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...y Yorkshire Enterprise Ltd, began the [[Optare]] coachbuilding business in the former Roe carriage works. [[Category:Bus manufacturers]]

...plc''' was the name that was given by the British government, in 1986, to the state-owned vehicle manufacturer [[British Leyland]]. ...ompany to the also formerly state owned British Aerospace who in 1994 sold the company on to German vehicle manufacturer [[BMW]].

{{List of Commer Models}}'''Commer''' was a British manufacturer of commercial vehicles which existed from 1905 until 1979. ...World War the factory turned to the manufacture of military vehicles for the British Army and by 1919 over 3000 had been made.

...motor vehicles. As it was so popular the company was purchased by a large bus operator, '''Thomas Tilling''', and renamed '''Tilling Stevens'''. ...vehicles with conventional gearboxes which led to a decline in popularity of Tilling-Stevens’ system.

...hicle manufacturer of [[lorry|lorries]] and [[bus]]es. It gave its name to the British Leyland Motor Corporation formed when it merged with [[British Moto ...ghbouring town of Chorley which still remains today as the headquarters of the LEX leasing and parts company.

...eshire in 1856. [[PACCAR]] acquired the company in 1980, and ceased to use the brand name in 2006. ...ge Hancock in 1887 the company was renamed ''Edwin Foden Sons & Co. Ltd.'' The company produced massive industrial engines, as well as small stationary [[

{{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}} ...the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and along with [[Crossley Motors]] the new group was renamed Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV) Ltd.

...ues now effectively dead, the new, leaner car business was rechristened as the ''Austin Rover Group''. ...the ailing firm, the resulting government bail-out and nationalisation saw the company being renamed to [[British Leyland]] (BL).

...vehicles and 460,000 diesel engines annually, and for the year ended 2007 the company had €11,196 million in sales (revenues). ...e'''hicle '''Co'''rporation, an alliance among European commercial vehicle manufacturers such as [[Fiat]] (including [[Officine Meccaniche|OM]] and [[Lancia|Lancia

...ation''' (BLMC), was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968. Ultimately it would become nationalised as ''British Leyland'', of ...s new chairman, [[Donald Stokes|Sir Donald Stokes]] (formerly the chairman of LMC).

...engineer and inventor [[Gottlieb Daimler]]. For the two direct descendants of Daimler's original company, see [[Daimler-Benz]] and its successor [[Daimle {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}

{{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}} ...ith substantial export sales of light, medium, and heavy trucks throughout the world. It was [[GM Europe]]'s most profitable venture for several years.

...had previously been parts of [[British Leyland]]. MG Rover is now part of the [[Nanjing Automobile Group]]. ==Ancestry of MG Rover==