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Leyland Motors

Industry	Automotive
Founded	1896; 128 years ago (1896) (as Lancashire Steam Motor Company)
Defunct	1968 (1968)
Fate	Merged with British Motor Holdings
Successor	British Leyland Motor Corporation
Headquarters	Leyland , England
Products	Buses Cars Trucks

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.

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leyland trucks.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leyland buses.

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