Freight Rover was the single light van brand that British Leyland created in 1981 inside its Land Rover Group, replacing the Leyland and Austin-Morris badges on its light commercial range. Its only product line was the Sherpa family of panel vans, essentially face-lifted, badge-engineered versions of the first-generation Leyland Sherpa, built at Washwood Heath in Birmingham. The brand fell under Leyland Trucks, merged into Leyland DAF in 1987, and the van plant became the independent LDV Group after the DAF collapse of 1993.
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Freight Rover was created as a division of the Land Rover Group of British Leyland (BL) in 1981, creating a new single brand for BL's light commercial vehicle range, which had previously been sold under the Leyland and Austin-Morris brands (although car derived vans such as those based on the Morris Ital and Austin Metro
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Freight Rover was a British light commercial vehicle manufacturer and originally part of British Leyland (BLMC/BL) and later the Rover Group which existed from 1981 to 1987, and was based in the Washwood Heath area of Birmingham, England.
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Freight Rover was a British light commercial vehicle manufacturer and originally part of British Leyland (BLMC/BL) and later the Rover Group which existed from 1981 to 1987, and was based in the Washwood Heath area of Birmingham, England.
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