Albion Automotive of Scotstoun, Glasgow is a previous Scottish auto
and business vehicle maker, right now included in the assembling and
supply of Automotive segment frameworks.
Today the organization is a subsidiary of American Axle &
Manufacturing, and fabricates axles, driveline frameworks, case
frameworks, crankshafts and suspension segments. It is Scotland’s best
known name in the engine business. Albions were eminent for their
trademark “Sure as the Sunrise”.
Initially regarded as Albion Motor Car Company Ltd, the organization
was established in 1899 by Thomas Blackwood Murray and Norman Osborne
Fulton (both of whom had formerly been included in Arrol-Johnston) they
were joined several years after the fact by John F Henderson who
furnished extra capital. The processing plant was initially on the first
story of a building in Finnieston Street, Glasgow and had just seven
workers. In 1903 the organization moved to new premises in Scotstoun.
The Albion Motor Car Company Ltd was renamed Albion Motors in 1930.
In 1951, Leyland Motors assumed control. After the British Leyland
Motor Corporation was established in 1968, generation proceeded with the
Albion Chieftain, Clydesdale & Reiver trucks and the Albion Viking
transport models. Generation of these was then moved to the Leyland
plant at Bathgate in 1980. In 1969, the organization assumed control
over the neighbouring Coventry Ordnance Works on South Street, which it
keeps on operaing from.
Leyland dropped the Albion name when the organization name was
changed to Leyland (Glasgow) and later to Leyland-DAF from 1987 when it
turned into a subsidiary of that Dutch concern.
An administration purchase out in 1993 carried Albion Automotive as
it was thereupon known go into Scottish proprietorship. Another holder,
the American Axle & Manufacturing Company (AAM) of Detroit,
Michigan, assumed control Albion in 1998.
Albion LogoAlbion Vehicle Model list:
1915 Albion 15
1912 Albion 15
1900 Albion 8
