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SamBlob [2015-03-16 00:12:38 +0000 UTC]
I can absolutely assure you that this car was never sold as a Rover; not honestly, anyway.
This one appears to be either a Wolseley, a Vanden Plas, or a Princess; most likely a Wolseley.
The design is from BMC or BMH, before they merged with Leyland to form British Leyland.
The first Rover built was the single-cylinder Rover 8 from about 1904 or so.
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BrightStar2 In reply to SamBlob [2015-03-16 06:36:09 +0000 UTC]
Hello, it was so long ago I can't reiterate where I got that from
but it was from a well known souce there I am sure, but looking it up
Its seems I do have my information wrong.....would it be fare to say first Morris 1100 car to
be produced at Cowley?....
this link takes you through the first cars
www.austinmemories.com/page25/…
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SamBlob In reply to BrightStar2 [2015-03-16 20:15:45 +0000 UTC]
This is actually not a Wolseley but a Vanden Plas Princess.
This could be the firs Vanden Plas Proncess out of Cowley or the last ADO16 out of Cowley. Or it could be neither.
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SamBlob In reply to BrightStar2 [2015-03-21 09:59:06 +0000 UTC]
The Cowley factory began production in the Teens or the Twenties, so I'm not sure how much "older" a Sixties car would be. Morris would have made the original Minors there in the late Twenties and early Thirties and the postwar Minors from the late Forties to about 1971.
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LadySasha01 [2011-08-24 01:13:37 +0000 UTC]
Still in very good condition. Great shot!
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BrightStar2 In reply to LadySasha01 [2011-08-24 01:25:24 +0000 UTC]
this was the first ever rover we had,
so it was pretty new in comparrison....lol
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wingsofdragons [2011-08-24 00:36:27 +0000 UTC]
wow ........you really had a cool ride...........My dad was a taxi driver
and he owned his own Checker ................loved the jump seats...........
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