Leyland
Proper noun
Meaning
A habitational surname from Old English.
A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.
A town in South Ribble district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5421).
A truck or bus formerly manufactured by the Leyland company.
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Examples
Ashok Leyland was top index loser, followed by TVS Motors, Hero MotoCorp and Tata Motors.
Carlos Ghosn was appointed Chairman of the Board of AvtoVAZ on 27 June 2013. citation * Nissan is in an alliance with Ashok Leyland in India, producing light commercial vehicles.
Dave Leyland, a business development manager in the architectural facade industry, said he and his family had been "absolutely destroyed by the way we are being treated".
“It was an odd year horticulturally speaking with a normal spring, decent summer and an atypically dry fall, so it’s good that the trees – the Leyland cypress and Virginian pines that are grown locally – fared relatively well,” he said.
After spending so much of ratepayers’ hard-earned cash to enhance the heritage of Leyland, the Leyland Cross cobbles disappeared.
DS Ian Derbyshire from Chorley CID previosuly described the Leyland robbery as “an extremely traumatic incident”.