The Rover 6 was the second car model made by the British Rover car company. It was sold from 1906 until 1912. Image File history File links Rover_Six_1910. ... Automakers or automobile manufacturers are companies that design and manufacture automobiles. ... Rover was a British automobile manufacturer and later a marque based at the Longbridge plant in Birmingham. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Internal combustion engine. ... Epicyclic gearing or planetary gearing as used in an automatic transmission. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Automotive design. ... Rover was a British automobile manufacturer and later a marque based at the Longbridge plant in Birmingham. ...
The first car made by Rover, the Rover 8, which was sold alongside the 6, had been of unorthodox construction with its backbone chassis. For the new smaller car it was a return to convention with a steel reinforced wooden chassis with half elliptic leaf springs front and rear supporting the car on rigid axles.
The engine was a 780 cc side valve, single cylinder unit, water cooled, with a bore of 95 mm and stroke of 110 mm. The capacity increased to 812 cc in 1908 when the bore was increased to 97 mm to bring it into line with the new range of four cylinder cars. Drive was to the rear wheels through a three speed gearbox and jointed drive shaft. The cam-in-block valvetrain layouts are ones in which the camshaft is placed within the cylinder block, usually beside and slightly above the crankshaft in a straight engine or directly above the crankshaft in the V of a V engine. ...
In 1910 a complete Rover 6 with two seater body and weather protection cost GBP155 but an earlier model had been sold as a "hundred guinea car" (GBP105).
References
^ abc Culshaw; Horrobin (1974). Complete Catalogue of British Cars. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-16689-2.
The Rover Story. Graham Robson. 1977. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-175-2
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