1977 Leyland Truck and Bus were at North Works, Hough Lane, Leyland.
1978 BL put its Truck and Bus activity into a new company, Leyland Vehicles[1].
1978 Moved under the umbrella company BL Commercial Vehicles with a number of other subsidiaries.
1980 BL Commercial Vehicles employed 38,000[2]
1981 LV started pilot production of the T68 Landmaster truck at the Bathgate plant in Scotland. The 5000 workers at Bathgate were still on a three-day week while the rest of the company stepped up to 4 days.[3]
1981 Leyland Vehicles split into three companies:[4]
1982 Part of the new Land Rover-Leyland
1983 Austin Rover Group and Leyland Vehicles, the bus and truck division, were both loss making; the other divisions of BL Cars, namely Jaguar and Unipart, were profitable[5]
1986 As part of the privatisation of BL, trade buyers were sought for Land Rover-Leyland except for Leyland Bus which would be sold separately[6].
1987 Leyland Bus was sold to its management.
1988 Leyland Bus was sold to Volvo