SPW027266 SCOTLAND (1929). Albion Motor Works, South Street, Glasgow. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing east. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.
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Title | [SPW027266] Albion Motor Works, South Street, Glasgow. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing east. This image has been produced from a damaged negative. |
Reference | SPW027266 |
Date | 1929 |
Link | Canmore Collection item 1256833 |
Place name | |
Parish | RENFREW (CITY OF GLASGOW) |
District | CITY OF GLASGOW |
Country | SCOTLAND |
Easting / Northing | 252570, 667650 |
Longitude / Latitude | -4.3570232163532, 55.879437859655 |
National Grid Reference | NS526677 |
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The Albion Motor Car Company Ltd was renamed Albion Motors in 1930 just months after this aerial picture was taken.
In 1951, Leyland Motors took over. After the British Leyland Motor Corporation was founded in 1968, production continued with the Albion Chieftain, Clydesdale & Reiver trucks and the Albion Viking bus models. Production of these was then moved to the Leyland plant at Bathgate in 1980. In 1969, the company took over the neighbouring Coventry Ordnance Works on South Street, which it continues to operate from.
Leyland dropped the Albion name when the company name was changed to Leyland (Glasgow) and later to Leyland-DAF from 1987 when it became a subsidiary of that Dutch concern.
A management buy-out in 1993 brought Albion Automotive as it was thenceforth known back into Scottish ownership. A new owner, the American Axle & Manufacturing Company (AAM) of Detroit, Michigan, took over Albion in 1998. |
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