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Acronym: BMH
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British Motor Holdings
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n 1960, the result was that they were purchased by the commercial vehicle manufacturing company Leyland Motors. In 1966, BMC and Jaguar came together, to form British Motor Holdings (BMH). Leyland had achieved some sales success with Leyland-Triumph and in 1967 it acquired Rover. By 1966 Britain had slipped to become the world's fourth largest motor vehicle producer. Following a gr |
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Acronym: BL
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British Leyland
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ut required huge Government investment to improve productivity by providing mechanisation and improving labour relations. Despite the effective nationalisation of BLMC as British Leyland (BL) in 1975, the recovery never happened. Chrysler sold its European interests (including those in the UK) to Peugeot in 1977, to allow it to concentrate on its own difficulties in America. The UK |
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Acronym: UKIP
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UK Independence Party
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w ''Kilroy (television series)|Kilroy''. Before this he was a university lecturer and Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) who stood successfully for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the European Parliament election, 2004|2004 election to the European Parliament, before leaving them in 2005 to found a new party called "Veritas (political party)|Veritas", |
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Acronym: BMC
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British Motor Corporation
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ngst many other firsts in the industry. File:Pressed Steel 1967.jpg|thumb|right|The Swindon pressing plant in 1967 In 1965 Pressed Steel was acquired by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and the company set about combining the company with its existing body making subsidiary Fisher and Ludlow, acquired by BMC some twelve years earlier, thereby creating Pressed Steel-Fisher (PS-F) |
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Acronym: BMH
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British Motor Holdings
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, thereby creating Pressed Steel-Fisher (PS-F) . Later, in December 1966, PS-F came together with Jaguar Cars and the British Motor Corporation (BMC) to form British Motor Holdings (BMH) . In 1968 BMH merged with the Leyland Motor Corporation to form the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC). By this time PS-F had become the world's largest independent car body and car b |
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Acronym: BL
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British Leyland
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up]] where he progressed first to "Chief stylist" and then to "Design director". Rootes became part of Chrysler Europe in 1966. In 1982 Axe moved to British Leyland (BL) where he took over as styling director from David Bache, and was responsible for the building of a new styling studio at their Canley, Coventry plant; the former opened in 1982. He also recru |
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