Q848620
Rover Light Six
The Rover Light Six was a narrower lightweight short wheelbase variant of their Two-litre sports saloon produced from 1929 to 1930 by the Rover Company of Coventry. The following season it was sold with a 2½-litre 20 hp engine under the name Rover Light Twenty.
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Specifications
- name
- Rover Light Six
- Manufacturer
- Rover
- Body style
- sportsman's saloon
- Class
- Midsize car
- Engine
- 2023 cc straight-6
- Transmission
- 3-plate clutch with cork inserts. three speed gearbox controlled by central lever, enclosed propeller shaft - bearing midway in torque tube, spiral bevel final drive, half-floating axle.
- Wheelbase
- 106 in, track 50 in
- Width
- 63 in
- Length
- 159 in
- Kerb weight
- 26 cwt, 2912 lb
- Height
- 66 in
- sp
- uk
Specification summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Measured facts from Wikidata (CC0). Check the linked sources for citations.
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Sources
- Wikidata — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2055229CC0 1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_Light_SixCC BY-SA 4.0 · Text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1253161799 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rover-Lightsix-1.jpgCC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo: Matthias v.d. Elbe · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.