Leyland - Home of shite, soon to become shite homes

[Father Ted]

Leyland Cars Test Track going to become a new housing estate

I feel a spot of urbex and maybe even Italian Jobbery coming up soon.

[VWPowered]

do it, whilst you can

[Station]

It's a shame, they'll build on everything that hasn't been in use for a couple of years. I used to have to deliver stuff near here.

[warren t claim]

Another bit of our history destroyed. Slightly O/T but whoever thought it was a good idea to carve up Brooklands needs slapping as well.

[Guest Tony Hayers]

I feel a spot of urbex coming up soon.

What a good idea

 

Hey, warren t claim - is that woman flashing her arse in a Sierra?

[Cavcraft]

What actually happened to LDV then Marty? I know they went pop but do they not have all the old tooling/half finished vans (weren't they all?) and shit knocking about?

[warren t claim]

 

I feel a spot of urbex coming up soon.

 

 

Hey, warren t claim - is that woman flashing her arse in a Sierra?

She has her pants on! And yes, it's a Sierra.

 

I will change it if anyone gets offended by it!

[Milford Cubicle]

Published on Thu Jun 07 11:06:59 BST 2007

Might be a bit late.

[pogweasel]

Unoffended.

Would like to know the source though - have you been combing through 1980's back issues of "Readers Wives"??

 

Anyway, LDV, slightly on-topic, I saw a truckload of LDV cabs (like you'd add a chassis then some GRP bodywork) on the M6 the other day. The lorry looked like it might have been some kind of pikey scrap merchant affair. So presumably anything left is being essentially given away.

[dollywobbler]

What actually happened to LDV then Marty? I know they went pop but do they not have all the old tooling/half finished vans (weren't they all?) and shit knocking about?

LDV was just the van department in Birmingham, which used to be Morris Commercials. Leyland trucks hail from actual Leyland.

[Lankytim]

LDV trucks are now built by DAF in Holland I think.

[VWPowered]

 

I feel a spot of urbex coming up soon.

What a good idea

 

Hey, warren t claim - is that woman farting in the Sierra? cos i canz smell it

edited for correctness

[Cavcraft]

What actually happened to LDV then Marty? I know they went pop but do they not have all the old tooling/half finished vans (weren't they all?) and shit knocking about?

LDV was just the van department in Birmingham, which used to be Morris Commercials. Leyland trucks hail from actual Leyland.

Aha, thankyou.

 

Tim: take it DAF have 'done an MAN' and bought a make up then dry bummed it for the name and fucked off abroad?

[VWPowered]

wasnt LDV purchased by russians and driven into the ground??

[VWPowered]

http://www.ldvgb.com/

 

they have a site too

 

Robert Jonathan Hunt, Mark David Charles Hopkins and David Matthew Hammond have been appointed as joint administrators of LDV Group Limited and Birmingham Pressings Limited (“the Companiesâ€Â). The joint administrators act as agents of the Companies and contract without personal liability.

Robert Jonathan Hunt, Mark David Charles Hopkins and David Matthew Hammond are licensed to act as insolvency practitioners by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDV_Group

 

After a series of failed rescue attempts in 2009, the assets of the company were sold by administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers to China Venture's firm Eco Concept, on 15th October, 2009

[Mr Lobster]

I thought they still made trucks in Leyland? I thought (and I could be wrong) that the cabs come over from Holland and are mated to the chassis here? You certainly see a fair number of trucks with a load of new cabs on the back in the area anyway.

[Guest]

Leyland Trucks is still going, now American owned:

http://www.leylandtrucksltd.co.uk/

Shame about the test track, I remember being driven round it in a Volvo bus when I did work experience from school back in the mid '90s, fastest bus trip ever!

[Cavcraft]

I thought they still made trucks in Leyland? I thought (and I could be wrong) that the cabs come over from Holland and are mated to the chassis here? You certainly see a fair number of trucks with a load of new cabs on the back in the area anyway.

I've not seen them but have spotted a few Dutch registered low loaders with brand new LDV badged commercials on the back.

 

Still fancy a Leyland Daf 45 recovery truck with a 6 pot Cummins turbo motor.

[autofive]

Hey, warren t claim - is that woman flashing her arse in a Sierra?

COR

 

a sierra

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Yes it is a shame that places like this are being obliterated from the UK landscape, it's part of our industrial heritage that is being lost.

 

I was having a look around the old Hillman/Humber/Peugeot works Ryton in Coventry on Streetview a few days ago - very sad.

 

One day old farts will stand on these housing/trading estates and say things like "they used to build cars here". Youngsters will simply scoff because it could never have been seen as possible and simply view the old fart as being confused and senile.

 

[Father Ted]

Aye - where my house is this used to be:-

There were once people in cloth caps.

And one of the machine beds didnt half give me hassle when I was building an extension.

[Father Ted]

 

You Tubery from 2004

[Lord Sterling]

Sad ending to another piece of our history. Not surprised though. Almost anything to do with our heritage has a load of houses/shops plonked on top. Soon Britain will be nothing but one huge housing estate with a few Huge Tescos type stores and "Acadamies" (F*cking hate that word) dotted around the place. We will have nothing about our past heritage to show future generations.

 

Warren, like the avatar, but I liked the one before with the girl at the side of the road. Have got a bigger version of that pic?

[3idave]

that tracks 2 mins from mine i shall have to have a mooooch

[Milford Cubicle]

Do you know if it's been built over then? The story that prompted this thread is 3 years old.

[Albert Ross]

Wouldn't mind putting the Scorp through it's paces on that track.................if it never overheated that is..................

[Father Ted]

Do you know if it's been built over then? The story that prompted this thread is 3 years old.

Are you going off the comments on You Tube?

 

Nope its still there - the public planning meeting was tonight.

 

Its been talked about off and on for ages but never actually happened ( a bit like the old steam sheds at Lostock Hall, first it was housing, then its going to be a Gypsy camp, now its going to be "open space" for the public to enjoy - aye once the several thousand tons of concrete and old bricks have been cleared away then, not to mention the fact the ground is polluted.) The current big housing plan is 800 homes on the site of the old gas works....

800 homes on the brown bit

 

Im off for a gander at the test track on Tues after work - got my Hi Viz, got my clipboard, got my hard hat fro Wimpey......

[Milford Cubicle]

No, the article you linked to is dated June 7th, 2007.

Good to know it hasn't been obliterated by rabbit hutches yet.

[Father Ted]

No, the article you linked to is dated June 7th, 2007.

Good to know it hasn't been obliterated by rabbit hutches yet.

Ahh right - thats me not looking - it was in the paper again last night (just after the locals mahoosive public outcry at plans being passed for a new mosque in a conservation area) so I tapped into the web to link to it - trust the LEP not to put recent articles on the interweb!

 

2009

[Milford Cubicle]

(just after the locals mahoosive public outcry at plans being passed for a new mosque in a conservation area)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=1 ... 359&ref=ts