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jonpe · Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

I have been looking through the documents etc of my Rover and thought I would share some with you.
The picture was taken in 1930 and is of the 2nd owner Oswin R Bell with his Mother Elizabeth. He purchased the car after seeing the add pictured and recieved the reciept you see here from the first owner.

Hope to enjoy.

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

What a great bit of history and a fantastic find
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7212 Location: Edinburgh

That's fabulous!

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

Thanks for posting them! Smile

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jonpe · Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

Here she is today,

Last picture taken new years day 09 in temperatures of-3 at much marcle

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

What a belter! I've a cyl head for a Rover 9/20 about here somewhere, is it the same?

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jonpe · Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

Yes it's a 9/20.

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

I've a photo of it somewhere. There's an outside chance I might find a block to go with it, I'm returning to where I bought the head from this weekend coming up. I'll see if the block is still around.

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This is the head I found, another forum member identified it as 9/20. Not the prettiest but might be retrievable..

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jonpe · Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

That looks just like the spare one I have in my garage.

arossco · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 35 Location: Glasgow

Here is a picture of your car's original home - 42 Leicester Avenue Strathfield NSW - courtesy of Google Maps Smile

I wonder if that's the actual garage she was kept in ?

Ross

Scotty · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 883

Lovely car - does you credit! Wink

jonpe · Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

Wow never thought to look that up on google, thanks for all your comments.

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

Here is a link to my website and if you scroll to the bottom of the page you will see another 2 Rover 9s that are in Australia
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jonpe · Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

There seems to be more 2 seater 9/20's left than 4 seater cars and I would be interested to know out of the 13,000 9/20's produced what the split of 2 and 4 seater cars were. I know this would be near impossible to do because of the amount of coach built bodies made for the models exported to Australia etc.