Part of Rover Co
of Solihull
1950 Rover built the first gas-turbine powered car
Rover/Lucas S2, a twin shaft engine, was developed from the famous Rover P6 gas turbine, the engine that almost made it as the world's first automotive gas turbine. The engine was used as a compressor unit for the Nimrod aircraft and also as an Auxiliary Power Unit in the HS748 aircraft.
1963 The Rover B.R.M. Gas Turbine Car was shown at the 1963 Motor Show
A scaled version of this power plant, the Rover 2S75, was the basis of the Rotax CT2023 unit and Lucas CR201 unit.
The gas generator section of this engines formed the basis of the Rover TJ125 minijet engine
1968 Launch of the T.J.125 turbo-jet engine [1]
See Also
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 9th February 1968 p251
- Rover Lucas S2 [1]