Every model. Every year. Every spec.
422 named vehicles and 114 structural configurations, catalogued with liveries, categories and sources. Research is ongoing — records marked awaiting research will grow.
+3Series I
1948–53The original Land Rover: the 80-inch Series I launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show on 30 April 1948 with a 1.6-litre petrol engine and Birmabright aluminium body, upgraded to 2.0 litres for 1952. Around 82,000…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Series I
1956–58The 88-inch Land Rover was the final short-wheelbase form of the original Series I, built by the Rover Company at Solihull from mid-1956 to 1958 with soft top, hard top, pickup and seven-seat station wagon bodies.…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Series I
1956–58The 109-inch Land Rover was the long-wheelbase load-carrier of the final Series I generation, built by the Rover Company at Solihull from mid-1956 to 1958 as a pickup, hard top and soft top; the five-door station…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Series II
1958–61The short-wheelbase 88-inch Land Rover Series II (1958-1961), the first Land Rover styled by David Bache, whose 'barrel side' waistline covered the new wider track. Offered as a soft top, hard top, truck-cab pickup…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Series II
1958–61The long-wheelbase 109-inch Land Rover Series II (1958-1961), David Bache's barrel-sided restyle of the original Land Rover in its load-carrying form. Sold as a soft top, hard top, truck-cab pickup and - new for 1958…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Series III
1971–85The short-wheelbase Land Rover Series III, built at Solihull from September 1971 until 1985, paired the classic 88-inch leaf-sprung chassis with an all-synchromesh gearbox, plastic grille and modernised interior. It…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Series III
1979–85The Series III Stage 1 V8 (1979-1985) squeezed the Range Rover's detuned 3.5-litre V8 and LT95 permanent four-wheel drive into the leaf-sprung Series III body, making it the only Series Land Rover with constant 4WD…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Santana Series (88/109)
1977Spain's licence-built Land Rovers from Metalúrgica de Santa Ana in Linares gained an engine Solihull never offered: Santana's own 3,429 cc six-cylinder diesel, built by adding two cylinders to the 2.25-litre four and…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
+3Series III
1971–85The long-wheelbase Land Rover Series III carried the 109-inch leaf-sprung chassis from September 1971 until 1985, offered as pickup, hardtop, High Capacity Pick Up and twelve-seat station wagon with four- and…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Series III
1979–85The Series III Stage 1 V8 (1979-1985) squeezed the Range Rover's detuned 3.5-litre V8 and LT95 permanent four-wheel drive into the leaf-sprung Series III body, making it the only Series Land Rover with constant 4WD…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Santana Series (88/109)
1977Spain's licence-built Land Rovers from Metalúrgica de Santa Ana in Linares gained an engine Solihull never offered: Santana's own 3,429 cc six-cylinder diesel, built by adding two cylinders to the 2.25-litre four and…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
+3Defender
1984–2016The short-wheelbase member of Land Rover's coil-sprung utility line, launched as the Ninety in 1984 and badged Defender 90 from 1990 until production ended in January 2016 — the last Defender built was a 90 Heritage…
Land Rover United Kingdom
+3Defender
1983–2016The 110-inch-wheelbase core of Land Rover's coil-sprung utility line, launched as the One Ten in 1983 and badged Defender 110 from 1990; built as station wagon, hard top and pickup until production ended in January 2016.
Land Rover United Kingdom
Defender
1985–2016The long-wheelbase chassis-cab and crew-cab workhorse of the Defender line, introduced as the Land Rover 127 in 1985 and badged Defender 130 from 1990 while keeping its 127-inch wheelbase; the standard platform for…
Land Rover United Kingdom
Range Rover Classic
1970–96The original luxury 4x4: launched in June 1970 as 'A Car For All Reasons', the two-door Range Rover paired the Rover V8 with long-travel coil springs and permanent four-wheel drive, and stayed in production for 26 years.
