Rover P4Available again! The definitive history of the dignified Rover P4 from 1949 until 1964, which includes Marauder and jet-powered, experimental cars. Affectionately known as the ‘auntie’ Rovers, these models have become much-loved classics and represent the epitome of Britishness. |
Contents
Gasturbine the potential power | 74 |
The Jabbeke Trials | 84 |
T3 a new direction | 91 |
T4 almost there | 97 |
MARAUDERS COUPÉS | 105 |
COLOUR GALLERY 113 Chapter V LIVING WITH A P4 138 Owning buying a P4 | 140 |
Original specifications | 166 |
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2-litre 6-cylinder appearance Author’s collection Autocar Bill Henderson bonnet boot brakes brochure built car’s carburettor changes chassis COLOUR GALLERY column gearchange company’s complete Courtesy BMIHT/Rover Group courtesy Rover P4 Cyclops David Bache drive early eventually factory feature fitted fixed head coupé Frank Bell free-wheel front wing frontal fuel consumption further gas-turbine car gas-turbine engine gearbox George Mackie Gordon Bashford handbrake headlamps inlet over exhaust Jabbeke Land Rover Light Grey litres London Motor Show Marauder Matt White Maurice Wilks mechanical modifications National Motor Museum overdrive owners P4 Drivers Guild panel performance Peter Wilks Photo production prototype car radiator grille rear axle Road Rover Rolls-Royce Rover 75 Rover company Rover engineers Rover P4 Drivers rubber Sage Green saloon seat Solihull spare wheel speed Spen King Spencer Wilks Stan Johnstone Starley Studebaker styling Tickford trim turbine car Tyres unit vehicle Whittle’s Wilks brothers windscreen