Rover

Rover was a British car manufacturer that operated independently from 1878 until 1967, with its main base of operations in Solihull, Warwickshire. The company was founded by John Kemp Starley and William Sutton, and it began as a manufacturer of bicycles before moving into motorcycles and, from 1904, motor cars, using a Viking longship as its badge. Starley, who had worked with his uncle James Starley in the cycle trade,…