• Leyland has had quite a chequered history, as anyone
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flipping through back numbers of CM will realise and no one would disagree with the suggestion that it is an oldestablished manufacturer. But when I started to read a story entitled "The history of the Leyland fleet," in a recent Lloyds List (claimed to be the oldest newspaper in the world) I thought something was
wrong. For it said that the company commenced business in 1842!
In fact the writer was describing a recent book about R W Leyland and his Liverpool shipping line.
Leyland, it would seem, was a great believer in the economics of big, steel sailing ships for the carriage of lowvalue cargoes, in competition with steamers, and at one time he bought up lots of old sailing ships to carry such cargoes.
Wonder what he would make of a Leyland Roadtrain.