Freight Rover


Freight Rover was a British commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Washwood Heath, England.

History

Freight Rover was created as a division of the Land Rover Group of British Leyland in 1981, creating a new single brand for BL's panel van business. Essentially Freight Rovers were face-lifted, badge engineered Leyland Sherpas.
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, merged with the Dutch truck company DAF Trucks to form DAF NV, which was later floated on the Dutch stock market. The British arm of the new company traded as Leyland DAF, with two main sites in the UK: the truck plant in Leyland and the vans plant in Washwood Heath.
Following the collapse of DAF NV in 1993, the van business was the subject of a management buyout and a new independent van company, LDV Group, was established.

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