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| Landowner Member Since: 06 Jan 2023 Location: Somerset Posts: 66   
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Found this on FB, impressive!
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23rd Mar 2024 11:06am |
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| gcc130 Member Since: 05 Jun 2015 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 737 |
I see no Defender🤷
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23rd Mar 2024 12:50pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17357 
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So not a Defender, not Formula 1, but it is at least a transporter!
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23rd Mar 2024 2:37pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3486 
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I'm sure that sort of thing would be very frowned upon, but this was what made Land Rover's unique, and the ways they were utilised was only limited by people's imagination.
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23rd Mar 2024 4:11pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3486
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Great Photo by the way
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23rd Mar 2024 4:11pm |
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| TexasRover Member Since: 24 Nov 2022 Location: Paris Posts: 1038  
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makes you wonder: what on earth were they thinking. What if it all comes tumbling down while loading, what about the balance when on the car. Surely they had trailers those days?
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23rd Mar 2024 6:41pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3486
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As an engineer with a curious mind, a trailer would be far too easy
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23rd Mar 2024 6:53pm |
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| gcc130 Member Since: 05 Jun 2015 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 737 |
Note the Jag/Daimler front bumper🙂
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23rd Mar 2024 7:08pm |
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| discomog Member Since: 09 May 2015 Location: Notts/Lincs Border Posts: 2526 
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...and here's another variation on a theme and this time it is a Defender
Click image to enlarge Defender 90XS SW Mini Countryman Cooper S Morgan Plus 8 |
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23rd Mar 2024 7:34pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17357
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IF the photo really was taken in September 1953, the Land-Rover can only be weeks old at most since it is an 86". The 86" was launched for the 1954 model year and volume production began in August 1953, so it must be a very early 86".
Yet there has still been time to put lipstick on the pig with the daft (but very new-looking) bumper and the rim "bling" (which looks to be paint). Interesting too that there are no indicators fitted, on an 86" that early the white/red flashing indicators hadn't become an option so it was trafficators or nothing. As far as carrying a Formula 3 car on top, there is probably no problem, it won't be very heavy, byt it does seem a strangely complex solution to a simple problem. Nowadays it would be a magnet for the Police, I am sure. I wonder why they did it that way. It is an interesting photo! |
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24th Mar 2024 4:28pm |
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