Land Rover United Kingdom
Range Rover P38 (P38A)
1994–2001The second-generation Range Rover of 1994-2001, developed as project 38A under Rover Group and launched just after BMW's takeover, with 4.0/4.6 Rover V8 or BMW six-cylinder diesel power and standard electronic air…
Land Rover United Kingdom
Range Rover L322
2001–12The third-generation Range Rover (2001-2012): engineered under BMW to 7 Series standards with a monocoque body and all-independent air suspension, launched under Ford ownership, and finished its run under Tata's…
Land Rover United Kingdom
Discovery 1
1989–98Land Rover's 1989 family 4x4: 'Project Jay' put a stepped-roof seven-seat body and Conran-influenced Sonar Blue interior on Range Rover underpinnings, creating the mid-market Discovery that transformed the company's…
Land Rover United Kingdom
Discovery 3
2004–09The clean-sheet third Discovery of 2004-2009 (LR3 in North America): Ford-era engineering with the hybrid Integrated Body Frame, independent air suspension, up to seven full-size seats and the debut of Terrain Response.
Land Rover United Kingdom
Santana PS-10 / Aníbal
2002–11Short-wheelbase three-door version of the Santana PS-10 — sold in Spain as the Santana Aníbal — the Defender-like utility 4x4 that Santana Motor of Linares developed from its own Land Rover-derived Santana 2500 and…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana PS-10 / Aníbal
2002–11Long-wheelbase Santana PS-10 — the Santana Aníbal in its home market — built at Linares from 2002 to 2011 as a five-door station wagon and as single- and double-cab pickups on a 2,768 mm (109 in) chassis, and adopted…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
+1Santana 1300
1967–78Forward-control 1.3-tonne truck that Santana built at Linares from 1967 to 1978 on the 109-inch Land Rover Santana Series IIA chassis, with the cab and running gear pushed as far forward as possible to free up the…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 2000 FC
1978–86Enlarged forward-control Santana that replaced the 1300 at the end of the 1970s, carrying two tonnes on a Santana-developed 3.4-litre six-cylinder engine. Sold mainly as a chassis-cab for bodying — tippers, tankers…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Series II
1959–67The Australian Army's four-stretcher "Bloodbox" — a 109-inch Land Rover carrying a tall, insulated aluminium medical body designed by the Army Design Establishment and built by Pressed Metal Corporation in Sydney.…
Pressed Metal Corporation Australia
Perentie
1989–92'Truck, Ambulance, Light, 4 Litter, FFR, Winch, MC2' — the Australian Army's front-line field ambulance from 1989, a Perentie 6×6 carrying a self-contained, demountable fibreglass treatment module for four stretcher…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1989–92The box-bodied working 6×6s: General Maintenance, Electronic Repair and COMSEC Repair Perenties, each carrying an insulated fibreglass module roughly 3 m long, 2 m high and 2.4 m wide in place of the cargo tray. The…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1989–92The two-tonne cargo truck of the Perentie 6×6 range — 'Truck, Cargo, Light, MC2' — an open tray with hoops and a canvas tilt, outward-facing bench seats for twelve in the back and three in the cab. It was the most…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1989The Long Range Patrol Vehicle is the open-bodied 6×6 Perentie built exclusively for Australia's Special Air Service Regiment - 27 were produced, and they carried SASR patrols through Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1986–92The rare closed-body end of the Perentie 4×4 range: panel-van Survey trucks, Carryall station wagons for personnel and senior commanders, and a pair of hard-top Command Post prototypes. All share a 'safari' tropical…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1987–92The canvas-tilt workhorse of the Australian Army's Perentie fleet: 'Truck, Utility, Lightweight, MC2', a one-tonne drop-side tray with hoops and a tilt, carrying eight troops or a tonne of stores. With 1,222 built…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Defender
1984–2016The short-wheelbase member of Land Rover's coil-sprung utility line, launched as the Ninety in 1984 and badged Defender 90 from 1990 until production ended in January 2016 — the last Defender built was a 90 Heritage…
United Kingdom
Defender
1983–2016The 110-inch-wheelbase core of Land Rover's coil-sprung utility line, launched as the One Ten in 1983 and badged Defender 110 from 1990; built as station wagon, hard top and pickup until production ended in January 2016.
