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Places

Leyland, Lancashire Leyland ( ) is a town in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, 6 miles (10 km) south of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. The population was 35,578 at the 2011 Census. The name of the town is Anglo-Saxon, meaning "untilled land". History Leyland ...

, an English town ** Leyland Hundred, an hundred of Lancashire, England * Leyland, Alberta, a community in Canada

Companies

* Leyland Line, a shipping company

Automotive manufacturers

Leyland Motors Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was an English vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company diversified into car manufacturing with its acquisitions of Triumph and Rover in 1960 a ...

, a defunct vehicle manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire *

Ashok Leyland Ashok Leyland Limited is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturer, with its headquarters in Chennai. It is now owned by the Hinduja Group. It was founded in 1948 as Ashok Motors, which became Ashok Leyland in the year 1955 after collab ...

, an Indian company *

British Leyland British Leyland was a British automotive engineering and manufacturing Conglomerate (company), conglomerate formed in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It wa ...

, a defunct vehicle manufacturer *

Leyland Bus Leyland Bus was a British bus manufacturer based in Farington, Lancashire. It emerged from the Rover Group, formerly known as British Leyland, as a management buyout of the group's bus business. Leyland Bus was subsequently acquired by Volvo B ...

, a defunct bus manufacturer * List of Leyland buses *

Leyland DAF Leyland DAF was a commercial vehicle manufacturing company based in Leyland, Lancashire, Leyland, United Kingdom, and a subsidiary of DAF NV. In February 1993, Leyland DAF was placed into receivership. History Leyland DAF was formed in Febru ...

, a defunct commercial vehicle manufacturer *

Leyland Trucks Leyland Trucks is a medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire, United Kingdom. It can trace its origins back to the original Leyland Motors, which was founded in 1896, and subsequently evolved into British Leyland ...

, a medium and heavy duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland * Leyland Eight, a luxury car *

Leyland P76 The Leyland P76 is a large car that was produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland. Featuring what was described at the time as the "standard Australian wheelbase of 111 inches", it was intended to provide the c ...

, a car

People

* Carl Sonny Leyland (born 1965), English pianist * Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892), English shipowner *

Jim Leyland James Richard Leyland (born December 15, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player, coach and manager. He serves as a special assistant to the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Leyland led the Florida Marlins to t ...

(born 1944), American baseball manager *

Joseph Bentley Leyland Joseph Bentley Leyland (1811–1851) was a sculptor from Halifax, England. His brother was Francis A Leyland, the Halifax antiquarian and publisher, who designed the seal for Halifax Corporation and the coat of arms of Halifax. Joseph was a good ...

(1811-1851), English sculptor * Kellie-Ann Leyland (born 1986), British footballer * Mal Leyland (born 1945), Australian explorer and film-maker *

Maurice Leyland Maurice Leyland (20 July 1900 – 1 January 1967) was an English international cricketer who played 41 Test matches between 1928 and 1938. In first-class cricket, he represented Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1946, scoring ove ...

(1900-1967), English cricketer *

Mike Leyland The Leyland brothers were an English-born Australian duo of explorers and documentary filmmakers, consisting of Michael James "Mike" Leyland, MBE (4 September 1941 – 14 September 2009) and Malcolm Rex "Mal" Leyland, MBE (born 2 October 1944 ...

(1941-2009), Australian explorer and film-maker *

Paul Leyland Paul Leyland is a British astronomer and number theorist who has studied integer factorization and primality testing. He has contributed to the factorization of RSA-129, RSA-140, and RSA-155, as well as potential factorial primes as large as 4 ...

, British mathematician *

Paul Leyland (rugby league) Paul Leyland (St. Helens) and is an English former professional rugby league footballer who was a professional with St. Helens in the Super League and formerly played in their reserve side. He is a by preference but could also play at or . He ...

(born 1986), English rugby league player *

Winston Leyland Francis Winston Leyland (born August 29, 1940) is a British-American author and editor. Called "one of the seminal figures in gay publishing" by the '' San Francisco Sentinel'', he was originally ordained a Catholic priest and later graduated from ...

(born 1940), British-American author

Other

Leyland Band The Leyland Band is a brass band based in Lancashire in the UK. History The Leyland Band was established in 1946 in the heart of industrial Lancashire as the Leyland Motors Band, taking its name from the world famous truck and bus company. N ...

, a British band *

Leyland cypress The Leyland cypress, ''Cupressus'' × ''leylandii'', × ''Cuprocyparis leylandii'' or × ''Cupressocyparis leylandii'', often referred to simply as leylandii, is a fast-growing coniferous evergreen tree much used in horticulture, primarily for h ...

, a tree *

Leyland number In number theory, a Leyland number is a number of the form :x^y + y^x where ''x'' and ''y'' are integers greater than 1. They are named after the mathematician Paul Leyland. The first few Leyland numbers are : 8, 17, 32, 54, 57, 100, 145, ...

, a set of numbers named after Paul Leyland

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