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knotty · Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 3

Hello All,

Looking for some advice. Have a vintage car, on V5 classed as Rover.

Car dates from 1921.

Can anyone help to identify.. various suggstions going around.

Hope someone can help!

Thank You

Phil - Nottingham · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham

It does look like a 1920's Rover grille
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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

Looks like a Rover 9 to me.

Can you let us know the engine size and do you have a side view?

Here is a picture of a 9 Tourer
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knotty · Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 3

Hello there

Engine size is 1701cc , Petrol

Going to get the digital camera cranked up at the weekend!

47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

Does it look anything like this

This is a 1921 Rover 8

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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

This is two Rover 9 Tourers

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22795 Location: UK

Definitely some similarities to the Rover 9, although the Knotty's car looks like it has the headlamps mounted on the side of the rad, rather than on the wings or on a cross bracket. The rad looks squatter too. Perhaps a special body built using a Rover chassis as a base??

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

Another shot...

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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

Ah yes Peter, Marie Peock's lovely little Rover 8
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Castellated nut · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 91 Location: Shropshire, UK

It looks like the Clegg designed Rover 12, but that had a 2300cc engine in 1921. There doesn't seem to have been any Rover engine close to 1701cc. Could it have been fitted with a non-Rover engine?

Castellated nut · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 91 Location: Shropshire, UK

Found some pictures of a 1921 12 h.p. taken in the '80s. Possibly knotty's car looks a bit smaller.

47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

I'm still hedging my bets on a Rover 9

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Castellated nut · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 91 Location: Shropshire, UK

Alongside your picture of the blue 2-seater it certainly does look very similar, 47p2. The size of the steering wheel relative to the rest of the car, looks a good match, though the shape of the radiator looks more like the 12, and knotty's car looks as though it may have artillery wheels. These could all have been things that changed with different year's models, though.

The engine size is still an anomaly. I'm certain there was never a Rover engine close to 1701cc. The 9 did not exist in 1921, and started life (in 1924) with a 1074cc engine.

buzzy bee · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire

47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

I can't remember where I saw it, but if I find out I will let you know
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