United Kingdom
Series II
1961–82British military field ambulance on the Land Rover 109-inch chassis, with a raised two-to-four-stretcher body built chiefly by Marshall of Cambridge to the MoD's FV18044 specification. Around 2,000 served the British…
Marshall of Cambridge, Mickleover Transport United Kingdom
Series III
1970–76Rapid-intervention airfield crash rescue truck of the RAF and Royal Navy, built by HCB-Angus on uprated 1-Ton-specification Land Rover 109 chassis to reach a crashed aircraft and begin rescue work ahead of the major…
HCB-Angus United Kingdom
Range Rover Classic
1977–87Six-wheeled Range Rover airfield crash rescue truck of the RAF and Royal Navy, built on the Carmichael-developed 6×4 Commando chassis with bodies by Gloster Saro, Carmichael and HCB-Angus, and famed as one of the…
Carmichael & Sons, HCB-Angus United Kingdom
Series II
1958Four-track bogie conversion of the Series Land Rover by James A. Cuthbertson Ltd of Biggar, Scotland: the complete vehicle sits on a sprocket-driven tracked subframe that cuts ground pressure to about 1.9 psi for…
James A. Cuthbertson Ltd United Kingdom
Defender
1978–84Half-track military multi-role vehicle built 1978-1984 by Laird (Anglesey) Ltd: a Land Rover V8 front end mated to shortened Alvis Scorpion CVR(T) running gear. Despite trials in Oman and Norway only two of the seven…
Laird (Anglesey) Ltd United Kingdom
Series II
1958–64Short-wheelbase companion to the Australian Army's 109″ fleet: the first Series 2 88″ ¼-ton trucks entered service in early 1959 from CKD kits assembled by Pressed Metal Corporation in Sydney, followed in 1963–64 by…
Pressed Metal Corporation United Kingdom, Australia
Series II
1958–59The Australian Army's first Series 2 Land Rovers: 88″ trucks designated Command and Reconnaissance ¼-ton, delivered from December 1958 in gloss Deep Bronze Green with only light militarisation over the civilian…
Pressed Metal Corporation United Kingdom, Australia
Series II
1959–72General-service 109″ Land Rovers of the Australian Army, bought from around 1960 as near-civilian Series 2s and then as heavily modified Series 2A ¾-ton GS trucks, locally assembled at Pressed Metal Corporation in…
Pressed Metal Corporation United Kingdom, Australia
Defender
1993–2011The Panama was a remotely operated route-proving vehicle of the British Armed Forces: a surplus Snatch Land Rover converted for unmanned operation and fitted with a boom-mounted ground-penetrating radar to find…
MIRA Ltd, PA Consulting Group United Kingdom
Defender
1992The Snatch Land Rover is a protected patrol vehicle built on the heavy-duty Defender 110 chassis with NP Aerospace's CAV 100 composite armour, introduced in 1992 for Northern Ireland and later deployed —…
NP Aerospace United Kingdom
Defender
1996The Land Rover Wolf (Defender XD, in service as Truck Utility Light/Medium HS) is the strengthened 300 Tdi-powered military Defender ordered by the UK Ministry of Defence in January 1996 — roughly 8,000 vehicles that…
United Kingdom
Defender
1998The WMIK (Weapons Mount Installation Kit, 'wimik') is the open-topped reconnaissance and fire-support variant of the Wolf TUM HS, developed by Ricardo with Land Rover from the late 1990s: stripped of its roof and…
Ricardo plc United Kingdom
Defender
1985The SAS's Land Rover 110 Desert Patrol Vehicle — a Glover Webb-converted, V8-powered open 110 High Capacity Pick-Up adopted from 1985 to replace the Series IIA 'Pink Panthers', and still nicknamed the 'Pinkie' even…
Glover Webb United Kingdom
Santana Series (88/109)
1969Long-wheelbase military Land Rover developed by Spain's Santana works at Linares — the Militar 109, an angular flat-fronted troop carrier built for the Spanish armed forces from around 1969 alongside the…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Cab-over · Medical body
1972–78Ambulance variant of the Land Rover 101 Forward Control, the V8-powered one-tonne cab-over gun tractor built for the British military between 1972 and 1978, with four-stretcher ambulance bodywork by Marshall of…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Series III
1968–84The Land Rover ½-ton Lightweight (Air-Portable) was a stripped-down, narrowed military Land Rover built from 1968 to 1984 so that a serviceable vehicle could be slung beneath a Westland Wessex helicopter or…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1968The 'Pink Panther' was the SAS's long-range desert patrol vehicle of the late 1960s and 1970s: 72 Series IIA 109s converted by Marshall of Cambridge, stripped of doors, roof and windscreen, laden with fuel, water and…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Series IIA
1965–68The first production Shorland Armoured Patrol Car, built by Short Brothers & Harland on a 109 in Series IIA military chassis with 7.25 mm armour and a Ferret-style turret mounting a .30 in Browning. About 100 were…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Series I
1952–56Armoured 'Blindé' variant of the Belgian Minerva TT Series I 80", built around 1955 with quarter-inch frontal plate, bulletproof glass and multiple machine-gun mounts for the parachute reconnaissance units of the…
Minerva Belgium
Series I
1952–56Field ambulance conversion of the Minerva TT, the Belgian-built Series I 80" Land Rover produced under Rover licence at Mortsel from 1952 to 1956, carrying two stretchers under an extended tilt for the Belgian Army…
Minerva Belgium
Defender
1996The British Army's battlefield ambulance of the Wolf era: a Marshall of Cambridge box body on the ultra-long Defender 130 (XD) chassis, procured under Project Pulse alongside the Wolf 90/110 order of January 1996 —…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Central driving position · Prototype
1947The very first Land Rover: a one-off 1947 engineering prototype with a centrally mounted steering wheel, built on a war-surplus Jeep chassis to prove Maurice Wilks' idea of an agricultural 4x4. The original vanished…
United Kingdom
Defender
2015One-off Defender 90 created in 2015 by Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations with fashion designer Sir Paul Smith, its exterior panels finished in 27 individually chosen colours.
