Lancashire enterprise
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+ Since the recession that turned the former Leyland heartland into something of a wasteland—a situation made worse by the demise of Leyland Daf—Lancashire County , Enterprises has, with EU help, managed to attract roughly .£11m to help with the region's re-development.
The Leyland Enterprise Park has gradually filled with companies able to tap into the abundance of truck engineering skills readily available and willing to contribute to the overall investment.
As well as TVAC, they include the machine tooling group Albion Automotive and air suspension and chassis conversion specialist Drinkwater Chassis Engineering (which incidentally was first into the park). Another, Leyland Product Developments (LPII) is based in the old Leyland Test Centre: and not too far away is Leyland Exports which continues to sell vehicles and spares into third world markets.
Paccar, having recently purchased Leyland Trucks, builds Oaf 45. 55, 65 models and Foden Alphas there, and it has the testing services spe cialists Leyland Technical Centre as near neighbours.