Description Rare and handsome four-light, six-cylinder Rover; current owner since 2003; repainted in 2004; original leather upholstery; in need of recommissioning following a period in storage When Spencer Wilks took the helm at Rover in 1929 and brought in his gifted younger brother Maurice as Chief Engineer, it ushered in a Golden Era for the Coventry-based firm as a string of beautifully made cars began to flow from the New Meteor Works.

Handsome, refined and luxuriously trimmed, Rovers became the cars of choice for the aspirational middle classes, radiating a feel-good factor not far short of that experienced by the upper-class Rolls-Royce owner.

Typical of the breed was the Rover Fourteen (P1), introduced in late-1933 with a silky-smooth 48bhp BH Thomas-designed 1,557cc six-cylinder ohv engine that had made its debut in the interim Pilot 14 model the year before.

Allied to a whisper-quiet four-speed gearbox with freewheel function for clutchless gear changes, it could waft alon...