{"product_id":"rover-jon-pressnell-9781956309249","title":"Rover: Design and Engineering: The Inside Story 1945-1976","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first in-depth account of the car manufacturing company Rover's postwar design and engineering journey, from independent auto maker to technological pioneer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lost in the collapse of the automotive conglomerate British Leyland, it is easy to forget that Rover was once a proudly independent maker of high-quality vehicles. The company managed to be both orthodox 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on a treasure trove of detailed interviews from the late 1990s and backed up by recent interviews, this is the first book to tell the true inside story of post-war Rover design and engineering. Full of fascinating firsthand testimony, it shows how a relatively small and essentially family-run concern could lift itself up to be a technological leader. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Pressnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1956309241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956309249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalton Watson Fine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Jon Pressnell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47474536218879,"sku":"9781956309249","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a880f63c-b89d-47d6-abe6-0769c224a4fc.jpg?v=1762317365","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rover-jon-pressnell-9781956309249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}