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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7117 Location: Edinburgh
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roverdriver
Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 1210 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Thanks Peter. Yes I am aware of the three part story covering early history, then production of the P5, as well as the film on the P6. There is also a film about the Rover Imperial motorcycle which includes a rather interesting use of a hammer as a delicate engineering tool!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m8PmMQK76s
It is interesting that Rover produced quite a range of vehicles over the years. In fact in about 1923 the company had a greater range of wheeled vehicles available than any other U.K. business- many different types of bicycle, similarly several different motorcycles and a few different cars. Two wheels finished at about that time but the company made both low, medium and high priced cars. When the Wilks family involvement commenced as the 1929 onward depression bit, they swung to only producing high quality. They were very well engineered cars.
The company history is quite fascinating, as James Starley had more than a couple of workers who moved from sewing machines, to bicycles then to motorcycles and cars. Names such as Hillman, Singer and Arial trace their origins to him, as well as his nephew's (John Kemp Starley) own separate company that developed the safety bicycle and then headed to motorcycles and cars. _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking. |
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