United Kingdom
Series II
19591959 Series II 109 pickup formerly owned by actors Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, sold on Bring a Trailer in August 2026 with the couple's handwritten farewell note.
United Kingdom
Series I
1954–58A real Land Rover Series One 107 ute restomod offered by Brooklyn Coachworks and built in collaboration with Land Rover fabricator Timm Cooper: a refurbished 107-inch tray-back body on Rovertracks-converted Range…
Brooklyn Coachworks United Kingdom, United States
Series III
1976–77Red Series III truck cab THP 36R, the working Land Rover of Bolton steeplejack and television personality Fred Dibnah, signwritten 'F. DIBNAH & SONS - STEEPLEJACK' and fitted with a ladder gantry.
United Kingdom
Series II
2024A real vehicle: the tray-back 109 ute run by Jack Oliver Dobson — the Brisbane-based classic Land Rover restorer who posts as 'Dobbo Down Under' — and known in his workshop as the 'Shop Truck'. Bought with sound…
Jack Oliver Dobson United Kingdom, Australia
Series I
1955'Oxford' (SNX 891) is one of the two Series I 86" Station Wagons of the 1955-56 Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition - the 'First Overland' from London to Singapore. Recovered from St Helena and rebuilt in 2017…
United Kingdom
Range Rover Classic
1982Armoured Range Rover popemobile with a raised bullet-resistant glass enclosure, one of two designed by Ogle Design for Pope John Paul II's 1982 visit to Britain - the first bulletproof popemobiles.
Ogle Design United Kingdom
Defender
2011–15'Bigfoot' Defender 110 double cab stunt vehicles built by Bowler for Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations for the 2015 James Bond film Spectre - ten built on Santorini Black crew cabs with 37-inch tyres, roll cages…
Bowler United Kingdom
Series I
1958One of six open ceremonial 88″ review Land Rovers assembled from knocked-down kits by Pressed Metal Corporation in Sydney in 1958, finished in Royal Claret with chrome handrails and blue royal lamps for the Queen…
Pressed Metal Corporation United Kingdom, Australia
Defender
2000–25Long-wheelbase Defender 110 rescue ambulances of the North Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team, Okehampton - stretcher-carrying, radio-equipped 4×4s that take rescuers and casualties across the highest ground on Dartmoor.
United Kingdom
Series I
1949–58Factory-built fire tender on the Series I Land Rover, sold by Rover from the late 1940s with a power-take-off-driven pump, hoses and equipment lockers for estate, works and rural brigades.
