Jim Leyland, a two-time NL Manager of the Year who had won the World Series with the Florida Marlins two years earlier, was expected to bring the Rockies back into contention in 1999.

Boles returned to his previous position as director of player development, and former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Jim Leyland was hired to lead the club in.

Leyland resigned as manager in October 1998, and was replaced by John Boles.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

During its ownership by Ford, Land Rover was once again associated with Jaguar-the first time the two companies had been under the same umbrella since the British Leyland era.

The band name was shortened to Marillion in 1981 to avoid potential copyright conflicts at the same time as Fish and bassist Diz Minnett joined after an audition at Leyland Farm Studios in Buckinghamshire on 2 January 1981.

The company was taken over by the Leyland Line in 1900, but Lord continued service with the new company, and was awarded his first command in 1906 .< ref >

In 1987 DAF merged with the Leyland Trucks division of Rover Group, and was floated on the Dutch stock exchange as DAF NV.

Other vehicles in the DAF range have included the inherited from Leyland trucks Roadrunner ( Badged DAF 600, 800, 1000 On the Continent ) which evolved into the 45 Series, the cab of which was used on the 18 ton gross 55, also as a military spec 4 × 4.

A short-lived model was the 1990-93 80 Series using the T45 Roadtrain cab acquired from the Leyland trucks takeover, fitted with the ATI driveline.

Unhappy with the first decorative result of the original scheme designed by Thomas Jeckyll ( 1827-1881 ), Frederick Leyland left the room in Whistler's care to make minor changes, " to harmonize " the room whose primary purpose was to display Leyland's china collection.

Upon returning, Leyland was shocked by the " improvements.

Among his creditors was Leyland, who oversaw the sale of Whistler's possessions.

From 1923 to 1979 Kingsbury Road was the location of the Vanden Plas specialist motor body works, body makers for Bentley and later part of Austin, BMC, and British Leyland.

Chorley was not listed in the Domesday Book, though it is thought to be one of the twelve berewicks in the Leyland Hundred.

In the 1970s Chorley was designated as part of Central Lancashire new town, together with Preston and Leyland.

Chorley forms a conurbation with Preston and Leyland and was once proposed as being designated part of the Central Lancashire New Town under the New Towns Act, a proposal which was eventually scaled back.

This first regional issue was followed by a second, when the Bedford was retired from the series and replaced, effectively, by the # 32 Leyland Tanker.

He was to co-drive in a Triumph 2500 PI for the British Leyland team in the 1970 London-Mexico rally, but had to turn it down due to movie commitments.

Leyland subsequently commissioned the artist to decorate his dining room ( see Peacock Room below ).

In 1968, in further rationalisations of the British motor industry, BMC became part of the newly formed British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BLMC ), and subsequently, in 1975, the nationalised British Leyland Limited ( BL ).

The bus operations were divested as a management buy-out to form Leyland Bus, and was subsequently bought by Volvo Buses in 1988, which discontinued most of its product range but adopted the Leyland Olympian, re-engineering it as the first named Volvo Bus model, the Volvo Olympian aside from minor frame changes the major alterations were the fitment of volvo axles, braking system and controls.

* 1981-1983 Leyland ( Guy ) Victory 2 air-conditioned, 1981-1983, No code ( subsequently G544 following removal of air-conditioner, 1983-1998 ).

From the 1950s in British service, the 5. 5 was typically towed by an AEC Militant Mk 1 6x6 truck and subsequently the FV 1103 6x6 Medium Artillery Tractor built by Leyland.

Tarleton was a chapelry in the parish of Croston and subsequently a parish in the Leyland hundred.

When Hyundai wanted to develop their own car, they hired George Turnbull, the former Managing Director of Austin Morris at British Leyland.

In 1997, Leyland was hired by Wayne Huizenga to manage the Florida Marlins and promptly led them to the franchise's first championship.

When Hyundai wanted to develop their own car, they hired George Turnbull, the former Managing Director of Austin Morris at British Leyland in 1974.

When Jim Leyland was hired as manager of the Detroit Tigers, he brought former player McClendon on board as bullpen coach.

Newly hired Marlins manager Jim Leyland shifted Conine back to first base in, as the club had acquired free agent Moises Alou to play left field.

* Austin Allegro, a car once manufactured by British Leyland

Further Group B cars were developed by Ford ( the RS200 ), British Leyland ( the Metro 6R4 ) and many others, but these were less successful.

Some of the truck models sold with the DAF brand are designed and built by Leyland Trucks at their plant in England.

" He completely painted over 16th-century Cordoba leather wall coverings first brought to Britain by Catherine of Aragon that Leyland had paid £ 1, 000 for.

A large painted caricature by Whistler of Leyland portraying him as an anthropomorphic peacock playing a piano, and entitled The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre-a pun on Leyland's fondness for frilly shirt fronts-is now in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Despite its fame, the earlier and more numerous London bus classes that the Routemaster replaced ( the RT-type AEC Regent and its Leyland Titan RTL and RTW counterparts ) are often mistaken for Routemasters by the public and by the media .< ref name = autogenerated1 >

By the end of that year, the fleet had expanded to five double-deck vehicles: two by Critchley-Norris, two by Lancashire Steam ( predecessor of Leyland Motors ) and one by Ryknield.

Also during world war two a six-cylinder 300 cubic inch road-vehicle engine was commissioned by the government, but this design was sold to Leyland Motors by 1945.

Mr. Bean's car, a British Leyland Mini 1000, developed its own character of sorts over the series and was central to several antics, such as Mr. Bean getting dressed in it, driving while sitting in an armchair strapped to the roof, starting it with a number of locks and keys, or attempting to avoid a parking garage toll by driving out through the entrance.

Later the two firms would be drawn together and a large number of complicated take-overs by such firms as British Leyland led to the wheeled tractor concern being owned by Bentall Simplex in the early 80s.

Volvo Buses bought out Leyland Buses in 1990 and by 1993, the factory had closed with the loss of 200 jobs.

File: Southdown 649. JPG | A Leyland Tiger used by Southdown Motor Services in England

In the 1960s, Michelotti designed a glass-reinforced plastic ( GRP ) cab for certain lorries made by Scammell, who had become part of Leyland Motors in 1955.