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THE ROVER STORY: A CENTURY OF SUCCESS

by Graham Robson

Published by Patrick Stephens Limited. 1st. 1977

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The prototypes that might have been, the strange turbine cars never before seen in public, the men who directed Rover's fortunes, the traumas of multi-million pound decisions and above all the company's impressive record of car production. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 176 pages including index.

Front endpaper is creased. Light browning to text block. Dustwrapper is edge-creased and browned, light fading to spine, scuffed to rear panel.

ISBN: 0850592798
Stock no. 2136800

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Contents

Chapter 1 From a humble bicycle...
Chapter 2 Birth, growth, crisis
Chapter 3 Wilks brothers to the rescue
Chapter 4 Underground, overground - Rover's war machines
Chapter 5 One of Britain's fine cars - the 'Auntie' era
Chapter 6 World Pioneers - the gas and turbine cars
Chapter 7 A Rover for the farmer
Chapter 8 The young generation takes over
Chpater 9 Carving a new image - racing and rallying
Chapter 10 Modern times - vee-8s and Range Rovers
Chapter 11 Mergers and manoeuvres - Alvis, Triumph and Leyland
Chapter 12 British Leyland and SD1 - the end of the beginning?
Chapter 13 Ryder and rationalisation - the future?
Appendix 1 Blind alleys and oddballs - the Rovers that got away
Appendix 2 Rover since the start. Who has run the company?
Appendix 3 The important milestones - who, what, when and where?
Appendix 4 The Rover Owners' Association
Appendix 5 The Rover pedigree

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