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
1967 – Year Preview
1967: The Summer Of Love 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…
Rover Brochure 1967
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…
Autosport Magazine, 29 September 1967
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…
The Rover Review Magazine, October 1967
Magazine The Rover Review Magazine, October 1967
The Rover-produced quarterly magazine for members of The Rover Owners Association, the club operated by Rover to stay in contact with…
Motor Show 1967 Official Catalogue
Catalogue Motor Show, 52nd International Motor Exhibition 18-28 October 1967 Motor Show, 52nd International Motor Exhibition, 18-28 October 1967, Official Catalogue.
Motor Show 1967 Official Catalogue. The official…
1968 – Year Preview
1968. In both Europe and America, imports of Japanese cars and other goods continue to rise, troubling the governments of the U.K. and U.S.A. as they worry about industries in…
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.