Hello Jack,
In response to your comment;
" I have never heard of the company referred to as anything but British
Leyland here. Perhaps in calling it BLMC, he is taking poetic license so
that he can call the company Bloody Lousy Motor Corporation."
BLMC was created in 1968 by the merger of British Motor Holdings (BMH) and
Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC), encouraged by Tony Benn as chairman of the
Industrial Reorganisation Committee created by the Wilson Labour Government
(1964-1970). At the time, LMC was a successful manufacturer, while BMH was
perilously close to collapse. The Government was hopeful LMC's expertise would
revive the ailing BMH. The merger combined most of the remaining independent
British car manufacturing companies and included car, bus and truck
manufacturers and more diverse enterprises including construction equipment,
refrigerators, metal casting companies, road surface manufacturers; in all,
nearly 100 different companies. The new corporation was arranged into seven
divisions under its new chairman, Sir Donald Stokes (formerly the chairman of
LMC.
Norman
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