Rover Pilot Rover 12
spencer wilks given free hand make improvements time began work @ rover. intending cater market fashionable multi-cylindered engines, big cars might have 16-cylinders, wilks asked hillman engine designer b h thomas design new small 6-cylinder engine fit between rover s wild designed 10/25 4-cylinder , poppe s 2 or 2½-litre 6-cylinder. thomas s design 10/25 engine 2 more cylinders though dimensions differed make fit within desired tax rating. form basis rover s other engines 1930s. in original version new engine described nice quite gutless . @ first squeezed onto old scarcely altered rover 8, 9/20, 10/25 chassis.
rover s new car announced 21 august 1931 described in advertisements as: 12-horsepower six-cylinder having four-speed gearbox silent third gear, capable of 65 70 mph , 28 30 miles per gallon de luxe model included safety glass in windows.
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