Leyland Bus was a British bus and train manufacturer. It emerged from the

Rover Group The Rover Group plc was the British vehicle manufacturing conglomerate known as "BL plc" until 1986 (formerly British Leyland), which had been a state-owned company since 1975. It initially included the Austin Rover Group car business (comprisi ...

(formerly ''

British Leyland British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partly ...

'') as a

management buyout A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition in which a company's existing managers acquire a large part, or all, of the company, whether from a parent company or individual. Management-, and/or leveraged buyout became noted phenomena o ...

of the bus business. It was subsequently acquired by

Volvo Buses Volvo Buses (Volvo Bus Corporation / formal name: ''Volvo Bussar AB'') (stylized as VOLVO) is a subsidiary and a business area of the Swedish vehicle maker Volvo, which became an independent division in 1968. It is based in Gothenburg. It is on ...

in 1988 and the Leyland name disappeared in 1993.

History

* 1896 Formed as the Lancashire Steam Motor Company. * 1907 Name changed to Leyland Motors. * 1968 Merger with

British Motor Holdings British Motor Holdings Limited (BMH) was a British vehicle manufacturing company known until 14 December 1966 as British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC). BMH was created as a holding company following BMC's takeover of both Jaguar Cars and t ...

to form

British Leyland Motor Corporation British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partly ...

(BLMC). * 1975 BLMC was

nationalised Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to p ...

and became British Leyland (BL). * 1986 BL changed its name to

. * 1987 The bus business of ''Rover Group'' became independent as ''Leyland Bus'' following a management buyout. * 1988 The business was acquired by

. * 1993 Volvo discontinues Leyland ending all production of the buses and the

Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. The town was historically in Cumberland. At the 2011 census it had a population of 25,207. Locat ...

factory, where they were built. DE2817

References

* * {{Bus manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom Defunct bus manufacturers of the United Kingdom Leyland buses

History

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