Rover P5 (3 Litre) and P5B (3.5 Litre) Brochures and Magazines
Brochures, magazines, literature and adverts. These show what a buyer may have read as they considered the purchase of a new P5 or P5B, together with some of the alternatives they might consider in period road tests, as well as the literature that came with the cars when supplied new by Rover.
These scans are provided to add to the understanding of these cars. All of these documents I own and have scanned myself, but copyright is obviously held by the respective parties. Given the passage of time since these were created they are approaching the end of copyright, and under fair-use terms I hope nobody objects. If you do, please let me know.
Timeline
On the timeline below, click any item to open it in a new page for reading.
Rover P5 Launches: 22nd September 1958
1958 – Year Preview
1958: E.E.C. Founded The USA’s first satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, NASA is formed, and the first Microchip is envisaged by Texas Instruments in 1958. In Britain, the first…
1959 – Year Preview
1959: Hovercraft Invented The Boeing 707 Jet Airliner enters service. Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba, and the Dalai Lama is forced to flee Tibet. On 12th September the…
Rover The 3-Litre Saloon Brochure 1959
Rover Brochure Rover The 3-Litre Saloon, January 1959 1959 model year. 16 pages, landscape, full colour, stapled.
Rover The 3-Litre Saloon. This is one of the most luxurious brochures Rover…
Rover 3-Litre Brochure 1959
Rover Brochure Rover 3-Litre, 1959 Rover 3-Litre Brochure 1959. 1960 model year. 8 pages, larger than A4, portrait, full colour, folded.
A lightweight brochure for the Rover 3-Litre, featuring…
Rover Brochure 1959
Rover Brochure Rover, 1959 1960 model year. 8 pages, landscape, full colour, folded.
Rover brochure for the 1960 model year, believed to be produced around October 1959. Most manufacturers used…
1960 – Year Preview
1960: U2 Spy Plane The cold war intensifies as USSR and the west become increasingly distrustful of each other, and a Russian missile shoots down an American U2 spy plane.…
Rover P5B Production Ends: 22nd June 1973
Total Rover P5 Production: 48,248
Total Rover P5B Production: 20.600
Date Order
Items are presented in date order to show the progression from launch in 1958 through to the end of production in 1973. For brochures I’m using the publication year and month, not the model year they represent (before 1966, model years tended to run from October to September, and from 1966 from August to July, so a Brochure published in August 1967 is often referred to as a 1968 model year brochure).
All very confusing, so I’ve just used the publication dates so that brochures are in correct date order with magazine articles and other media.