Rootes Arrow was the manufacturer's name for a range of cars produced under several badge-engineered marques by the Rootes Group from 1966 to 1979 in Europe, and continuing on until 2005 in Iran. It is amongst the last Rootes designs, developed with no influence from future owner Chrysler. The range is almost always referred to by the name of the most prolific model, the Hillman Hunter.
1967 Hillman Hunter Saloon
1970 Hillman Minx
1968 Hillman Minx Estate
1969 Hillman GT
The Rootes Group or Rootes Motors Limited was a British automobile manufacturer and, separately, a major motor distributors and dealers business. Run from London's West End, the manufacturer was based in the Midlands and the distribution and dealers business in the south of England. In the decade beginning 1928 the Rootes brothers, William and Reginald, made prosperous by their very successful distribution and servicing business, were keen to enter manufacturing for closer control of the products they were selling. One brother has been termed the power unit, the other the steering and braking system.
The Rootes Maidstone on Mill Street, Rootes' factory building c. 1948
William Rootes, founder
A Bristol Blenheim bomber
Hillman Minx Series IIIC. The "Audax" Minx (Series I to VI) was designed by Raymond Loewy.