before Rover became the major carmaker it is today, the company started out with bicycles and soon moved into motorcycles. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, over 10,000 motorcycles rolled out of the Coventry factory.
To illustrate: a Rover 499 cm3 motorcycle from 1913

Photo credits: courtesy of Yesterdays.nl
To illustrate: a Rover 499 cm3 motorcycle from 1913

Photo credits: courtesy of Yesterdays.nl