
Learn how the British government brokered the deal between Leyland Motors and British Motor Corporation to create the second largest motor manufacturing group outside the US. Find out the challenges, benefits and consequences of the merger that formed British Leyland.
Feb 26, 2018 · Here we present the 10 greatest achievements of the British Leyland years – as well as five that have come to epitomise its darkest days – together with links to original footage or ...
Aug 23, 2020 · Margaret Thatcher's government clamped down on the unions and privatised nationalised businesses. British Leyland was broken up and sold off, bringing an end to British-owned motor...
