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Rover Company
Rover was a Coventry manufacturer whose chain-driven Rover Safety Bicycle became the influential blueprint for the modern bicycle before the company expanded into motorcycles and cars.
Company history
John Kemp Starley and William Sutton founded Starley & Sutton as bicycle manufacturers in Coventry in 1878. Starley's 1885 Rover Safety Bicycle used similar-sized wheels and rear chain drive, a layout that shaped the modern bicycle. The business later became the Rover Cycle Company and then Rover Company, which ceased to be independent in 1967.
- Founded
- 1878–1967
- Headquarters
- Coventry, England, United Kingdom
- Country
- GB
Rover badge on a 1907 Rover 20hp tourer; photograph by DeFacto; CC BY-SA 4.0; original 4115 x 1514 Wikimedia Commons file; owner-authorized use.
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