Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,245 pages of information and 246,075 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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SU-Butec

From Graces Guide

1976 New component manufacturing division of British Leyland

1977 British Leyland brought together 6 subsidiaries to produce auto-electrics and fuel system components for the after-sales market, which were 2 profitable market segments recommended in the Ryder report[1]. The subsidiaries concerned included:

1977 The Vanden Plas, foundries and the reorganized SU-Butec were added to the parts and service activities in Leyland Cars[3]

1978 BL Cars was split into 3 parts, of which BL Components was to be based on the SU-Butec activity[4]

By 1981 was a division of Unipart

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Jan 07, 1977
  2. The Times, Apr 10, 1978
  3. The Times, Mar 22, 1978
  4. The Times, Feb 02, 1978