Nut holding the steering wheel on a Rover P6.

Police P6B S. Nice! Non power steer ?
I presume these early steering wheels were also used on the series 2 cars.


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Hi, It was common policy for police vehicles not to have luxury optional equipment like power steering.

Back in the 70s a friend was a traffic sergeant and they had an unmarked 3 litre Capri which was supplied with power steering and the division were refusing to pay for it, Ford saying they ticked the relevant box seemingly erroneously. A bit of back and forth and it was quietly dropped with no payment.

Colin
 
ghce said:
Police P6B S. Nice! Non power steer ?
I presume these early steering wheels were also used on the series 2 cars.


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Yes, these wheels were standard fitment on all models from 63-77. All the other steering wheels were optional extras, except on 3500S models (both NADA and 'manual' S models), which got the PAS-style wheel (15.75 inch, two-spoke with round centre cap) as standard. Otherwise you only got that wheel if you had PAS fitted. There was also the 'wood effect' wheel, which looks similar to the PAS wheel, but was the same size as the standard wheel (17 inch). I think the wood-effect wheel may have been standard fitment for some export markets (99% sure standard on Federal TCs) but otherwise were vanishingly rare over here.
 
NADA TCs (i.e. <1968) cars got the wood grain wheel & the walnut shift knob. So did the Federal TCs AFAIK, though I have seen a LHD Series 2 TC with wooden wheel and the black plastic shift knob. We got very, very few official series 2 cars. In fact, I think there now are more imported series 2 cars in North America than official ones.

Yours
Vern
 
the only non power steer P6B's I have seen here in NZ were private imports from the UK, seems like most NZ cars built here were power steer standard.
 
Vern Klukas said:
We got very, very few official series 2 cars. In fact, I think there now are more imported series 2 cars in North America than official ones.

Yours
Vern
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I believe just 222, although that may just be the total of series 2 TC models. James Taylor's book isn't clear on that point (and I've yet to pick up a copy of the revised edition, which may clarify things).
 
The wood grain wheels I have are both the same size as the PS wheels, with the same spoke arrangement but polished steel with the centre cap surround in polished aluminium instead of black. The Rim of the PS wheel is different, being rubber around a steel ring encased in a leather sleeve where the wood effect one is hard plastic. Maybe they made a PS wood grain wheel for PS cars?
 
If you break it off the plastic wood you’ll see the same steel ring. I’ve never seen a wood wheel the same size as the PS wheels, but it’s certainly possible as we never got any PS cars except the NADA 3500s, which got the leather wrapped wheels. Later NADA cars came with the black surround wheel badge, everything up to 1968 had the aluminum surround wheel badge.

Yours
Vern
 
ghce said:
Police P6B S. Nice! Non power steer ?
I presume these early steering wheels were also used on the series 2 cars.


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My 1974 3500S has the same steering wheel. Brit-assembled, like all NZ 3500Ss. I doubt very much that mine was not OEM.
 
PJay said:
My 1974 3500S has the same steering wheel. Brit-assembled, like all NZ 3500Ss. I doubt very much that mine was not OEM.
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I think most of the 3500s cars were imported to NZ fully built up as they are a special order and I guess because of that you would have to specify power steer or not power steer as they would come from UK market stock.
OTOH NZ assembled cars seem to all have had power steer ( 3500 Auto models) and it would be a special order to have non power steer, probably they would import one from the UK same as the 3500S models.

Graeme
 
Yes, I am certain that all the NZ 3500Ss were imported CBU. A friend of mine was in charge of the Nelson plant at the time and confirmed it to me some years ago,
 
PJay said:
Yes, I am certain that all the NZ 3500Ss were imported CBU. A friend of mine was in charge of the Nelson plant at the time and confirmed it to me some years ago,
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Yes, they were complete built units from the UK.
I also had a friend who worked on the Rover line in Nelson in the paint shop which was quite useful as many NZ cars were painted with other colours not available as standard in the UK such as triumph etc colours, my own car is in Pimento which is not in the standard UK Rover charts for the P6 but was applied at assembly in NZ.
 
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