Carmichael & Sons United Kingdom
Defender
1986The Land Rover Tangi is an armoured police vehicle designed and built in-house by the Royal Ulster Constabulary's own vehicle engineers on the Land Rover Defender 110 chassis, entering service in Belfast in January…
RUC Vehicle Engineering, Seapark United Kingdom
Series II
1961–75Motor-caravan conversion of the 109 Land Rover Station Wagon by Martin Walter Ltd of Folkestone, with the firm's trademark side-hinged elevating roof, bunks, cooker and sink. Roughly a thousand were converted between…
Martin Walter Ltd (Dormobile) United Kingdom
Series I
1948–51The first Land Rover Station Wagon: a seven-seat, aluminium-panelled, wood-framed estate body built by coachbuilder Tickford of Newport Pagnell on the 80-inch Series I chassis from 1948 to 1951. Taxed as a private…
Tickford Ltd United Kingdom
110″ · Forward cab & canvas load bed
1966–72Land Rover's improved factory forward-control truck of 1966-1972: cab over engine on a 110-inch wheelbase with wider heavy-duty ENV axles for a 30cwt payload. Just 2,305 were built, more than half with the 2.6-litre…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1961–66High-clearance forestry conversion of the 109 Land Rover by Roadless Traction Ltd of Hounslow, riding on huge tractor wheels so it could straddle plantation plough furrows. Launched in 1961 after Forestry Commission…
Roadless Traction Ltd United Kingdom
Defender
1984–89The Camel Trophy 110 represents the Sandglow-yellow Land Rover One Ten/110 team vehicles of the Camel Trophy, the 'Olympics of 4x4' endurance event that ran from 1980 to 2000 and used Land Rovers from 1981 to 1998.
United Kingdom
Series III
1979A real vehicle: 'Leyland', a 1979 Series III airfield crash rescue (ACR) ambulance with a Marshall of Cambridge body, and the founding project of UK-linked restorer The Meteor Works. It served the Royal Air Force at…
The Meteor Works United Kingdom
Range Rover P38 (P38A)
1994–2001The second-generation Range Rover of 1994-2001, developed as project 38A under Rover Group and launched just after BMW's takeover, with 4.0/4.6 Rover V8 or BMW six-cylinder diesel power and standard electronic air…
United Kingdom
Range Rover L322
2001–12The third-generation Range Rover (2001-2012): engineered under BMW to 7 Series standards with a monocoque body and all-independent air suspension, launched under Ford ownership, and finished its run under Tata's…
United Kingdom
Discovery 1
1989–98Land Rover's 1989 family 4x4: 'Project Jay' put a stepped-roof seven-seat body and Conran-influenced Sonar Blue interior on Range Rover underpinnings, creating the mid-market Discovery that transformed the company's…
United Kingdom
Discovery 3
2004–09The clean-sheet third Discovery of 2004-2009 (LR3 in North America): Ford-era engineering with the hybrid Integrated Body Frame, independent air suspension, up to seven full-size seats and the debut of Terrain Response.
United Kingdom
Series III
1971–85The standard long-wheelbase workhorse of the British armed forces through the 1970s and 1980s: the Series III 109 in General Service (GS) trim, with canvas tilt, military bumper and bonnet-mounted spare wheel.
United Kingdom
Santana Ligero
1969Santana's short-wheelbase light military Land Rover — the 88 Militar of 1969, popularly known as the Ligero — an angular, narrow-bodied Spanish counterpart to the British Lightweight, built at Linares for the Spanish…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Series III
1971–85Long-wheelbase Series Land Rovers served the Royal Hong Kong Police in their hundreds from the 1960s into the 1990s, painted in the force's post-1967 dark navy blue with the Royal crest, bilingual POLICE signs and…
United Kingdom
Range Rover L322
2001–12UK police forces ran the third-generation Range Rover (L322) as a motorway patrol flagship in white Battenburg livery; this record's subject, Cheshire Constabulary's 2004 4.4 V8 DK54 HSU, was the force's last Range…
United Kingdom
Range Rover Classic
1992–2001Armoured, stretched Range Rover Classics converted by S. MacNeillie & Son for the Ministry of Defence Police Special Escort Group, which rode close escort on the Trident nuclear-warhead convoys between AWE Burghfield…
S. MacNeillie & Son Ltd United Kingdom
Cab-over prototype · Enclosed cargo box
1985–88Land Rover's cancelled mid-1980s forward-control project — officially the 110 Forward Control, codenamed Llama — built on a strengthened One Ten chassis with a tilting glass-fibre cab to replace the MoD's 101 gun…
United Kingdom
Defender
1987–90Turkish Otokar-built Defender 90 'gunship' — a split-screen soft-top mounting the 105 mm M40A1 recoilless rifle as a mobile anti-armour portée, fielded by Turkish forces.
