- Freight Rover
Freight Rover was a British commercial vehicle manufacturer based in
Birmingham ,England .History
The company was created as a division of the
Land Rover Group ofBritish Leyland (BL) in 1981, creating a new single brand for BL's panel van business.Under later company organisation changes "Freight Rover" became part of the Leyland Trucks division of BL.
In 1987 the "Leyland Trucks division" of, what was by then, the
Rover Group (following the renaming of BL in 1986), merged with the Dutch truck companyDAF Trucks , to form the new independentDAF NV company which soon after was floated on the Dutch stock market. The British arm of the new company traded asLeyland DAF , with two main sites in the UK: the truck plant in Leyland and the vans plant in Birmingham.Note: following the collapse of DAF NV in 1993 the Birmingham van business was the subject of a
management buyout and a new independent van company,LDV Limited , was created.Vehicles
*Sherpa/200 Series
*300 Series
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