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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Cars Of To-Day". The Times. No. 44780. 3 January 1928. p. 17.
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- ↑ "Rover Cars". The Times. No. 45423. 29 January 1930. p. 19.
- 1 2 Culshaw; Horrobin (1974). Complete Catalogue of British Cars. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-16689-2.
- ↑ Hough and Frostick (1966). Rover Memories. London: George Allen and Unwin.
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