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4 unusual facts about Leyland


Albert Naylor-Leyland, 2nd Baronet

On May 7, 1899, he became 2nd Baronet Naylor-Leyland, of Hyde Park House, Albert Gate, London.

Margaret Phipps Boegner

Dita Amory Douglas Naylor-Leyland (married Alick David Yorke Naylor-Leyland (1929-1991), son of Sir Albert Edward Herbert Naylor-Leyland, 2nd Baronet (1890-1952) of the Naylor-Leyland baronets; they have one son: Nicholas Edward Naylor-Leyland).

Milton Hall

The Earl died in 1979 and the Countess in 1995, at which time the estate passed to Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland, 4th Baronet.

Nantclwyd Hall

It is currently the residence of Sir Philip Vyvyan Naylor-Leyland, 4th Baronet (born 1953).


123 Signals Unit RAF

All of this equipment plus the workshop, stores and Unit Administration offices was built on Leyland lorry and trailer chassis.

1983 in motoring

Interior space, asking price and running costs are the car's strongest points, and a saloon version is expected next year to give British Leyland an up-to-date rival for the Ford Sierra.

Arthur Dooley

Other notable works are the fifteen Stations of the Cross in St Mary's RC Church, Leyland, and a sculpture entitled 'Splitting the Atom' (depicting the creation of the atomic bomb) at Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire.

Bean Cars

This carried on until Leyland was broken up by the conservative government in 1988 and Bean was bought by its management team who also acquired Reliant.

Bhandara district

Ashok Leyland, a Hinduja Group Company, has a production facility at Gadegaon near Bhandara.

BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun

From the 1950s in British service, the 5.5 was typically towed by an AEC Militant Mk 1 6x6 truck and subsequently the FV 1103 6x6 Medium Artillery Tractor built by Leyland.

BMC E-Series engine

However cost constraints and the recent merger with Leyland/Triumph ment all development was shelved on the project, as it would already be in a crowded sector within the company.A fibreglass full size mock-up is on display at the BMIHTGaydon, Warwickshire.

Bristol LH

Eastern National bought four LH6Ls in 1977, all with Leyland O.401 engines, 5-speed manual gearboxes, ECW bodies and dual headlight fronts.

British Motor Holdings

Tony Benn, appointed Minister of Technology in July 1966, brought pressure to bear on the industry and one result was BMH's merger with Leyland to form British Leyland.

Daimler Fleetline

The Daimler Fleetline (known as the Leyland Fleetline from c.1975) is a rear-engined double-decker bus chassis built between 1960 and 1973 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, and from 1973 until 1980 in Farington, Lancashire, England.

Delaine Buses

From the 1930s to the 1990s, the majority of vehicles in the Delaine fleet were of Bedford or Leyland manufacture.

Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System

In February 1987 the company learnt that its tender for 1,522 such vehicles was successful, but that as Leyland group had been purchased by DAF NV of the Netherlands, that the S26 would be built at the Leyland factory in Leyland, Lancashire, allowing complete closure of Scammell's Watford site.

Denis Greenhill, Baron Greenhill of Harrow

His later years included roles as governor of the BBC and as a director of BAT Industries, Hawker Siddeley Group, Wellcome Foundation, Clerical Medical and General Life Assurance, S.G. Warburg and Leyland International.

East Kent Road Car Company

Later when MCW ceased production the Company turned to once again to Leyland for new buses, these being Olympians with Northern Counties bodywork.

Eric Varley

Varley continued the government's slow nationalisation programme by appointing Michael Edwardes to take over at British Leyland.

Farington

Situated to the immediate north of Leyland, Farington consists of villages, farms and mossland, modern residential development and an industrial area around the Leyland Trucks headquarters and assembly plant.

Giovanni Michelotti

After Triumph's parent company Leyland Motors became a part of British Leyland, Michelotti undertook a facelift of the BMC 1100 – which became the Spanish-built Austin Victoria and also the South African-built Austin Apache.

History of Lothian Buses

After the purchase of Leyland Bus by Volvo, Lothian remained loyal to the Volvo Olympian chassis, taking 134 with Alexander RH and Royale type bodies between 1994 and 1997.

