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
The Times, 21 March 1968 : 1-Model US Drive By B.M.C.
1-Model US Drive By BMC 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,…
Rover Brochure 1968
Rover Brochure Rover, August 1968 Rover Brochure 1968. 1969 model year. 16 pages, A4, portrait, full colour, stapled.
After it’s brief spell in the limelight the previous year, the…
Rover 3.5 Litre Literature Pack 1968
Literature Pack Rover 3.5 Litre, August 1968 A ‘Literature Pack’ was supplied with every new Rover. The 3.5 Litre was supplied with a plastic wallet that contained the following items: Owner’s…
Rover 3½ Litre Brochure 1968
Rover Brochure Rover 3½ Litre Brochure, August 1968 1969 model year. 18 pages, larger than A4, landscape, full colour, stapled.
Rover 3½ Litre Brochure 1968. A beautiful brochure for the P5B…
1969 – Year Preview
1969: 10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…The Moon 1969. On 20th July one of mans crowning achievements takes place when astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the Moon, uttering the…
1969 Rover Brochure
Brochure Rover, August 1969 1970 model year. 16 pages, A4, portrait, full colour, stapled.
The Rover brochure from late 1969, for the 1970 model year. Rover were certainly…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.