Otokar Turkey
Defender
1987Otokar's soft-top military Defenders — open patrol and weapons-mount Defender 90s and canvas-topped 110/130 troop and cargo carriers built under Land Rover licence in Turkey from 1987 for the Turkish Armed Forces and…
Otokar Turkey
Series II
1963–64Australian Army "Gunbuggy": a stripped 88″ Series 2/2A Land Rover rebuilt by RAEME workshops to carry the M40A1 106 mm recoilless rifle as a shoot-and-scoot anti-tank vehicle — 69 were converted and the type served…
RAEME 3 Base Workshop Australia, United Kingdom
Series III
1979–85The Series III Stage 1 V8 (1979-1985) squeezed the Range Rover's detuned 3.5-litre V8 and LT95 permanent four-wheel drive into the leaf-sprung Series III body, making it the only Series Land Rover with constant 4WD…
United Kingdom
Santana Series (88/109)
1977Spain's licence-built Land Rovers from Metalúrgica de Santa Ana in Linares gained an engine Solihull never offered: Santana's own 3,429 cc six-cylinder diesel, built by adding two cylinders to the 2.25-litre four and…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Defender
1985–2016The long-wheelbase chassis-cab and crew-cab workhorse of the Defender line, introduced as the Land Rover 127 in 1985 and badged Defender 130 from 1990 while keeping its 127-inch wheelbase; the standard platform for…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1969–70A Post Office Recovery Land Rover — a Series IIA 88-inch hard top of 1969–70, XAH 758H, in the Post Office's red with gold and yellow, POST OFFICE RECOVERY lettered along the roof edge and a yellow beacon on the…
United Kingdom
Defender
2008The open game-viewing Defender 110 of Gondwana Game Reserve in the Western Cape: three stepped rows of padded bench seats behind the cab, a mesh guard across the front and a tracker's seat perched above the front…
United Kingdom, South Africa
Defender
2012Fleet vehicle 14 of Nkambeni Safari Camp's game-drive Defenders inside Kruger National Park: green coachwork with a yellow stripe, a high canvas canopy over tiered passenger seats and the camp's fleet number on the…
United Kingdom, South Africa
Series IIA
1965A Herbert Lomas coachbuilt ambulance on the Series IIA 109: the Handforth firm's rounded, fully integrated body in place of the Land Rover's own, here the 1965 factory demonstrator in Limestone that Lomas kept until…
Herbert Lomas Ltd United Kingdom
Series IIA
1967The Herbert Lomas coachbuilt ambulance on the Series IIA 109 in service green — a preserved 1967 example with all its original stretchers and equipment, standing for the Lomas bodies the Navy and Royal Marines ran…
Herbert Lomas Ltd United Kingdom
Series II
1962The Cineroma: Cintec Ltd's self-contained 16 mm mobile cinema on a Land Rover 109 station wagon, approved by Rover in 1962 — a Bell & Howell 640 projector, re-entrant horn speakers on the roof and a 3 kVA generator…
Cintec Ltd United Kingdom
Series III
1970sA Series III 109 station wagon travelling cinema: one of the long-wheelbase Land Rovers converted to carry projection equipment, loudspeakers and a large roof-mounted screen for educational film shows in African…
United Kingdom
Defender
2012The Sri Lanka Army President's Guard's VIP escort Defenders: black open-sided Defender 110s with a canvas canopy on a tubular frame, inward-facing bench seats for a section of guardsmen, a rear step and white wheels…
United Kingdom
Series II
1962The Cuthbertson Snowplough: a 7 ft 6 in V-blade of all-welded steel, weighing 460 lb, hung from a Land Rover's chassis on pivoting arms and tie rods — fitted in five minutes with no alteration to the vehicle, and…
James A. Cuthbertson Ltd United Kingdom
Series II
1958The Dale Bull-Angledozer: a 66-inch hydraulic dozer blade for the Land Rover, raised by a single-acting ram from a hand pump in the cab and angled 25° either way, made by J. B. Howie of Salford Priors near Evesham…
J. B. Howie (Dale) United Kingdom
Defender
1990A Foley Specialist Vehicles six-wheel Defender: a 110 station wagon stretched to take a third axle, driven through a Foley-made transfer case on the second axle while the original Land Rover transfer box, axles and…
Foley Specialist Vehicles United Kingdom
Series III
1983–84A six-wheel-drive Series III Stage 1 V8 run by SEEBOARD, the South Eastern Electricity Board, and fitted with a tensioning winch for pulling up and tensioning overhead transmission-line conductors: A457 SHU, a…
United Kingdom
Santana PS-10 / Aníbal
