Leyland Trucks

Leyland Trucks
Subsidiary
Industry Manufacturing
Founded June 1993
Headquarters Leyland, United Kingdom
Key people
 Bryan Sitko (Managing Director)
Products Trucks
Number of employees
 1,000 (2017)
Parent Paccar
Website leylandtrucksltd.co.uk

Leyland Trucks is a medium and heavy duty truck manufacturer in based in Leyland, England. It can trace its origins back to the original Leyland Motors, which was founded in 1896, and subsequently evolved into British Leyland.

After British Leyland became the Rover Group, the truck business was merged in 1987 with DAF Trucks to form DAF NV, operating as Leyland DAF in the UK. After DAF NV was placed in administration, in June 1993 Leyland DAF was purchased in a management buyout and rebranded Leyland Trucks. It has been a subsidiary of Paccar since April 1998.

History

DAF LF designed and built by Leyland Trucks 2009
DAF XF built by Leyland Trucks
The first truck built at Leyland, 1896

Leyland Trucks history lies in origins as Leyland Motors which became part of the nationalised British Leyland (BL) conglomerate in 1975. Upon the breakup of BL's successor Rover Group, the truck making division merged with DAF Trucks to form Leyland DAF under the ownership of DAF NV in 1987.[1] When DAF NV was placed in administration in 1993, Leyland Trucks emerged as an independent company.

Timeline

  • 1896 The Lancashire Steam Motor Company (LSMC) is formed by James Sumner at the Herbert Street workshops with twenty employees. Henry Spurrier financed the development of a 30cwt steam van which proved to be successful[2][3]
  • 1907 T Coulthard and Co, an engineering firm in Preston, was taken over by LSMC and the combined company named Leyland Motors Limited[3]
  • 1963 Leyland Motor Corporation is formed after Leyland Motors absorbs Standard-Triumph International and Associated Commercial Vehicles during the preceding years
  • 1968 Leyland Motor Corporation and British Motor Holdings merged to form the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BMLC), which was now the fifth largest vehicle producer in the world
  • 1975 BLMC was nationalised by the government in response to the severe financial problems being experienced by the group. The corporation becomes British Leyland with Leyland commercials becoming part of the autonomous Truck and Bus Division
  • 1978 Leyland Vehicles Limited becomes the new name for the division
  • 1979 Production starts during September at the all new Leyland Assembly Plant. The first build being a Leyland Leopard bus chassis
  • 1981 LVL split into three companies; Leyland Trucks, Leyland Bus and Leyland Parts
  • 1986 Parent company British Leyland is renamed the Rover Group, the new company begins divesting its non-car manufacturing related businesses.
  • 1987 DAF Trucks take a 60% controlling share DAF NV that takes over Leyland Trucks and Freight Rover, with both rebranded Leyland DAF[1]
  • 1993 The Leyland factory is subject to a management buyout and becomes Leyland Trucks Limited[4]
  • 1998 Leyland Trucks is acquired by Paccar[2][5][6]
  • 2000 Production of all Foden product is transferred to the Leyland Assembly Plant
  • 2005 Leyland Trucks starts painting truck chassis robotically on the moving conveyor, a first in the industry
  • 2006 Leyland Trucks stops production of Foden trucks following the decision to retire the Foden brand[7]
  • 2007 in another industry leading move, Leyland Trucks starts production of the complete bodied truck. Bodies are built on the production line, under the same quality controls, and fitted directly to its chassis prior to delivery to the customer
  • 2008 on 17 April, Leyland Trucks produced its 300,000th truck. Mark Armstrong Transport took delivery of the DAF XF 105 direct from the assembly line[8]
  • 2008 Leyland Trucks built a record 24,700 trucks at the assembly facility (beating the previous 2007 record of 17,500), supporting DAFs Leading UK Market Share of 27.3%

Products

  • DAF LF – Designed, developed and assembled at Leyland Trucks.[9]
  • DAF CF – All CF65 2 axle rigids, and all right hand drive (RHD) versions of the CF75 and CF85 are assembled at Leyland Trucks.[9]
  • DAF XF – All RHD versions are assembled at Leyland Trucks.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 Daf BV ahead at half time Commercial Motor 1 September 1988
  2. 1 2 20 Years with Paccar Leyland Trucks 27 June 2018
  3. 1 2 A brief history of Leyland Motors, its predecessors and successors Leyland Trucks
  4. ↑ Leyland Trucks is back Commercial Motor 17 June 1993
  5. ↑ Paccar aims to cut queue Commercial Motor 7 May 1998
  6. ↑ Paccar acquires Leyland Trucks Automotive News Europe 11 May 1998
  7. ↑ Foden - The End? Transport News Network 13 June 2005
  8. ↑ Leyland Trucks rolls out its 300,000th truck Lancashire Telegraph 18 April 2008
  9. 1 2 3 Model range Leyland Trucks
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