The Rover story

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The Rover story

Graham Robson ; foreword by J. Graham Day

Stephens, 1988

4th ed

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注記

Includes index

Previous ed.: 1984

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The latest edition of this detailed study of the British motor company has been updated to include recent developments within the Rover Group and the takeover by British Aerospace. It traces the company's history from its roots in the Coventry bicycle trade to its present-day international status.

目次

  • From a humble bicycle
  • birth, growth, crisis
  • Wilks brothers to the rescue
  • underground, overground - Rover's war machines
  • one of Britain's fine cars - the "Auntie" era
  • world pioneers - the gas turbine cars
  • a Rover for the farmer
  • the young generation takes over
  • carving a new image - racing and rallying
  • modern times - vee-8s and Range Rovers
  • mergers and manoeuvres - Alvis, Triumph and Leyland
  • British Leyland and SD1 - the end of the beginning?
  • nationalization and expansion - a bright future?
  • Rover in the 1980s
  • full circle - the birth of the Rover Group
  • blind alleys and oddballs - the Rovers that got away
  • Rover since the start, who has run the company?
  • the important milestones - who, what, when and where?
  • one-make clubs for Rover enthusiasts
  • the Rover pedigree.

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