1968 Jaguar XJ6 (BLMC) Rover 800-series/Sterling (ARG) More here Employees 250,000 Parent British Leyland Ltd from 1975 (later called BL Ltd, BL plc and finally Rover Group plc) British Leyland was a vehicle-manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC). It was partly nationalised