Rover Cars, 1938
Author : Rover Company Ltd
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Page : 21 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Rover automobile
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Author : Rover Company Ltd
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Rover automobile
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Author : W. A. G. Martin
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : William Alexander Gibson Martin
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Automobiles
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Author : James Taylor
Publisher : In Detail
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2022-12-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781914929021
Rovers of the 1930s In Detail extends its comprehensive and detailed coverage back into the late 1920s, when the first of the 1930s models were introduced, and forward into 1947, when the 1930s models that had been revived after the war finally went out of production.
Author : W. A. Gibson Martin
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : James Taylor
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2024-08-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0719844134
Like other British motor manufacturers, the Rover Company spent World War II helping the war effort rather than building cars. Bombed out of its original home in Coventry during the Blitz in 1940, it was fortunate in 1945 to be able to move into the new factory at Solihull that it had been managing on behalf of the Air Ministry. The Solihull factory was not only new: it was huge. Its size presented Rover with a welcome opportunity for expansion, but first the company had to get back into the game. With no new car designs ready, Rover's only option was to re-start production with mildly improved versions of their pre-war models. New models were a long time coming. Early ideas focused on a small economy car, but it soon became clear that this was not what the public wanted. Meanwhile, ambitious plans for a new and ultra-modern car, using mechanical elements that had been under development before the war, had to be put back when there were delays in designing a satisfactory modern body style. As a temporary measure, Rover added their new mechanical elements to modified pre-war style bodies to deliver the P3 models in 1948. The solution was unexpected. Rover's Chief Engineer had bought a war-surplus Jeep for his own use, and he quickly realised that Rover could easily build something similar that civilian users both at home and abroad would find useful. Combining their new engine with the simplest of chassis and body to save time and costs, Rover had the Land-Rover ready shortly after the new P3 – and its immediate world-wide success took them by surprise. It had plans, too – far too many to put into production. There were gas turbine-powered cars inspired by the company's wartime jet engine work; there was a hybrid of Rover car and Land-Rover called the Road-Rover; and there were ideas for expanding the existing model ranges and adding more. By 1953, when the story told in this book ends, Rover was ready to introduce new saloons and Land-Rovers that would see it comfortably through the 1950s. Not only had it survived, but it was in better health than ever before.
Author : William Alexander Gibson Martin
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398101222
Wonderfully illustrated look at the Rover 200 and 400 models and their variants written by an acknowledged authority on Rover cars.
Author : Rover Co
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Rover automobile
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Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Automobiles
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