£410M British Leyland Group To Storm The World Market By MAURICE CORINA and PHILIP JACOBSON After months of tough behind-the-scenes negotiations-brought to a head in the past four days by…

Motor Merger Is Britain’s Biggest £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…

Million Vehicles a Year Target for B.M.H.-Leyland Geoffrey Charles, Motoring Correspondent of The Times, explains the importance to the motorist of the B.M.H.-Leyland merger, announced yesterday. The B.M.H.-Leyland merger puts the…

B.M.C. Tops Car Output League 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…

‘One Of The Main Criticisms Has Been Too Many Models, Too Little Market Research. That’s All Bunkum’ Sir George Harriman, chairman of British Leyland Motor Corporation, talks to GEOFFREY CHARLES,…

Creative Role For Issigonis In B.M.C. Board Switch 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…

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 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…

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 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: 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…

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…

1970: The Beatles 1970. The Beatles, the best selling music act of all time, release their last Album and Paul McCartney announces their break-up at the end of the year.…

1971: Decimalisation 1971. The U.K. changed it’s currency, a process known as Decimalisation, on February 15th . The I.R.A. bomb The Post Office Tower (now called the B.T, Tower) in…

1972: Troubles, Strikes & Unemployment 1972. The U.S. brings to an end its most divisive and unsuccessful military campaign as the last US ground troops withdraw from Vietnam. It’s a…

1973: P5 & P5B: The End 1973. Inflation has a significant impact on peoples lives, with the UK inflation rate running at 9.2% and the US running at 6.2% .…

It’s taken almost 6 months, but finally I’ve made an offer on a car – 1968, Silver Birch over Admiralty Blue, Buckskin leather with Mortlake Brown carpets. Widely accepted to be…

We collected the Rover yesterday – caught the train to Trowbridge then drove the car back, via a stop-off at Stonehenge to see the new Visitor Centre. All went pretty…