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	British Motor Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Motor Corporation (BMC) was a UK vehicle company, formed by the merger of the Austin Motor Company and the Nuffield Organisation (parent of the Morris car company, MG, Riley and Wolseley) in 1952.
		BMC was the largest British car company of its day, with (in 1952) 39 percent of British output, producing a wide range of cars under brand names including Austin, Morris, MG, Austin-Healey, Wolseley as well as commercial vehicles and agricultural tractors.
		BMC's headquarters were at the Austin plant at Longbridge, near Birmingham and Austin was the dominant partner in the group mainly because of the chairman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Motor_Corporation (801 words)

	British Leyland Motor Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Leyland Motor Corporation ("BLMC"), was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968.
		BLMC, later to become just "BL", was created from the merger of British Motor Holdings and Leyland Motor Corporation, combining most of the remaining British car manufacturing companies.
		This, combined with serious industrial relations problems (principally, the company's relations with hard-line trade unions of the time), and ineffectual management meant that BL became an unmanageable and financially crippled behemoth whose bankruptcy in 1975 was inevitable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Leyland (915 words)

	British Motor Corporation
		BMC was born out of an amalgamation of two already huge concerns, Nuffield Motors (Morris) and Austin in 1952.
		BMC management was now creaking at the seems trying to manage it's empire, endeavouring to hold the UK operation together as well as newer plants in Europe and Australia.
		In 1968, the company became British Leyland after a short period in limbo as British Motor Holdings and gradually transformed into what it is today, the Rover Group, a part of BMW.
	www.theautochannel.com /vehicles/coll/marque/bmcnew2.html (1507 words)

	BMC Information Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And so the field was narrowed to those British Leyland models which had been used in competition - the Mini Cooper 'S', the BMC 1800, the Rover and Triumph 2000's and the Rover 3500 VS. In the sports car range we had the MGB, MGC, Midget and Spitfire.
		Our BMC 1800's will not be the fastest cars to start the Marathon but they will be amongst the strongest cars on the starting grid.
		Henry Liddon, senior co-driver and navigator for the BMC Competitions Department, was the first man to survey the entire course from London to Sydney.
	marathon68.homestead.com /Page22.html (1577 words)

	MG Rover Group: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MG Rover was the largest independent manufacturer of cars in the British motor industry (British motor industry: the british motor industry is historically centred around coventry in the west midlands....
		MG Rover are the heirs of the British Leyland Motor Corporation (British Leyland Motor Corporation: the british leyland motor corporation (often abbreviated to simply "bl"), was a car manufacturing...
		In January 2005, it was revealed that British Prime Minister (Prime Minister: The person who holds the position of head of state in England) Tony Blair (Tony Blair: British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953)) had intervened to support the alliance between MG Rover and SAIC.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/mg_rover_group1 (2363 words)

	The Austin Motor Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These are just two of the outstanding characteristics of a brilliant new family car announced by the British Motor Corporation.
		Designed by Alec lssigonis, the new '1800' follows the basic design conception of the BMC Mini and '1100' models with transversely mounted engine and transmission unit, front wheel drive and Hydrolastic suspension with "a wheel at each corner".
		Additional convenient storage space is available for the impedimenta which most enthusiastic drivers like to carry reflecting the fact that the BMC senior engineers themselves have 'lived with the car' during a substantial part of its development.
	austin1800.homestead.com /Page3.html (964 words)

	Requiem for MG - Car and Driver - September 2005
		The last owners were a group of four businessmen from the British Midlands who called their endeavor the Phoenix Consortium.
		British Leyland, mired in industrial problems, failed to rise to the challenge.
		In the '80s, an ever-closer link with Honda seemed to be British Leyland's best hope for the future, and one wonders what would have happened if the Japanese had taken control of the company in 1994 instead of the company that did, BMW.
	www.caranddriver.com /article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=9865 (736 words)

