Details

Name

Albion Motor Car Company Ltd

Brief Biography

1899 - 1930, Scottish

Occupation

Automobile Manufacturers

Description

The Albion Motor Car Company Ltd was founded in 1899 by Thomas Blackwood Murray and Norman Osborne Fulton and some years later, by John F Henderson. Originally based in Finnieston, they moved to Scotstoun in 1903. They were renamed Albion Motors in 1930. 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 then known and brought it back into Scottish ownership. A new owner, the American Axle & Manufacturing Company (AAM) of Detroit, Michigan, took over Albion in 1998. Today the company continues to be a subsidiary and manufactures axles, driveline systems, chassis systems, crankshafts and chassis components.