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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 432

Leyland Motors Limited, a specimen certificate from the Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. archive for ordinary stock, 19-, circa 1919, blue, overprinted specimen in red, tiny tear at bottom edge, extremely fine. Had its origins with the Lancashire Steam Motor Co., building lorries and buses in Leyland, Lancashire. Renamed Leyland Motors Ltd. in 1907 after acquiring Coulthards of Preston. Reconstructed as Leyland Motors (1914) Ltd. and again as above in 1919. Several other name changes and reconstructions have occurred, first to Leyland Motor Corporation, then British Leyland, then by 1986 part of the Rover Group. Estimate £ 30-40

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