CARS OF THE ROOTES GROUP
Written by Graham Robson
Published by Motor Racing Publications Ltd.
in 1990
ISBN: 0947981357
CARS OF THE ROOTES GROUP
Written by Graham Robson.
Stock no. 2124115
1st.
1990.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
From the early 1930s until the mid-1970s, the Rootes Group was one of Britain's foremost car manufacturers with models under the Hillman, Humber, Singer, Sunbeam and Sunbeam Talbot badges. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 192 pages. ISBN: 0947981357. A very nice copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter 1 Rootes: A powerful motoring family
- Chapter 2 Rootes Group - the early years: Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam and Talbot before the Second World War
- Chapter 3 The Empire at its peak: 1945 to 1964
- Chapter 4 Hillman
- Chapter 5 Humber
- Chapter 6 Singer
- Chapter 7 Sunbeam
- Chapter 8 Sunbeam-Talbot
- Chapter 9 Chrysler and Peugeot: Rootes' successors and the cars they inherited
- Appendix A Building the bodies: Pressed Steel, Thrupp & Maberly, Darracq, British Light Steel Pressings and other sources
- Appendix B Combined operations: The Armstrong Siddeley and Jensen connections
- Appendix C Rootes model families: A summary of their production life
- Appendix D Engine availability: Before, during and after the Rootes years
- Appendix E Rootes production figures: The numbers tell the story
- Appendix F Profits and losses: The financial story of the postwar years