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Marauder 1950-1952 - Rover dreams

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Created in 2013

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Roger Gloor

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Marauder (1950) - at the performance

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Marauder Sports Roadster (1950)

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Marauder (1950) - the vehicle with its makers

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Marauder (1950) - illustration from the brochure of the time

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Marauder (1951) - Front view of the English sports car at the Geneva Motor Show in 1951

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Marauder (1951) - exhibited on the Rover stand at the 1951 Geneva Motor Show

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Marauder (1951) - exhibited between Rover limousines on the Rover stand at the 1951 Geneva Motor Show

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Marauder (1951) - paid its respects on the Rover stand at the 1951 Geneva Motor Show

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There have been around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of which have disappeared. The Marauder brand can also be counted among these vanished brands. The founders all worked at Rover, but they were not allowed to build their dream sports car at Rover. Nevertheless, the leisure project was realized, but there was a lack of capital for large-scale production.

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"On our test drive to Zurich, we chased it relentlessly over the Belgian cobblestones, and then we drove over four Alpine passes to Geneva without the slightest cooling problem..." This was P. M. Wilks' report, written in August 1950: the Marauder was the dream sports car of Peter Wilks, George Mackie and Spencer King, all three of whom were managers at the Rover Company Ltd in Solihull, Birmingham. Wilks later became Rover's Head of Engineering, Mackie made a career at Land Rover, and King became Technical Director at Standard-Triumph. As early as 1948, the three had designed a single-seater racing car based on a Rover chassis, which was used successfully in sprint and hill climb races. In 1950, they turned their dream of a road-going sports car that was as powerful as it was comfortable into reality. As Rover boss S. B. Wilks, uncle of P. M. Wilks, did not want a factory sports model, the Marauder Sports Roadster was created purely as a leisure project.

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