Land Rover Group

In 1987 the Leyland Trucks division and the Freight Rover van making interests merged with the Dutch DAF Trucks company to form DAF NV, with Leyland DAF as a UK-based manufacturing and sales division.

Leyland Band

The Leyland Band was established in 1946 in the heart of industrial Lancashire as the Leyland Motors Band, taking its name from the world famous truck and bus company.

Leyland P76

Despite the V8 model winning Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for 1973, sales of the P76 were adversely affected by a variety of issues: component manufacturers' strikes limiting parts availability, production problems at Leyland Australia's plant in Zetland all restricted supply of the car; the release of P76 coincided with the first Oil Crisis, when fuel prices increased dramatically.

Leyland Panther Cub

Leyland produced a Strachan-bodied B43D demonstrator for the 1966 Earls Court show, this was YTB771D which in 1967 became the sole Panther Cub in the Eastbourne Corporation fleet.

Leyland Tiger Cub

From 1961 when longer single decks were allowed domestic sales of the Tiger Cub began to tail off, and by 1969 the model could be considered replaced in the British Leyland catalogue by the similarly powered Bristol LH.

Leyland Titan

Leyland Titan is a brand name used by British Leyland on two occasions.

MASS Engineering

The Company also owns 12 Scania N113DRB deckers with Northern Counties bodywork and four further ex-Hong Kong 11m Leyland Olympian/Alexanders with air-conditioning as replacements for its fleet of Leyland Titans.

Maurice Leyland

Leyland was born in Bilton, an area of Harrogate, to Mercy (née Lambert) and Edward (Ted) Leyland.

Michael Edwardes

His tenure with British Leyland lasted until 1982, when he was replaced by Harold Musgrove.

Monna Rosa

About the time Rossetti was painting Monna Rosa, he introduced James Abbott McNeill Whistler to Leyland.

New Zealand Railways Road Services

From Ford Model T-based cars to Straker steam trucks, to various Albion, Cadillac, Leyland and Dodge badged buses.

Northern Counties Motor and Engineering Company

In 1975 the company collaborated with Foden Ltd, a well-known manufacturer of commercial vehicles, to produce a semi-integral double-deck vehicle intended to compete with chassis manufacturer Leyland.

NZR RM class

The first truly successful railcar class to enter service in New Zealand began operating in 1936, following the building of the Red Terror (an inspection car on a Leyland Cub chassis) for the General Manager Garnet Mackley in 1933.

Prestcold

Prestcold passed into Leyland Special Products after the Ryder Report.

Punchbowl Bus Company

Until the late 1980s, Punchbowl Bus Company were a loyal Leyland buyer.

S P Hinduja

With the acquisition of Ashok Leyland (from British Leyland) and Gulf Oil (from Chevron) in the 1980s and the establishment of banks in Switzerland and India in the 1990s, Hinduja became one of India's well-known successful business tycoons alongside leading names in business such as Tata, Birla, and Ambani.

Semi-automatic transmission

Their whole engine-transmission system was based on that from the main bus manufacturers of the period such as Leyland and AEC.

Leyland manufactured many buses with semi-automatic transmissions, including its Leopard and Tiger coaches.

SS Mohegan

She did not serve with the Wilson & Furness-Leyland Line, instead being purchased by the Atlantic Transport Line, who were seeking to replace ships that had been requisitioned as troop transports by the United States government for use in the Spanish-American War.

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

Other plots include meeting and helping the Lambeths, a wealthy couple whose marriage has deteriorated, as well as meeting with other passengers including Leyland Trask, a psychic from Boston; Reverend Edgar Troutt, a religious preacher from Sunapee, New Hampshire who is returning from an African mission in Nyasaland; and Max Seidelmann, an American freelance businessman from Philadelphia, who provides a back story and insight of varying value.

Tom Karen

He oversaw design of the Bush Radio TR130 radio, the Raleigh Chopper, the Bond Bug, the Reliant Scimitar GTE, the Anadol A1 (FW5), an award-winning series of truck cabs for Leyland, and the Marble Run.


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