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	Jaguar Cars : NETBARS - CARSITE
		Founded in 1922 as the Swallow Sidecar Company by William Lyons, it was renamed Jaguar Cars after World War 2 because of the unfavorable connotations of the initials, Schutzstaffel.
		Jaguar merged with the British Motor Corporation the Austin - Morris ombined to form British Motor Holdings in 1966.
		The company was originally located in Blackpool but re-located to Coventry to be at the heart of the British motor industry.
	www.netbars.co.uk (812 words)

	British Leyland - Wikicars
		BLMC was created in 1968 by the merger of British Motor Holdings (BMH) and Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC), encouraged by the Wilson Labour Government (1964–1970).
		Sir Don Ryder was asked to undertake an enquiry into the position of the company, and his report, The Ryder Report, was presented to the government in April 1975.
		Alvis was purchased from British Leyland by United Scientific Holdings plc in 1981, in 2002 Alvis merged with part of Vickers Defence Systems to form Alvis Vickers which was purchased by BAE Systems in 2004.
	wikicars.org /en/British_Leyland (1763 words)

	Jaguar - The Dream Machine .... if only?
		This name was given to the entire company when SS Cars Ltd was renamed Jaguar Cars Ltd after World War II because of the unfavourable connotations of the initials "SS" (from their use by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany).
		The distinctive Jaguar badgeJaguar merged with the British Motor Corporation (BMC), the Austin-Morris combine, to form British Motor Holdings (BMH) in 1966.
		The company was originally located in Blackpool but moved to Coventry in 1928 to be at the heart of the British motor industry.
	www.wealth-creators-club.com /lxpv/jaguar.html (1145 words)

	History
		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.
		The Americas were intended to compete directly with the highly successful VW Beetle and throughout the sales, the marketing campaign advertised them as, "The perfect second car." One ad compared the road holding stability of the two by showing an image of the Beetle as a kite and the America as a brick.
	members.tripod.com /austin_america/id1.html (1780 words)

	Post-War Scene page 3
		Much criticism (commonly known as Leyland Bashing) has been levelled at British Leyland in recent years but I would thoroughly recommend members to read 'The Leyland Papers' by Graham Turner in order that they might better understand the human and financial problems that have been the lot of this giant combine.
		British Leyland is the last British-owned motor manufacturer of any size and, for much of its life, it has been in difficulty of one sort or another.
		Jeff Daniels, in his recent book, 'British Leyland - The Truth About the Cars', which looks at the BL problems of the seventies says: 'There was no shortage of possible reasons for these problems.
	freespace.virgin.net /austin.club/history/postwar/post_war3.htm (840 words)

	Guardian \| After 100 years, Rover finally reaches the end of the road
		In the 1920s, such was Longbridge's pre-eminence in the British motor industry that it was known simply as the Austin.
		In 1952 came the first of the mergers which reshaped the British motor industry when Austin merged with the Nuffield Organisation to form the British Motor Corporation.
		In 1986 British Leyland became the Rover group under new chairman, Graham Day, and two years later was sold to the then British Aerospace.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5166161-103690,00.html (997 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)

	Company is a history of British marques
		Rover today is the culmination of a long process of mergers and takeovers within the British motor industry since the Second World War.
		In 1968, after a series of upheavals in the British motor industry, Leyland merged with British Motor Holdings to form British Leyland Motor Corporation, the country's largest car maker.
		In 1975, the name was shortened to British Leyland, to BL Limited in 1978 and finally to the Rover Group plc in 1986.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/03/17/nrov417.html (282 words)

	Modern Oxford \| British History Online
		17) Before the rise of the motor industry there was an acceptance of a traditional job hierarchy: 'When I was a boy, if a man had a job in the gasworks, the printing press, or on the railways, he stayed there...
		The growth of the motor industry in Oxford was entirely the result of the enterprise of a local man, W. Morris, later Viscount Nuffield (d.
		The rapid and uncontrolled growth of the motor industry, however, while freeing the city at last from economic dependence on the university, did so at the expense of even greater reliance upon the motor-car.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22805 (17120 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.
		BMH and Leyland Motors owner of Rover merge to form British Leyland.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4426383.stm (870 words)

	Car Wallpapers \| Jaguar
		This name was given to the entire company when SS Cars Ltd was renamed Jaguar Cars Ltd after World War II because of the unfavourable connotations of the initials "SS" (from their use by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany).
		Jaguar merged with the British Motor Corporation (BMC), the Austin-Morris combine, to form British Motor Holdings (BMH) in 1966.
		The company was originally located in Blackpool but moved to Coventry in 1928 to be at the heart of the British motor industry.
	www.car-walls.com /jaguar.php (1145 words)

	British Motor Corporation
		BMC was born out of an amalgamation of two already huge concerns, Nuffield Motors (Morris) and Austin in 1952.
		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.
		Scant regard was given to costs, and margins appear to have been insufficient to enable proper reinvestment in new models notwithstanding the inefficiencies in the organisation.
	www.theautochannel.com /vehicles/coll/marque/bmcnew2.html (1528 words)

