It was then temporarily displayed as a major attraction at the Rover Group's museum.

After MG Rover Group's financial crisis and talks of acquisition or investment by Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation ( SAIC ) failed in early 2005, the MG Rover Group went into receivership.

Ford purchased the Rover name from the Rover Group's previous owner BMW to protect the Land Rover brand from Shanghai Automotive who wanted the Rover name for their 75-based car ( Ford was at this time owner of Land Rover — and Jaguar ).

Sales fell lower still afterwards, as the latest Rover 200 was firmly established as the Rover Group's best seller in this sector, and the Maestro remained on sale as a cheaper alternative until the last ones left the showrooms in the mid 1990s.

To some extent a competitor to smaller-engined models of the Austin Rover Group's own Rover SD1, sales were low and the model was discontinued in 1984.

Starley's 1885 Rover, manufactured in Coventry, England, is usually described as the first recognizably modern bicycle.

* 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U. S. Navy hospital ship.

* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

The first Land Rover prototype, later nicknamed ' Centre Steer ', was built on a Jeep chassis and axles.

During its ownership by Ford, Land Rover was once again associated with Jaguar-the first time the two companies had been under the same umbrella since the British Leyland era.

* 1948: The first Land Rover was officially launched 30 April 1948, at the Amsterdam Motor Show

During the first half of the 20th century, the movement grew to encompass three major age groups each for boys ( Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Rover Scout ) and, in 1910, a new organization, Girl Guides, was created for girls ( Brownie Guide, Girl Guide and Girl Scout, Ranger Guide ).

The first Cub Scout and Rover Scout programs were in place by the late 1910s.

In 1563 he became the first mate of the frigate HMS " Falcon Rover ".

* John Kemp Starley demonstrates the Rover safety bicycle, regarded as the first practical modern bicycle.

The earliest examples of longer-wheelbase wagon-type SUVs were the Chevrolet Carryall Suburban ( 1935, RWD only ), GAZ-61 ( 1938, 4x4 ), Willys Jeep Wagon ( 1948 ), Pobeda M-72 ( GAZ-M20 / 1955 ), which Russian references credit as possibly being the first modern SUV ( with unitary body rather than body-on-frame ), International Harvester Travelall ( 1953 ), Land Rover Series II 109 ( 1958 ), and the International Harvester Scout 80 ( 1961 ).

The first series that Stratemeyer created was the Rover Boys, published under the pseudonym Arthur M. Winfield.

The objective of the consortium, which includes luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover and leading electrical machine company SR Drives, is to produce the world ’ s first commercially viable-and environmentally friendly-gas turbine generator designed specifically for automotive applications.

Bell and Chief Engineer Maurice Wilks from British car manufacturers Rover unveiled the first car powered with a gas turbine engine.

The first race car fitted with a turbine for the goal of actual racing was by Rover and the BRM Formula One team joined forces to produce the Rover-BRM, a gas turbine powered coupe, which entered the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven by Graham Hill and Richie Ginther.

Their expertise in 4WD attracted Mercedes-Benz and they built the first G Wagens ( Geländewagen ) that were intended as an alternative to the military specification Land Rover.

The Niva ( 2121 ) was described by its designers as a “ Renault 5 put on a Land Rover chassis .” It was Lada's ( VAZ / AvtoVAZ ) first non-Fiat based model.

It was the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission, and held the record for the longest Mars surface mission of 6 years and 116 days ( from landing until surface mission termination, Earth time ) until that record was broken by the Opportunity Rover on May 19, 2010.

the Jaguar XK120 achieved an officially timed ; the " Jabbeke Speed Record " Triumph TR2 car was driven by Ken Richardson ; André Pilette set a Belgian record in the 2 litre class in the Veritas RS ; in 1952 the Rover JET 1 turbine driven by Spen King set the first speed record for gas turbine cars at over the flying kilometre ; and the exotic Pegaso Z-102 clocked to make it the ' fastest production car in the world '.

This period saw the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn, author of many comedies including The Rover ( 1677 ).

The designation was first applied to a low-roof model of the Rover P5 from 1962 until 1973, but was revived by the 1992 Infiniti J30 and finally by the first model 2005 Mercedes-Benz CLS, which stands in Mercedes hierarchy between the E and S class, and has appearance of a classic coupe and sedan.

