Word: starley
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Rover was founded in 1878 by two engineers, John Kemp Starley and William Sutton, who invented the modern bicycle with equal-sized wheels and chain-driven rear wheel that soon replaced the old penny-farthing cycles on English highways and byways. In 1904 Rover turned to making well-crafted autos, then in wartime 1940 made Britain's first jet engine for aircraft. Rover was also the world's first automaker to produce an experimental jet-powered auto, though it has not proved so usefully down to earth as the firm's tough and dependable Land-Rover...
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