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Marauder Cars
Marauder Car Company Limited was a British car venture by ex-Rover Company, Rover engineers George Mackie and Peter Wilks. After successfully racing their single-seater Marauder racing car the pair left Rover in 1950 and formed Wilks, Mackie and Company to exploit their idea of a two-seater sports car based on the new Rover P4, Rover 75 chassis. In 1951 they changed the company's name to Marauder Car Company. Around 15 cars were made before a sharp luxury tax imposed on cars priced over £1,000 brought sales to an end and George Mackie and Peter Wilks rejoined Rover. Design The design was largely the work of Peter Wilks and Charles Spencer King, "Spen" King who, like Wilks, was a nephew of brothers Spencer and Maurice Wilks who ran Rover Company, Rover. Spencer King was later famous for his involvement in many Rover and British Leyland Motor Corporation, Leyland Group designs. Though usually considered a sports car their new car was marketed as a Marauder Tourer. The car nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rover Marauder 1951
Rover may refer to: People * Constance Rover (1910–2005), English historian * Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), Dutch swimmer * Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist Places * Rover, Arkansas, US * Rover, Missouri, US * Rover, West Virginia, US * Røver Anchorage, Bouvet Island, Norway * Rover Creek, British Columbia, Canada Arts and entertainment Literature * ''Rover'', the US title of ''They Came on Viking Ships'', a children's novel by Jackie French * The Rover (story paper), ''The Rover'' (story paper), a British boys' story paper which started in 1922 Music * Rover (BlocBoy JB song), "Rover" (BlocBoy JB song), 2018 **"Rover 2.0", a 2018 remake by BlocBoy JB featuring 21 Savage from the mixtape ''Simi (mixtape), Simi'' * Rover (S1mba song), "Rover" (S1mba song), 2020 viral hit by S1mba featuring DTG * Rover (UCLA song), "Rover" (UCLA song), a sports cheer at the University of California Los Angeles * The Rover (Led Zeppelin song), "The Rover" (Led Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorridge
Dorridge is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands (county), England. Historically part of the historic counties of England, historic county of Warwickshire, the village is encompassed within the electoral ward of Dorridge and Hockley Heath, which had a population of 11,140 in the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census. Location Dorridge is to the east of the M40 motorway, M40 and the south of the M42 motorway, M42 which, along with a small but important Green belt (United Kingdom), green belt area, separates Dorridge and its neighbours of Knowle, West Midlands, Knowle and Bentley Heath from the greater urban area of Birmingham, with the town of Solihull encompassing the green-belt area. It is situated at the southwestern extreme of the Meriden Gap and until 1974 was part of Warwickshire. Indeed, there are no major towns between Dorridge and Warwick. It is 125 metres (400 ft) above sea-level, located in the Midlands Plateau. Both Knowle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
