Pathe news reel on the Rover company

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MikeB
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Pathe news reel on the Rover company

Post by MikeB » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:20 am

Hi, I just came across this on the British Pathe web site, vey interesting viewing, if the link does not work search for pathe news and search for rover cars


http://www.britishpathe.com/video/in-th ... /rover+car

happy Rovering

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Post by dhbuchanan » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:52 pm

Wow,what a film! Absolutely fascinating. Thanks, Mike.
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Post by paul williams » Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:28 pm

There are a number of videos linked to the video page on the web site

http://www.thersr.co.uk/about/videos

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Post by MJLSCOTT » Tue Nov 19, 2024 10:04 am

I watch the Abandoned engineering TV series. There is an episode on the Rover underground factory. Well worth watching. Known as the Drakelow tunnels which have this web site.
https://www.drakelow-tunnels.co.uk/rove ... actory.php

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Post by 47p2 » Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:27 am

Thank you for your interesting post MJLSCOTT. I had not seen that before

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