	Background Information - Motor Manufacturers in Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1973 the motor car business was sold back into the private sector and in 1980 Rolls Royce Motors was bought by Vickers Engineering (their first involvement in motor cars since they sold their interest in Wolseley in 1926).
		Standard Triumph was purchased by Leyland Motor Co in 1962 (the Standard marque was dropped in 1963 as the meaning of the word in general culture had changed from implying quality to suggesting ordinary).
		Fords established a British factory in 1928 building the Model T motor car using imported parts, these were painted blue until 1917 when Ford introduced an all-fl policy (because the fl paint was a better option than any of the coloured paints available at the time).
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/00-app1/motorman.htm (2291 words)

	Jaguar Cars is a British automobile manufacturer. Founded in 1922 as the Swallow Sidecar Company by William Lyons,
		The company was independent until it became part of the nationally-owned British Motor Corporation in 1966.
		In 1984 it was floated as a separate company on the stock market -- one of the Thatcher government's many privatizations -- only to be taken over by Ford in 1989-1990.
		The company was originally located in Blackpool but re-located to Coventry to be at the heart of the British motor industry.
	www.birminghamuk.com /wikipedia/Jaguar_(car).htm (464 words)

	MG (car) - WOI Encyclopedia Italia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MG is a British marque that traditionally has produced sports cars from 1924 to 2005.
		As part of Morris, (itself part of the Nuffield Organisation), MG was effectively absorbed into the British Motor Corporation in 1952, and latterly British Leyland in 1968.
		The marque lived on after 1980 as British Leyland (later Austin Rover Group), the then-owner, placed the MG badge on a number of Austin saloons.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/MG_(car) (690 words)

	The Rover Cars Fiasco: An Object Lesson in Government Incompetence, Mismanagement and Perfidy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The two British champions of the car as a utility form of transport, were undoubtedly William Morris (later Lord Nuffield) and Herbert Austin, rivals for the mass market.
		For example, the tank, was arguably a British invention and proved the soundness of the concept of employing the internal combustion engine against horse drawn artillery, much to the chagrin of many cavalry officers.
		Through the 50s and early 60s, BMC were the leading British mass-market automotive manufacturer, beating both Ford, through their British subsidiary and GM, who owned Vauxhall, another leading make, in car and commercial vehicle sales.
	www.axisoflogic.com /artman/publish/printer_16932.shtml (3227 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Timeline: A century of car-making
		The British Motor Corporation is formed out of the merger of Austin and Morris to create a British car giant to rival Ford.
		Minimalist inside it is to become a British icon particularly during the 1960s.
		BMC merges with Jaguar to form British Motor Holdings.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4426383.stm (813 words)

	Automobile National Heritage Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A British citizen born in Turkey in 1906, Alec Issigonis did not witness an automobile first-hand until he was 12 years old.
		Designing a luxury car was definitely not the kind of project he wanted to work on, but in 1955, when Alvis decided to cancel the project, Issigonis resigned again and rejoined British Motor.
		In response to the Suez Oil Crisis of 1957, British Motor called upon Issigonis to head development of a small, fuel-efficient car.
	www.automotivehalloffame.org /spotlight.php?id=3 (565 words)

	Austin Motor Company - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Austin Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles that rose to be a major motorcar brand, the dominant partner after merger with Morris in 1952 but declining after absorption into the British Leyland Motor Corporation, and its subsequent troubles.
		Herbert Austin (1866–1941), later Sir Herbert, the former manager of the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company founded The Austin Motor Company in 1905, at Longbridge, which was then in Worcestershire (Longbridge became part of Birmingham in 1911 when its boundaries were expanded).
		In 1952 Austin merged with the Nuffield Organisation (parent company of Morris) to form the British Motor Corporation (later British Leyland) with Leonard Lord in charge.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Austin_Motors (687 words)

	A Summary Description of the Papers of the British Motor Corporation Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The company was founded in 1952 to unite the Austin Motor Co. Ltd., and Morris Motors Ltd. Its name was changed to British Motor Holdings Ltd. in 1966, BMC then becoming a main group subsidiary.
		In 1968, the company became British Leyland after a short period in limbo as British Motor Holdings and gradually transformed into the Rover Group, a part of BMW.
		This collection was deposited in the Centre by the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust in 1988.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/226bmcol.htm (349 words)

