Rover: Design and Engineering
The Inside Story 1945-1976
Jon Pressnell
Rover: Design and Engineering; The Inside Story 1945-1976 by Jon Pressnell
 
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Rover: Design and Engineering
The Inside Story 1945-1976
by Jon Pressnell

Submerged and ultimately drowned in the British Leyland shipwreck, it is easy to forget that Rover was once a proudly independent maker of high-quality vehicles. The company managed to be both conservative and innovative, respecting traditions but prepared to push boundaries, not least in its pioneering and successful work with gas-turbine cars. Some of its models remain design landmarks; others showed huge promise but never made it to production, snuffed out by British Leyland’s dog-eat-dog internal politics.

The thread running through all these cars is a sparkling creativity: a willingness, born out of painstaking research and experimentation, to do things differently if that meant doing them better. Based on a treasure trove of detailed interviews from the late 1990s and backed up with further recent interviews, this is the first book to tell the true inside story of post-war Rover design and engineering – the challenges, the victories, the defeats. Full of fascinating first-hand testimony, it shows how a relatively small and essentially family-run concern could hoist itself up to be a technological leader.

Lavishly illustrated with many images of design studies, styling proposals and prototypes, the book additionally features a series of pull-out artwork studies of key vehicles by design authority and author Nick Hull.

  • Hard cover with dust jacket
  • 290mm x 254mm (landscape format)
  • ISBN: 978-1-956309-24-9
Author Biography

Jon Pressnell

Jon Pressnell is a journalist and auto-motive historian. Best known for his contributions to Classic & Sports Car magazine, for which he has written since the 1980s, he has a reputation as a rigorous and original researcher. Amongst his books are histories of the Mini, the Citroën Traction Avant and DS, and the Austin-Healey. His groundbreaking Morris – The Cars and the Company won the 2014 Michael Sedgwick Award presented by the Society of Automotive Historians in Britain. More recently he has authored The Lamborghini Miura for Kidston SA of Geneva and Marcel Pourtout – Carrossier and Kim: A Biography of M.G. Founder Cecil Kimber for Dalton Watson Fine Books, both these titles winning major awards. Jon Pressnell lives in south-west France and works additionally as a book editor and editorial consultant.


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