Albion Motors Ltd

Sectors:

  • Transport equipment production Motor vehicle engines & components production
  • Transport equipment production Motor vehicle production

Notes:

Established 1899 in Glasgow / Scotstoun as Albion Motor Car Co Ltd by, inter alia, Thomas B Murray. Built commercial vehicles, largely lorries and buses, although cars were made from 1900 to 1915. Renamed Albion Motors Ltd 1931. Acquired by Leyland Motors Ltd, later British Leyland Motor Corp Ltd, in 1951 after which Albion name was dropped in 1972. Production moved to Bathgate in 1980 but component manufacture continued at Scotstoun and was subject to a management buyout in 1993 as Albion Automotive. This business was acquired by American Axle in 1998 [2024]

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