* The opening piano piece in the first movement is featured in a 2008 Range Rover commercial.

Although Mercury was not the first nameplate to introduce a SUV ( following the Range Rover and the Oldsmobile Bravada ), the 1997 Mercury Mountaineer was among one of the first to popularize luxury SUVs.

The 1989 Rover 200 was a strong seller throughout its life and its successor continued this trend, though its final year of production ( 1999 ) saw a significant dip in sales.

This change was achieved without significant change to the remaining structure, but provided a more distinctive Rover " family look " and establish a certain distance from the Honda Concerto.

Recurring themes include the appearance of Bruce on the studio webcam, Lynn Bowles ' involvement with Land Rover and the information included on this Wikipedia profile, with contributors highlighting alterations that have been made ; on occasions according to this page, he has become a Knight of the Realm, had a significant number of children, is of limited stature, received an inflated salary and loves caravanning.

* 1975: BL collapses and is nationalised, publication of the Ryder Report recommends that Land Rover be split from Rover and be treated as a separate company within BL and becomes part of the new commercial vehicle division called the Land Rover Leyland Group

Evidence of this area beginning to grow once again can be found in the fact that a new Jaguar-Land Rover factory is set to be built near Wolverhampton.

On 22 July 2005, the Nanjing Automobile Group purchased the rights to the MG brand and the assets of the MG Rover Group for £ 53 million creating a new company NAC MG UK Limited.

Following the May 2000 purchase of the MG and Rover brands by the Phoenix Consortium and the forming of the new MG Rover Group, the MG range was expanded in the summer of 2001 with the introduction of three sports models based on the contemporary range of Rover cars.

In 1885, Starley's nephew John Kemp Starley took these new developments to launch the Rover Safety Bicycle, so-called because the rider, seated much lower and farther behind the front wheel contact point, was less prone to " a header " ( going over the bars ).

The Elise S is the new base model with a Toyota sourced 1. 8L engine replacing the previous models K series Rover engine.

In July 2009, Rover Coaches commenced a new weekday service, Route 163, to Cessnock and Kurri Kurri.

By 1913 Henry Ford had built a new factory in Manchester and was the leading UK producer, building 7310 cars that year, followed by Wolseley at 3000, Humber ( making cars since 1898 in Coventry ) at 2500, Rover ( Coventry car maker since 1904 ) at 1800 and Sunbeam ( producing cars since 1901 ) at 1700, with the plethora of smaller producers bringing the 1913 total up to about 16, 000 vehicles.

Although the UK political scene changed in 1979 with the election of the Thatcher government, the Government continued to support BL with funds for the development of a new mass-market model range ( Mini Metro, Maestro, Montego and another Honda collaboration the Rover 800 ).

After the split from Rover, Honda continued making the Civic range in the UK at a new plant in Swindon.

MG Rover spent the early part of the 2000s investigating possible ventures with other carmakers in order to develop a new range of cars.

In March 2011 Jaguar Land Rover announced that it would be hiring an additional 1, 500 staff at its Halewood plant, and signed over £ 2 billion of supply contracts with UK-based companies, to enable production of its new Range Rover Evoque model.

BMW had acquired the Rover Group from British Aerospace in 1994 and had since sold the Land Rover business to Ford, and split-off the MINI business as a new BMW subsidiary based in Cowley.

In June 2004, it was learned that Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation had signed a joint venture partnership to develop new models and technologies with MG Rover.

The new fast fleet tankers of the Wave class, the small fleet tankers of the Rover class and the support tankers of the Leaf class provide under way refuelling facilities to the RN.

The following year, however, Rover stopped motorcycle production to concentrate on their ' safety bicycle ' but in 1910 designer John Greenwood was commissioned to develop a new 3. 5 hp 500 cc engine with spring-loaded tappets, a Bosch magneto and an innovative inverted tooth drive chain.

In 1924 Rover introduced a new lightweight 250cc motorcycle with unit construction of engine and gearbox.

That year, Searle split Midland Light Car Bodies from Rover in an effort to save money < Ref name = NMM /> and instructed Robert Boyle and Maurice Wilks to design a new small car.