Mergers: Auto Alliance

The last major British-owned auto manufacturers, British Motor Holdings and Leyland Motor Corp., have decided that cooperation can be more profitable than competition. They have joined forces to form British Leyland Motor Corp., which will be the second largest carmaker in Europe (after Germany's Volkswagen) and fifth largest in the world, and will have annual sales of $2 billion. Its hefty catalogue of cars will include B.M.H.'s Austins, Morrises, Rileys, Wolseleys, M.G.s and Jaguars, and Leyland's Triumphs and Rovers along with its buses and heavy trucks.

With a production line geared to roll out over 1,000,000 vehicles a year, B.L.M....

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