What is this bracket?

[Barten]

The bracket in the photo; does anyone know what purpose it has got? I am am talking about the bracket just behind the bumper iron.
I don't want to miss out anything, but don't have anything to put there.



Regards, Barten

 

[quattro]

I don't have one of those :? In fact I don't think I had one on any P6 I have owned.

Nice and clean under there

 

[Barten]

Thank you Quattro. It has a similar bracket on the other side as well. It is a mystery then?
Regards, Barten

 

[Barten]

I have now checked my other Rover and it has got the brackets as well. Both cars are lhd and the brackets are not used for anything. Maybe it is a feature for fastening the nada bumpers and all lhd cars got them?? It would be interesting if a nada owner could check if the brackets are used for the bumpers.
Regards, Barten

 

[Pilkie]

Is the car by any chance a Nada/Federal 3500S?
If so it is where the tie down bracket/eye for shipping anchor points were mounted.
They may also have been fitted to other models that were shipped abroad by sea.
They also double up in normal use as towing brackets.

 

[corazon]

I see them on quite a few cars, and my '72 has them. They always annoy me as I tend to put high axle stands there and I prefer the flat surface. Saying that, if you have stands with a V type seat it sits quite neatly and pivots but wont tip the stand while you jack the rear..
Jim

 

[Barten]

My cars are not nada models. The 3500 is sold new in germany and the 3500s is sold new in Norway. But they ave been shipped and brackets for strapping them down is a possible answer.
Regards, Barten

 

[Barten]

Pilkie, i see in your first photo the bracket has a rod going through it. What is that rod for?
Regards, barten

 

[Pilkie]

In the 2nd pic you see an eye under the bumper.
That end is bolted to the bumper bracket and the rod bit is the extension part of the eye that bolts to that bracket.

 

[testrider]

I see them on quite a few cars, and my '72 has them. They always annoy me as I tend to put high axle stands there and I prefer the flat surface. Saying that, if you have stands with a V type seat it sits quite neatly and pivots but wont tip the stand while you jack the rear..
Jim

I've got them too, and they are right in the best spot for axle stands.

 

[Barten]

Aha, so it is for the towing bracket! Mystery solved then. Thank you very much Pilkie!
Regards, Barten

 

[Dave3066]

My '72 3500S has them too



Dave

 

[Pilkie]

Was it originally exported Dave?

 

[arthuy]

were they not used for mounting the body shell during production?

Anyone got production line photos?

Colin

 

[Pilkie]

No idea,but they were used for tying down the cars on the ro/ro ocean going car ferries,and they had tie down eylets mounted to the lower bit of the rear bumpers.

 

[arthuy]

I had a look at the 2000 factory film on youtube. They did bolt a bracket front and rear to lift and rotate the shells the placement on the V8 cars must have been similar.

It is possible that this is from that, It is a pretty meaty bracket and if normal production cars have them it would make sense. Certainly good from other uses.

Don't you love the way that these cars still throw up mysteries.

Colin

 

[Barten]

So we can conclude these are multifunction brackets then. Rover does it again!
Regards, Barten

 

[Dave3066]

Was it originally exported Dave?

Not to my knowledge. It's been UK based all its life.

Dave

 

[74westy]

NZ cars have these as well. My understanding is these cars were CKD (with the roof cut off) so not shipped RO/RO style. So factory rotation brackets sounds good.

I didn't think to use these as axle stand points though. But I like the idea

Craig