	Cartype : BMC logo
		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.
		Among the car-buying British public there was a tendency of loyalty to a particular marque and marques appealed to different market segments.
		In 1968 there was a further wave of mergers in the British car industry, and BMH merged with the Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC) to form the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), the original BMC mass-production, and MG sports car products being brought together into the Austin Morris division of the new organisation.
	www.cartype.com /page.cfm?id=1566&alph=&dec=ALL (664 words)

	Welcome to the Austin A30/A35 Owners Club
		By the time of the launch of the A30 the Austin Motor Company was enjoying a very buoyant and expansive period in its history.
		In the early post-war years the Austin Motor Co. had been very aware of the need to keep their vehicles in the public eye and to this end we saw Austin cars taking part in several record breaking attempts and other exploits.
		It was becoming more and more obvious that as a nation we had too many motor firms producing too many models in direct competition for markets at home and abroad.
	www.austin-club.com /?opt=102b (2146 words)

	Jaguar (car) information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jaguar merged with the British Motor Corporation (BMC), the Austin-Morris combine, to form British Motor Holdings (BMH) in 1966.
		The company was originally located in Blackpool but relocated to Coventry in 1928 to be at the heart of the British motor industry.
		British Prime-Minister Tony Blair is driven in a bottle-green Jaguar XJ8 to support British nationalism.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Jaguar_(car) (1500 words)

	MG Owners' Club MGV8 The first 30 year
		This kept MG and Rover as distant unconnected companies until, what in British motor industry history could be regarded as the 'beginning of the end', when on January 17th 1968 BMH and Leyland merged to form British Leyland Motor Corporation.
		However, the forming of a single corporate umbrella over a massive part of the British motor industry did have some benefits as during the first years of BLMC it is known that investigations were carried out at Abingdon to fit a V8 into the MGB.
		Autocar and Motor magazines (both independent magazines then) carried road tests and were consistent in their approval of the engine and the performance it gave, but were critical of shortcomings of the MGB they had previously identified.
	www.mgcars.org.uk /cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=mgoc&a=&p=emg/mgv8_first.html (4458 words)

	BMC
		For at the 1959 Motor show the Mini was launched, and with it the golden age of BMC.
		A couple of years later BMH merged with the Leyland Motor Corp to each form half of the BLMC, which was renamed British Leyland during the 1970's.
		Even though the British Motor Corporation was officially wound up in 1968, it recorded that year its best ever profit of £20.3 million.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /british_marque/profiles/BMC-Mini.htm (416 words)

	HISTORY OF DAIMLER (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Every British monarch from Edward VII to the current Queen have been driven in Daimler limousines, though in 1950 after a transmission failure on the King's car, Rolls Royce was commissioned as the Royal Primary Carriage, Daimler being reduced to second fiddle.
		Jaguar merged with the British Motor Corporation, the masters of badge-engineering marques in 1966 to form British Motor Holdings (BMH).
		BMH, merged with the Leyland Motor Corporation to give the British Leyland Motor Corporation in 1968 and the Daimler marque stayed within that organization and its subsequent forms until 1982 at which point Jaguar (and Daimler) went their own way and the Austin Rover Group went the other.
	www.duttondirect.com /history/view/make:daimler (969 words)

	Cartype : Guy Motors logo
		Guy Motors was a British company based in Fallings Park, Wolverhampton that made cars, lorries and buses.
		In 1966 Jaguar became part of the British Motor Holdings.
		In 1968, Guy Motors became part of British Leyland Motor Corporation after the merger of British Motor Holdings and Leyland Motor Corporation.
	www.cartype.com /page.cfm?id=1279&alph=G&dec=ALL (73 words)

	SwindonWeb - Swindon's Heritage - Car Industry - Swindon Pressings - Pressed Steel Fisher - Honda - BMW
		Just two years later, the merger of BMH with the British Leyland Motor Corporation, which included Rover, Land Rover, Triumph, Standard and Leyland, all came under the name of British Leyland (BL).
		British Leyland is a name that will be forever associated with a decline so terminal that successive governments of different colours were forced into desperate measures to stop the rot.
		Nationalisation of BL in 1975 was followed by the hiving off of its more sellable parts in the 1980s - and staff at the Swindon factory could have been excused for wondering not only where their futures were, but whether the factory had a future at all.
	www.swindonweb.com /guid/hericar.htm (2489 words)

	Car News \| MSN Cars UK - Rover: At the end of the road? - Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Rover Motor Co Ltd was founded in 1906, and built just over 750 cars that year, alongside about twenty times as many bicycles, which were still very big business for Rover.
		In 1967, during a period when the whole British industry was in turmoil, Rover was bought by Leyland Motors, which then merged with the British Motor Corporation (which had also recently taken over Jaguar and Daimler), to become British Motor Holdings, then British Leyland.
		In 1993 Rover Group, as it had become, and as a subsidiary of British Aerospace since 1988 (Rover’s ownership transferred with the aid of substantial government ‘sweeteners’, facilitated by Margaret Thatcher), was still Britain’s largest car manufacturer, building around half-a- million cars a year.
	cars.uk.msn.com /news/car_news_article.aspx?cp-documentid=475141 (1246 words)

	A Catalogue of the Papers of the British Motor Corporation Ltd.
		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/226bm.htm (356 words)

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