2002–03Norfolk Constabulary's Santana PS-10: a white Spanish-built 110-inch station wagon, AO52 UXW, wearing only a blue POLICE band with chequer blocks on the front doors, POLICE on the bonnet and the force crest — no blue…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Defender
2009A Defender 110 station wagon of Portugal's Guarda Nacional Republicana, the gendarmerie that polices the 94 per cent of the country outside the cities: dark green with a white roof lettered GUARDA NACIONAL…
United Kingdom
Defender
2014A Straż Graniczna (Polish Border Guard) Defender 110 station wagon, HWA A334, photographed on the Vistula Spit where the Warmińsko-Mazurski unit patrols the frontier with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave: plain dark…
United Kingdom
Defender
2010The Hong Kong Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau's three-axle Defender 130, AM 6788: a 6×6 crew cab carrying a tall white box body in the force's white livery with red wings, a red waist band edged in blue…
United Kingdom
Series III
1971A Royal Danish Army Series III 109-inch, registration 51.258, carrying a tall rounded-roof shelter body fitted with a Sylvania automatic telephone exchange — a field switchboard on wheels — in the Danish three-colour…
United Kingdom, Denmark
Series III
1980sThe Danish Army's one Marshall of Cambridge ambulance: a Series III 109-inch, registration 51.352, with the two- or four-stretcher Marshall body in plain olive, red-cross panels on the sides and roof, white tactical…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Series III
1990sA Danish Army Series III 109-inch station wagon, registration 52.042, used as a brigade commander's caravan: a mobile command post fitted with DA/VRQ-282 and DA/GRC-420 VHF radios and an Eberspächer heater, in…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1970A Danish Army Series IIA 109-inch, registration 40.405, used from around 1970 as a Tactical Air Control Party vehicle: a truck cab with a canvas tilt, a rack over the cab roof, whip aerials for its EL/K-1004…
United Kingdom
Series III
1977–78A Danish Army Series III 88-inch general-service soft top, registration 48.928: ordered in 1977, in service from 1978 in a wide range of roles until the Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen replaced it, in the three-colour…
United Kingdom
Defender
2008–09A Danish Army Defender 110 station wagon, registration 98.316, issued in spring 2009 — NATO-funded — to the Deployable Communications Modules Company at Haderslev in place of its Mercedes-Benz 290GD station wagons: a…
United Kingdom
Series II
1959–60Lincoln Electric's 1960 welding Land Rover: a Series II 109-inch soft top, WAC 612, carrying the L.R. 150 portable welding generator on a tubular frame hung from the tailboard hinges in place of the tailboard…
Lincoln Electric Co. Ltd United Kingdom
Defender
1999Foley Specialist Vehicles' Defender 130 Td5 game viewer built for the giraffe park at Chessington World of Adventures, T69 JSS: a sand-painted two-door cab ahead of a high-sided open body with tiered bench seats and…
Foley Specialist Vehicles United Kingdom
Defender
A British Rail road-rail Land Rover as recorded in Oxford Rail's 1:76 model: a Defender 110 hard top in engineers' yellow with a white roof, hydraulically lowered rail guide wheels at each end, a bonnet spare, a roof…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1964Series IIA 109-inch hard top BBH 942B, supplied to British Railways in 1964 as the goods-yard runabout at Stewarts Lane, Battersea, and restored by railwayman Jim Barnard in the early 'blood and custard' British…
United Kingdom
Series II
1950–60Rover's 'Rail Rover' trial: a Series II 88 hard top fitted with flanged railway wheels in place of its road wheels for track inspection and light shunting — one of several rail conversions tried over the years…
United Kingdom
Defender
A road-rail Land Rover of the kind run by railway engineering departments and later produced by Harsco Track Technologies: a Defender single-cab pickup with hydraulically lowered flanged guide wheels at both ends for…
United Kingdom
Series III
1972'The Birdcage', FXC 863L: a 1972 Series III 88 pick-up shown at the Motor Show with a dual-colour wheel scheme, then converted into a Solihull works vehicle for installing winch cables on 101 Forward Controls — a…
United Kingdom
Series I
1957'Grizzly Torque', the custom-built 1957 Land Rover Series I 107-inch in which Canadian biologist Bristol Foster and artist Robert Bateman drove for 14 months through 19 countries on four continents, painting, filming…
