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Early Photo and Documents For My Car
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jonpe



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:24 pm    Post subject: Early Photo and Documents For My Car Reply with quote

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.
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47p2



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a great bit of history and a fantastic find
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's fabulous!

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for posting them! Smile

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here she is today,


Last picture taken new years day 09 in temperatures of-3 at much marcle
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes it's a 9/20.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

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Scotty



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lovely car - does you credit! Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow never thought to look that up on google, thanks for all your comments.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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