	British Motor Manufacturers 1894-1960, Austin
		This "The Motor for the Million" was a proper four-seater (Two adults plus three children) and was initially only offered as an open car.
		By the 1960's Austin had become part of the giant British Motor Corporation (BMC) and a period of "badge engineering" followed where the purchaser could choose between an Austin or Morris version of essentially the same model.
		BMC became part of British Leyland during the 1970's and later Austin-Rover, then Rover before becoming part of the German BMW Company in more recent years.
	www.britishmm.co.uk /history.asp?id=81 (725 words)

	What a nice Guy
		Guy Motors, a proud independent manufacturer with a pedigree going back to 1914, was taken over in 1961 by Jaguar.
		While it was but one of the many victims of the constant upheavals in the British motor industry in the sixties, Guy was to some extent responsible for its own troubles, mainly because of the revolutionary but ill-starred Wulfrunian double-deck bus.
		In 1968, when BMH became part of British Leyland, the Big J continued in production, the J being replaced in 1971 by the Leyland logo of the period.
	www.nationaltransportmuseum.org /cv009.html (760 words)

	Jaguar History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was at the 1931 London Motor Show that Lyons entered the market with cars of his own.
		In 1956, Bill Lyons was knighted Sir William Lyons for his service to the British automobile industry and The Mark VIII appeared with one-piece windscreen.
		Jaguar-Daimler and British Motor Corporation formed British Motor Holdings which merged with Leyland Motor Vehicle Corporation and became British Leyland Motor Corporation.
	www.motorcarsltd.com /information/jaguar-history.htm (1812 words)

	British Leyland Motor Corporation
		The British Leyland Motor Corporation (often abbreviated to simply "BL"), was a car manufacturing company formed in Britain in 1968.
		Many of these brands have since been de-merged and continue in use to this day, although the British Leyland name came to an end in 1982.
		This, combined with serious industrial relations problems (principally, the company's relations with hard-line Socialist Trade Unions of the time), and ineffectual management meant that BL became an unmanageable and financially crippled bethemoth whose bankruptcy in 1975 was inevitable.
	www.camcity.co.uk /directory-articles/British_Leyland (729 words)

	Morris Mini Minor Austin - Modern Racer - Modern Classics
		Its manufacturers were strained nearly to the breaking point by more than a half decade of armed conflict that left factories in rubble, resources constricted and the labor force testy to get theirs after so many years of sacrifice.
		Many of the models produced by the new amalgamation were far from inspired, and charges continually flew that Austin and Austin dealers were getting the best of the new vehicles, while Morris dealers were stuck with the dregs.
		Through the years as British Motor Corporation went through a merger to become British Leyland, led a stumbling existence under that moniker, and then became Rover Group, which is currently owned by BMW, the one constant remained the Mini.
	www.modernracer.com /classics/morrisminiminoraustin.html (1208 words)

	Results in
		Timothy R. Whisler, The British Motor Industry, 1945-1994: a case study in industrial decline, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1999), 428 pp., L60.00.
		The decline of the motor industry is one of the great puzzles in Britain's post-war economic history.
		The British-owned car manufacturers - principally British Motor Corporation (BMC), Rover, Standard-Triumph and Rootes - were stuck with a way of doing things which had served them well in the inter-war period but was totally unsuited to the more competitive climate of the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3884/is_200009/ai_n8915485 (318 words)

	History
		Already famous for his designs of the Morris Minor and Mini, BMC automotive design genius Sir Alec Issigonis, with assistance from PininFarina in Italy, based the 1100 on his previous design for the Mini ("ADO-15").
		The 1100, designated "ADO-16," for Austin Design Office Project No.16, was first introduced by the British Motor Corporation as the Morris 1100 Mk1 and was available as a four door model.
		BMH was a new holding company, but BMC continued to exist under the same name.
	members.tripod.com /austin_america/id1.html (1780 words)

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