Keith Adams So, it looks like it could be the end for LDV and I, for one, can’t help but feel that these are increasingly looking like desperate times for the automotive industry in the UK. I suppose that cash-strapped vehicle makers looking after their bottom lines are always going to close overseas operations (just [...]

THE INDEPENDENT Former Leyland Trucks executive Profile: Aintree’s baron looks to the next hurdle: Sir Desmond Pitcher: In hi-tech or retail, Mr Merseyside has always seen the real task as managing people. He talks to David Bowen SIR DESMOND PITCHER was in his element yesterday – mixing with the great and the good at Aintree. [...]

THE INDEPENDENT Hard road back from despair: Last February the workers at Leyland Trucks appeared to be headed for the scrap heap. In June they raised a toast to the team that lifted the firm from receivership. David Bowen traces a brave escape from the breaker’s yard DAVID BOWEN THE MAN from the Nat West [...]

By Clifford Webb Leyland Vehicles, the truck and bus arm of BL, today launches its most important new truck for more than a decide. Called Roadtrain, it wiill operate up to 40 tonnes gross vehicle weight and is the basis of an entire range planned for the next four years. Mr David Abell, chairman and [...]

By Clifford Webb British Leyland today announces the long-awaited flagship for its European truck sales drive, the Marathon. Capable of operating at the British legal limit of 32 tons, the vehicle can go as high as 44 tons gross vehicle weight and will be the biggest general purpose truck built in this country. In addition [...]

BY Clifford Webb British Leyland yesterday announced a new range of trucks to head its drive into the European Economic Community. They are being manufactured at the group’s Bathgate, West Lothian plant, where additional labour is being recruited. The trucks will also be assembled at Malines, in Belgium later this year. The new Leyland Redline [...]

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland Motors Corporation launches three new trucks for operating at the present United Kingdom maximum gross weight of 32 tons. They represent a considerable advance in the rationalization of the group’s overcrowded truck range. For the first time a major manufacturer is offering a range of trucks from [...]

Leyland-A.C.V. Merger A proposed merger between Leviand Motors and Associated Commercial Vehicles that would form the biggest manufacturing group of heavy commercial vehicles in the world, with combined total assets of nearly £117m., was announced in London yesterday. It was the outcome of what Sir Henry Spurrier, chairman of Leyland Motors, described as  “completely confidential [...]

NEW ALBION DIESEL TRUCKS FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT Albion Motors of Glasgow have introduced a new range of seven-ton payload diesel trucks for home and export, the Chieftain Super Six series. There are three haulage models, three tippers and a tractor for fifth wheel coupling, all powered by a 106 b.h.p. Leyland diesel engine. They [...]