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Leyland 1973-1975 - fateful name

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Created in 2012

Reading time 3min

Written by:

Roger Gloor

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Daniel Reinhard

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Leyland P 76 Super, 1973 (V8, 4416 cm3, 195 PS).

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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. The former commercial vehicle group Leyland is one of these lost brands. In 1961, Leyland took over Triumph, Rover was added and the merger with British Motor Holding resulted in the large British Leyland (BL) group.

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Leyland? Ah, British Leyland, the connoisseur remembers. But the Leyland story was anything but simple: Leyland Motors emerged in 1907 in Leyland, Lancashire, from a steam car factory founded in 1896 and produced only commercial vehicles until 1920. Then chief engineer J. G. Parry-Thomas created the luxury Pw Leyland Eight with a 6.9 and later 7.3-liter eight-cylinder engine. It was more expensive than a Rolls-Royce and only 18 units were built by 1923. A few racing cars were added later. It was not until 1961 that the Leyland commercial vehicle group returned to the Pw sector with the takeover of Standard-Triumph. Rover was added in 1965, and in 1967 Leyland was merged with British Motor Holding (Austin, Austin-Healey, Morris, MG, Wolseley, Riley, Vanden Plas, Jaguar and Daimler) to form the large British Leyland group - later BL for short.

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