Rover Car Books - History and Models

Rover Cars 1945 to 2005 - A Pictorial History

This comprehensive pictorial overview of Rover cars and car-derived vans covers the 60 years from 1945 to 2005. It describes and illustrates all of the great classic Rovers up to and including the SD1, and goes on to look at the models inherited from British Leyland that attracted Rover badges.
It finishes with the models designed in conjunction with Honda; the later British-designed cars - and even the final City Rover.

There is also consideration of some Rover models that were designed but, for various reasons, did not enter production, and can now only be seen as prototypes in museums.
A title in Veloce's popular Pictorial History series, this book describes all of the postwar models with illustrations and technical data for each.

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British Leyland - The Cars, 1968-1986

In 1968, British Leyland brought together most of Britain's motor manufacturers, with the intention of creating a robust unified group that could equal the strength of the big European conglomerates. But this was not to be.

There have been many books about the politics and the business activities of British Leyland, but "British Leyland - The Cars, 1968 - 1986" looks deliberately at the cars that came from the company, both the models it inherited and it created.

The eighteen years of the corporation's existence saw a confusing multitude of different car types, but this book resolves these confusions, clarifying who built what, and when.
The book takes 1986 as its cut-off point because this was the year that the old British Leyland ceased to exist and what was left of the car and light commercial business was renamed the Rover Group.

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Making Cars at Longbridge : 1906 to the Present Day

Lavishly illustrated with unique images from the official company archive, this book charts more than 100 years of car-making at the Longbridge factory, near Birmingham. Herbert Austin founded the Austin Motor Company here in April 1905 and it was subsequently home to the British Motor Corporation, British Leyland, Rover Group and, latterly, MG Rover. Its products include some of the most famous British models ever produced, such as the pioneering Austin Seven, the innovative trend-setting Mini, the popular Austin Metro and, in later years, the best-selling MG TF and elegant Rover 75.

The factory was a major employer and an integral part of the local community from its beginnings until the sad events of April 2005, when MG Rover went into administration. This radically changed the landscape, spearheading the long-term regeneration of the area. The community is looking to the future with confidence, never forgetting its long and proud tradition of manufacturing.

This fully updated version honours the 110th anniversary of the first motor production at Longbridge as well as the 150th birthday of Herbert Austin. It includes a new colour section showing various stages in the life of a car, from the design studio to the showroom.

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Rover, l'élégance britannique

For over a hundred years (1904-2005), Rover was synonymous with elegance and class in the automotive world. From its first motor vehicles built in 1904 until its disappearance in 2005, the brand brilliantly embodied the British automobile industry, with its status saloons, spanning all eras of the 20th century, through two wars and the serious crisis of the 1970s of the British Leyland group.

In the 1980s, it gradually established itself as a high-end generalist brand, with its 100 200 400 600 and 800 series, before being taken over by BMW and then disappearing, swept away by the bankruptcy of the MG Rover group in 2005.

This book offers to return, year by year, to the exciting adventure of the brand with the longship: the analysis of the economic activity of the company, the description of the strategy of the brand, those of the different owners who succeeded one another, the presentation of the models, their evolution and technical characteristics.
All placed in the economic and geopolitical context of the time and illustrated with more than 500 documents and archives.

Summary:
- Birth of the first Rover
- Rover chronology from 1904 to 2005 (date of the bankruptcy of the MG Rover group)
- Appendices: production and registration figures in Great Britain and France.

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