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British Leyland

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British Leyland Cars | British Car Manufacturing | TV Eye | 1980

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Clarkson's Car Years - Who Killed The British Motor Industry?

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EUROTRASH AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF SHAME - British Leyland - The Entire British Car Industry

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British Motor Corporation Story

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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 nationalised in 1975, when the UK government created a holding company called British Leyland, later BL, in 1978. It incorporated much of the British-owned motor vehicle industry, which constituted 40 percent of the UK car market, with roots going back to 1895.
  • 1968-74: Creation of BLMC, and the Stokes era 

  • 1975-1982: Collapse, the Ryder Report and the Edwardes era 

  • BLCV 

  • BL Ltd 

  • 1982-86: Edwardes steps down, Jaguar divested, Austin Rover Group 

  • 1986-: BL becomes the Rover Group, sale to British Aerospace 

  • Ashok Leyland 

  • Notes for the timeline table 

  • Merged companies 

  • Other merger events 

  • Divestments 

  • Notable BL and BMC and related models 

  • Competing models 

  • Badge-engineered models 

  • Volume car production plants 

  • Truck and bus plants