page_title: British Motor Corporation
section_title: Light vans
hierarchical_section_title: British Motor Corporation / Commercial vehicles / Light vans
caption_attribution_description: Morris Commercial JB van of 1957. Photograph by myself taken on 3 September 2006, Cheshire, UK
context_page_description: The British Motor Corporation Limited was a UK-based vehicle manufacturer, formed in early 1952 to give effect to an agreed merger of the Morris and Austin businesses.
  BMC acquired the shares in Morris Motors and the Austin Motor Company. Morris Motors, the holding company of the productive businesses of the Nuffield Organisation, owned MG, Riley, and Wolseley.
  The agreed exchange of shares in Morris or Austin for shares in the new holding company, BMC, became effective in mid-April 1952.
  In September 1965, BMC took control of its major supplier of bodies, Pressed Steel, acquiring Jaguar's body supplier in the process. In September 1966, BMC merged with Jaguar Cars. In December 1966, BMC changed its name to British Motor Holdings Limited.
  BMH merged, in May 1968, with Leyland Motor Corporation Limited, which made trucks and buses and owned Standard-Triumph International Limited, BMH becoming the major part of British Leyland Motor Corporation.
context_section_description: Austin K8 1948–1954
  Morris J-type 1949–1960
  Morris LD 1952–1968
  Morris J2 1956–1967
  Morris 250 JU 1967–
  Austin/Morris J4 1960–1974
caption: A 1957 Morris JB Van
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