Standard-Triumph news
5 September 1963
STANDARD TRIUMPH NEWS
New Leyland marketing division
Leyland Motor announces today the formation of the Leyland Light Commercial Vehicle Division , to be established at the Standard-Triumph factories in Coventry. The new organisation will be responsible for the marketing in the United Kingdom of all commercial vehicles manufactured by Standard Triumph under the Leyland trade mark.
Mr Stanley Markland, Standard Triumph managing director and a director of Leyland Motors, said : "The formation of this new division is a mark of our determination to obtain a much larger share of the ever growing light commercial vehicle market "
A separate distribution network in the United Kingdom of selected Standard-Triumph and Leyland dis tributors has been set up to hold the new franchise for Leyland light commercial vehicles.
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