Leyland DAF was formed in February 1987 when the Leyland Trucks division, including the Freight Rover van making interests, of the British Rover Group merged with the Dutch DAF Trucks company to form DAF NV which was owned by DAF Beheer (60%) and Rover Group (40%). In June 1989 it was floated on the Dutch and London Stock Exchanges. The new company traded as Leyland DAF in the United Kingdom, and as DAF elsewhere.
The company manufactured trucks at its plants in Leyland, England and Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and vans at its Birmingham plant in the England.
Following the insolvency of DAF NV in February 1993, Leyland DAF went into receivership. Four new companies emerged from it as management buyouts
LDV Group as a van manufacturer based in Birmingham.
Multipart Solutions, which was formed out of the firms parts company based in Chorley
Leyland Trucks as a truck manufacturer based in Leyland
Albion Automotive as a truck components manufacturer based in Glasgow and Leyland
Leyland Trucks and DAF Trucks (the Dutch successor to DAF NV) both later came back together as subsidiaries of the American truck giant Paccar.
In July 1994, Leyland Technical Centre, formerly part of the Leyland DAF global test operations, and located close to the Leyland Trucks site also emerged as a management buyout. In February 2005, the company was renamed MI Technology Group and in 2013, the CSA Group In June 2017, it was purchased by Spectris, owners of the Millbrook Proving Ground.
Danzas was founded in 1815 and was originally based in Saint-Louis, Alsace, France.
Louis Danzas fought at Waterloo for Napoleon. After that battle, he joined a transport company owned by Michel l'Eveque and by 1840 became joint owner. The company, Danzas and l'Eveque, obtained a mail delivery franchise from Le Havre to New York City in 1846. A Basel branch was opened in 1854.
The company began to use air transport in 1920 between France and England, and opened its own freight terminal in Paris in 1962.
In 2000, Deutsche Post World Net acquired Danzas. When Deutsche Post AG acquired 100% of DHL International in 2002, it fully integrated Danzas, DHL and EuroExpress under the DHL brand, thus renaming Danzas to DHL Danzas Air & Ocean.[4]
In 2005, Deutsche Post dropped the Danzas brand and renamed the business unit to DHL Global Forwarding/DHL Freight.
In 2006, it also combined parts of Danzas and other ground-based freight subsidiaries in its Global Forwarding, Freight division.
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