by Richard | Friday, 29 September, 1967 | Library, Media Magazine, Timeline (Brochures Magazines) |
Magazine Autosport Magazine, 29 September 1967 Autosport magazine road test the new P5B in September 1967, just as the car launches. As was typical of the age, the road test in almost entirely positive (apparently the steering is “impossible to fault”,...
by Richard | Tuesday, 1 August, 1967 | Library, Media Brochure, Timeline (Brochures Magazines) |
Rover Brochure Rover, August 1967 Rover Brochure 1967. 1968 model year. 16 pages, A4, portrait, full colour, stapled. 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...
by Richard | Sunday, 1 January, 1967 | Timeline (Brochures Magazines), Timeline (News) |
1967 – Classic Rover P5 (3 Litre) and P5B (3.5 Litre). In Vietnam, a total of 475,000 US troops are serving by 1967, and at home protests against the war increase. The Boxer Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing world championship for refusing to serve in the...
by Richard | Saturday, 1 January, 1966 | Timeline (Brochures Magazines), Timeline (News) |
1966 – Classic Rover P5 (3 Litre) and P5B (3.5 Litre) The US now has nearly 500,000 troops fighting in Vietnam. The US and USSR continue the space race to see who would be the first to land a man on the moon. The fashions of both America and UK are heavily...
by Richard | Friday, 1 January, 1965 | Timeline (Brochures Magazines), Timeline (News) |
1965 – Classic Rover P5 (3 Litre) and P5B (3.5 Litre) The war in Vietnam continues to worsen: whatever the U.S. does fails to halt the rise in deaths of American servicemen, and at the same time the anti-war movement grows. On November 13th 1965, 35,000 people...
by Richard | Wednesday, 1 January, 1964 | Timeline (Brochures Magazines), Timeline (News) |
1964 – Classic Rover P5 (3 Litre) and P5B (3.5 Litre) As the war in Vietnam intensifies, increasing numbers of American servicemen are dying. The Beatles take the world and America by storm and Beatlemania goes into overdrive as they released a series of number...