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  • .... LDV employs around 2,000 at its Birmingham site, producing 15,000-20,000 vehicles annually. ...AF Vans Limited'' following a management buy-out of [[DAF NV]]'s [[Leyland DAF]] van manufacturing division, following the bankruptcy of the Dutch company
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  • {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Foden Trucks''' was a British [[truck]] and [[bus]] manufacturing company which has its ...d in Parliament). This model was the basis for a highly successful line of vehicles which were produced over the next 30 years.
    4 KB (628 words) - 06:49, 19 February 2007
  • In 1955, through an equity agreement, manufacture of commercial vehicles under license from Leyland Motors commenced in Madras, India at the new Ash ...al Vehicles]] (ACV), which incorporated AEC, [[Thornycroft]], [[Park Royal Vehicles]] and [[Charles H. Roe]]. Then Leyland Motors was renamed '''Leyland Motor
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  • {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''DAF Trucks''', a Dutch [[truck]] manufacturing company, is a division of PACCAR. ...e truck models sold with the DAF brand are designed and built by [[Leyland Trucks]] at their plant in England.
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  • ...asus") was a Spanish brand of [[truck]]s, [[bus]]es, tractors and armoured vehicles, and, for a while, of impressive [[sport car]]s. The parent company, [[Enas ...re Pegaso biggest markets, while a substantial contract to supply tactical trucks to the Egyptian Army was signed in late 70s.
    8 KB (1,174 words) - 05:19, 19 February 2007
  • ...,000 people at 36 locations, and with a production capacity of one million vehicles per year ...turer in the UK, employing 31,000 people at 12 locations, producing 38,000 trucks, 8,000 buses and 19,000 tractors per year
    16 KB (2,214 words) - 23:14, 22 January 2007
  • ...[[automobile]] manufacturer, later it concentrated on building commercial vehicles. Today the company is a subsidiary of American Axle & Manufacturing, and ma ...e company name was changed to '''Leyland (Glasgow)''' and later to Leyland-DAF from 1987 when it became a subsidiary of that Dutch concern.
    7 KB (951 words) - 05:26, 19 February 2007
  • ...unt of torque in production vehicles, including that used for buses, heavy trucks, and earth moving equipment. ...uced in 1958. Van Doorne's patents were later sold to [[Volvo]] along with DAF's car business and CVT was used in Volvo 340.
    20 KB (3,147 words) - 19:04, 27 September 2009
  • ...]] manufacturer, with substantial export sales of light, medium, and heavy trucks throughout the world. It was [[GM Europe]]'s most profitable venture for s ...ucts from the British Empire as far as import duties were concerned. Such trucks were marketed as "British Chevrolet". After GM took ownership of Vauxhall
    21 KB (3,417 words) - 19:13, 13 March 2010
  • ...sells the world's [[motor vehicle]]s. In 2008, more than 70 million motor vehicles, including [[car]]s and [[commercial vehicle]]s were produced worldwide.<re ...ited States. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and die
    50 KB (6,757 words) - 15:11, 15 February 2010
  • ...er batteries and starter motors. There is no standard terminology for such vehicles, although they may be termed [[mild hybrid]]s. ...also brother of author [[Herman Wouk]] ). Wouk's work with electric hybrid vehicles in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the title as the "Godfather of the Hybrid
    48 KB (7,153 words) - 16:31, 25 September 2009
  • ...gearing of the engine to the wheels. Typical examples include [[forklift]] trucks and some modern [[lawn mower]]s. ...used for decades in a few vehicles (e.g. [[Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek|DAF]] saloons and the [[Volvo 340]] series that succeeded them, and later the [
    18 KB (2,702 words) - 10:25, 14 January 2007