British Leyland

British Leyland
Industrie	Automotive
Fate	Renamed
Predecessors	British Motor Holdings (BMH); Leyland Motors (LMC);
Successor	Rover Group
Foondit	1968; 55 years ago
Defunct	1986; 37 years ago
Heidquarters	Longbridge (Austin Rover), Birmingham; Cowley, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Key fowk	Lord Stokes; Michael Edwardes; Graham Day;
Products	Motor vehicles
Buists	Austin; Land Rover; Leyland; MG; Jaguar (until 1984); Mini; Morris; Rover; Triumph;
Nummer o employees	250,000
Subsidiaries	Jaguar Cars (until 1984); Unipart; Austin Rover Group;

British Leyland wis an automotive engineering an manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), follaein the merger o Leyland Motors an British Motor Holdings. It wis partly nationalised in 1975, when the UK govrenment creatit a holding company cried British Leyland, later BL, in 1978.^[1]^[2] It incorporated much o the British-owned motor vehicle industry, which constituted 40 percent o the UK car mercat, wi roots going back tae 1895.

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[1] A Catalogue of the Papers of Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine

[2] British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd. – Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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