The Rootes Story: The Making of a Global Automotive Empire - Hardcover

Carverhill, Geoff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785004794 ISBN 13: 9781785004797

Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The Rootes Story - The Making of a Global Automotive Empire traces the meteoric rise of the two Rootes brothers, William and Reginald, development of one of Britain's most important motor vehicle manufacturers. The Rootes Group acquired some of the most famous names in the British motor industry: Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam and Singer cars, as well as Commer and Karrier commercial vehicles. Over the years, some of the models built by Rootes would become household names: the Hillman Minx, Humber Super Snipe, Sunbeam Alpine, Singer Gazelle, Commer Superpoise and Karrier Bantam. In its heyday in the late 1950s, Rootes was the fourth largest manufacturer of cars and trucks in Britain, exporting to over 180 countries worldwide, becoming a global automotive empire. In this book, the people and various companies involved with Rootes are profiled, as are the cars and commercial vehicles built by them, with specifications of principal models. Personal insight from employees is given along with valuable contributions from the Rootes family themselves.

About this title

About the Author:

Geoff Carverhill is an automotive journalist and historian, the author of many magazine articles on both well-known and obscure classic cars. As a specialist in American automotive history, he is a regular contributor to Classic American magazine. He is also a piano tuner and technician, a freelance photographer and music reviewer. This is his second book, the first being The Commer Story, also published by Crowood.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785004794
• ISBN 13: 9781785004797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240