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BLMC's new Austin Morris network
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• A new distributor network for Austin and Morris commercial vehicles was announced last week by the British Leyland Motor Corporation.
The combined total of 223 distributors for the two makes was reduced, as from August 1, to 141. most of those losing the franchise being in the smaller towns.
At a meeting in Longbridge Mr. Trevor Webster, sales director of BL's truck and bus division said that the network would market the BMC trucks produced in the truck and bus division's factory at Bathgate in Scotland, and the medium commercials manufactured at the light commercial vehicle factory at Adderley Park. Birmingham. Car-derived commercial vehicles such as Mini-vans, produced on the car assembly lines at Longbridge, would be handled by British Leyland's volume car and light commercial vehicle division, through its network of car distributors.
BMC and Leyland/Albion commercial vehicle sales would be integrated and the sales staffs of the two groups would be brought together into one team. This did not mean, however, that Leyland and Albion distributors would receive BMC distributor appointments or vice versa.
Mr. Webster announced the appointment of Mr. 'Bernard Pickup. truck sales manager of Leyland/Albion in Great Britain, as home truck sales manager of British Ley land's truck and bus division, with Mr. W. Rasta11, BMC Commercial vehicle sales manager, as distribution manager, truck and bus division, responsible to Mr. Pickup. He said that Mr. C. W. Baker, at present BMC director of commercial vehicle saies, was shortly moving to an important appointment in the corporation's volume car division.
The new network will market vehicles under the BMC name instead of the former Austin and Morris denominations. The letters BMC on the front of the truck will he surmounted by the new British Leyland symbol.