Rover Two-litre

The Rover Two-litre was a mid-size luxury open tourer, saloon or limousine built by the Rover Company of Coventry from 1927 and available until 1932, with the chassis also sold to coachbuilders. Announced in September 1927, it was powered by a watercooled 2 litre straight six overhead valve engine designed by Peter Poppe, giving 45 bhp at 3600 rpm and a top speed of 60 mph, and its 65 mm bore put it in the 16 hp tax class. Poppe's engine became the basis of all but one of Rover's engines until the P3 of 1948. Standard bodies were very light rattle free fabric bodywork built by Rover under licence from Weymann, and the short wheelbase narrow track Rover Light Six variant won attention as the first successful participant in the Blue Train Races against the train between Calais and the French Riviera.