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A short history of Leyland Motors can be found at the foot of this page
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The history of Leyland Motors Ltd is long and quite complex, so this is only a very brief outline. If you are interested in more history of this company there are several excellent books available by authors Nick Baldwin, Pat Kennett and Peter Davies to name a few.
The Leyland Motor Company was formed in 1907 when the Lancashire Steam Motor Co absorbed the business Coulthard of Preston. The First World War brought rapid expansion to the company, up to 6000 vehicles were produced for the armed forces. Over the following years the company expanded producing a whole range of commercial vehicles, their products reaching many parts of the world. Albion Motors and Scammell were taken over in 1951 and 1955, in 1962 ACV, which included AEC, Maudslay and Thornycoft were bought out. From here the history is somewhat complicated and cannot be adequately explained in a brief history such as this. The outcome of these troubled years reached a climax in 1987 when the UK government sold off the company to DAF Trucks. The irony of this is that DAF used and developed Leyland technology to develop their engines, if you listened to a DAF engine in the 1970s you could hear its Leyland parentage. How different it could have been.
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