Leyland Motors

Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) started in the town of Leyland, Lancashire, England. It started as a bus manufacturing company but soon started to make trucks too. The factory locations included Spurrier Works in Leyland. A new factory was opened in Workington where the Leyland National Bus was produced from 1972 to 1985.

Leyland Motors

Industry	Automotive
Fate	Merged with British Motor Holdings
Successor	British Leyland Motor Corporation
Founded	1896 (1896) (as Lancashire Steam Motor Company)
Defunct	1968 (1968)
Headquarters	Leyland , England
Products	Buses Cars Trucks

Leyland Motors Media

• Barnsley & District ET bus 5 (HE 12), 1913 Leyland S3 Brush, Crystal Palace Park, 6 May 2006 (10).jpg

  Preserved Barnsley & District Electric Traction Co. bus 5 (reg. HE 12), pictured parked up in Crystal Palace Park, London, in preparation for the 2006 HCVS London to Brighton run

• Leyland Comet badge.jpg

  Badge on a 1954 Leyland Comet 90 flatbed lorry

• The original Leyland steam van

• A 1924 Leyland Trojan tourer

• 1927 Leyland Straight Eight Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon (1).jpg

  A 1927 Leyland Eight, with sports bodywork

• Leyland petrol road waggon (Rankin Kennedy, Modern Engines, Vol V).jpg

  Petrol-engined Leyland wagon

• Leyland reg KOG 676.jpg

  1948 Leyland Beaver flatbed

• Leyland Motor Corp 1968.jpg

  Share of the Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd, issued 8. January 1968

• ALCOB Ashok Leyland Corporate Building in Guindy, Chennai.jpg

  Ashok Leyland Corporate Building in Chennai, India

References

• Jack, Doug (1984). The Leyland Bus Mk2, UK: Transport Publishing Company. ISBN 0-903839-67-9

Other websites

• The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland
• Leyland Motors clock – Kendal, Cumbria