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Published: 2011-08-23 21:12:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 456; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 10
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First Ever Rover built - I remember my parents had one...oh boy was we cool....
MG & Rover plant (which is now BMW Owned)
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* 1952, Morris Motors became part of the British Motor Corporation (BMC)
* 1968 BMC became British Leyland
* 1980s the group was known as Austin Rover
* 1990s it was Rover Group
BMW agreed the redeveloped the entire Cowley plant site with Goodman Group, demolishing much of the factory, to create a new factory. Which is now home to the new Mini Cooper the new MINI was launched in Mid 2001.
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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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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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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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lol....I think to be on the safe side....i will just say,...
one of the older cars made at cowley
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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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this was the first ever rover we had,
so it was pretty new in comparrison....lol
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oh i forgot to up load the police ones......YES THEY DID
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Love to see the Police ones one day!
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I've put them up now but they was't rover,
but from the company that took them over way back when
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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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we were always traveling to devon and wales in it, and a Mini clubman
oh my you should of seen that...unbelievable :hehe:
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sounds like one stylish ride.......we went all over in the
checker....it was a huge yellow taxi .......
and everyone would look at it and want a ride in a 'real'
New York Taxi..............
had the meter in it........!! we rode for free
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Sounds so cool.....I thought NY had all real Yellow taxi's
sweet memory huh!.....
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they don't make the checkers anymore......only the small ones
or suv's..........!!
thanks ............
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Thata a shame, hope you got some photos
from ya dad
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I don't remember seeing any........that's a shame....
but I have the memories.......
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yes sometimes thats all you need.......
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Yes.........it is........big yellow taxi.........!! dreams...........
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