The Rover brochure from late 1969. Rover were frugal in reusing images – most of the images here were from the cars launch in 1967.
Rover 3½ Litre Brochure 1968. A beautiful brochure for the P5B that features some wonderful photos, many of which were used in subsequent years right through to 1973.
The ‘Literature Pack’ that was supplied with every new Rover P5B. The 3.5 Litre was supplied with a plastic wallet that contained the following items…
Rover are leading their passenger car brochure with the P5B. That makes sense as the car had only just been launched (in P5B form) at the British International Motor Show, Earls Court, London, from 18th to 28th October.
By GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent A concerted, one-model assault is to be launched on the United States car market today by the British Motor Corporation, with what they hope will prove an effective reply to the successful penetration achieved by Volkswagen and the Japanese manufacturers. B.M.C. has produced a special…
By GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent A high-level reshuffle of B.M.C. directors’ areas of responsibility was announced yesterday as part of a streamlining process before completion of the B.M.H.- Leyland merger. The moves centre on the decision by Alec Issigonis, B.M.C.’s technical director, to devote himself full-time to more creative and…
Sir George Harriman, chairman of British Leyland Motor Corporation, talks to GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent, about the company’s plans Sir George Harriman pointed from the window of his Longbridge office. “That”, he said, “is the answer to our critics, at home and abroad. That’s what they should see-and it’s happening…
During the first nine months of 1967, British Motor Corporation produced 35½ per cent of all cars manufactured in Britain. This is shown by figures issued by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders yesterday. Out of a total production of 1,149,503 cars, BMC, excluding Jaguar, produced 407,840, Ford 324,978…
By MAURICE CORINA and PHILIP JACOBSON After months of tough behind-the-scenes negotiations-brought to a head in the past four days by Leyland Motor’s determination to bid, if necessary, for British Motor Holdings-the biggest merger in Britain’s industrial history has been concluded successfully. The formation of the British Leyland Motor Corporation, hurriedly announced yesterday…
£800m sales a year for BMH-Leyland group BY OUR BUSINESS NEWS STAFF A £410m. merger between British Motor Holdings and Leyland Motors was announced yesterday. The biggest in the history of British industry, it will create British Leyland Motor Corporation, fifth biggest company in the United Kingdom and one of the top three motor…