22 Facts About Rover Company

Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company that operated from its base in Solihull in Warwickshire.

Rover Company was sold to Leyland Motors in 1967, who had already acquired Standard-Triumph seven years earlier.

Land Rover Company vehicles were developed in 1948 and added to the Rover Company range.

Rover Company was founded by John Kemp Starley and William Sutton in 1878.

Cycling Magazine said the Rover Company had "set the pattern to the world"; the phrase was used in their advertising for many years.

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Starley's Rover Company is usually described by historians as the first recognisably modern bicycle.

The following year Rover Company stopped motorcycle production to concentrate on their 'safety bicycle' but in 1910 designer John Greenwood was commissioned to develop a new 3.

Lawson's subsequent takeover, the Rover company began producing automobiles with the two-seater Rover Eight to the designs of Edmund Lewis, who came from Lawson's Daimler.

Rover Company was eventually replaced by Owen Clegg, who joined from Wolseley in 1910 and set about reforming the product range.

In early 1940, Rover was approached by Frank Whittle to do work for Whittle's company, Power Jets.

Rover Company contacted the Air Ministry regarding the proposal, which ultimately led to an arrangement between Rover Company and former Power Jets contractor British Thomson-Houston to develop and produce Whittle's jet engine.

In exchange for the jet engine project and its facilities, Rover Company was given the contract and production equipment to make Meteor tank engines, which continued until 1964.

The Meteor engine was superseded for new tanks in 1962, and as Rover Company wanted more manufacturing capacity for the Land Rover Company they transferred the manufacture of Meteor spare parts for the British and other governments back to Rolls-Royce at Shrewsbury.

In 1945, Rover Company hired engineers Frank Bell and Spen King away from Rolls-Royce to assist Maurice Wilks in the development of automotive gas turbines.

In March 1950, Rover Company showed the JET1 prototype, the first car powered with a gas turbine engine, to the public.

Rover Company ran several experimental diesel engine projects in relation to the Land Rover Company.

Rover Company developed a highly advanced turbodiesel version of its engine in the mid-1960s to power its experimental '129-inch' heavy duty Land Rover Company designs.

The Land Rover became a runaway success, as well as the P5 and P6 saloons equipped with a 3.

Rover Company was working on the P8 project which aimed to replace the existing P5 large saloon with a modern design similar in concept to a scaled-up P6.

The P8 in particular was cancelled in a very late stage of preparation- Rover Company had already ordered the dies and stamping equipment for making the car's body panels at Pressed Steel when ordered to stop work.

The Range Rover Company was initially designed as a utility vehicle which could offer the off-road capability of the Land Rover Company, but in a more refined and car-like package.

In 1967, Rover Company became part of the Leyland Motor Corporation, which already owned Triumph.