United Kingdom
Defender
2015The Defender 110 provided under the 2015 Royal Geographical Society Land Rover Bursary for the Trail by Fire expedition, which drove the length of the Andean volcanic arc measuring volcanic gas emissions — modelled…
United Kingdom
Defender
2016The Defender 110 provided under the 2016 Royal Geographical Society Land Rover Bursary for the Transcaucasian Expedition, which set out to map a long-distance hiking trail through the Caucasus of Georgia and Armenia…
United Kingdom
Series I
1952The Land Rover Series I in which George Adamson, the Kenya game warden later famous for Born Free, drove from Nairobi to London via the Congo, Nigeria and Algeria, leaving Nairobi on 21 March 1953 — a journey he…
United Kingdom
Defender
2020sDefenderX: two Defender 110 station wagons, Princess and The Mother Ship, fitted with bolt-on pontoons and an engine-driven X-drive propeller plus 38-inch tyres for an attempted London to New York drive-and-swim…
United Kingdom
Series I
1950Pollyanna, Barbara Toy's 1950 Series I 80-inch KYH 628, in which she drove alone from Tangier to Baghdad in 1950 and then became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a Land Rover — shown by Land Rover…
United Kingdom
Defender
2007–16Volcano Trails' Icelandic 'Super Defender': a Defender 110 station wagon rebuilt by Reykjavík 4x4 specialists on 37-inch tyres under wide flares, with a snorkel for river crossings, on-board compressor for deflating…
United Kingdom, Iceland
Defender
2011Defender 110 2.4 TDCi station wagon fully colour-changed from white to Sand by Foley Specialist Vehicles, with a colour-coded Maggiolina roof tent and heavy-duty Wolf rims, fitted out for expedition with roll bar…
Foley Specialist Vehicles United Kingdom
Defender
1997The Land Rover Defender 90 that made the 1997 ascent of Mount Elbrus: over 44 days an eight-strong Russian team drove, winched and hauled the dark blue, white-roofed 90 to the 5,621 m eastern summit through…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1960sThe Land Rover half of Scottorn's Bushmaster outfit, as pictured in the 1960s with the powered trailer behind it: a Series IIA 109 stripped to an open, doorless fire tender in deep bronze green with its tub cut down…
Scottorn Trailers United Kingdom
Series III
1983The Southern Electricity Board's Hotspur six-wheel Stage 1 V8, SRD 819Y: a 1983 109-inch Stage 1 rebuilt by Hotspur to a 6×6 chassis to carry a larger Spencer B-28 cherry picker for overhead-line work from the…
Hotspur Armoured Products United Kingdom
Defender
2015The 2015 Bowler Pennine V6 110 Prototype, FJ15 JXV: a one-off rally raid car on a Defender 110 crew-cab chassis with the 335 bhp supercharged Jaguar F-Type V6 and ZF eight-speed automatic — the last Bowler built…
Bowler United Kingdom
Defender
2015Bowler's 2015 Defender 90 hard top XS with the firm's Fast Road suspension and a Stage 1 tune of the 2.2-litre TDCi: a black 90 with black alloys, a silver grille and a large red BOWLER script across the hard top…
Bowler United Kingdom
Series III
1986–87The British Army Series III 88-inch soft top of The Living Daylights' pre-title Gibraltar chase (1987) — the munitions truck Bond drops onto through its canvas roof before it goes over the cliff — shown here as the…
United Kingdom
Series III
1977James Bond's Jamaican runabout in No Time To Die (2021): a blue 1977 Land Rover Series III 88-inch, right-hand drive with a bonnet-mounted spare and grey plastic wheel-arch extensions, which Daniel Craig drives from…
United Kingdom
Defender
2016The Defender 130 gun bus built by Foley Specialist Vehicles in 2016 for shooting parties at Sandringham — a bronze green single cab with a tall, windowed box body — which Prince Philip then had redesigned, with his…
Foley Specialist Vehicles United Kingdom
Defender
2024Land Rover Classic Works Bespoke's ten-off Defender Works V8 Churchill Edition: 2012–2016 Defenders rebuilt with the 5.0-litre 405 bhp V8 and ZF eight-speed automatic, painted Bronze Green to match Sir Winston…
United Kingdom
Defender
2024Land Rover Classic's ten-car Defender Works V8 DAKTARI Edition, developed with Land Rover Germany as a tribute to the Series II safari Land Rovers of the 1960s television series Daktari: Dark Grey with an Alpine…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1969Pastel green 1969 Series IIA 88-inch truck cab, one of two supplied by Action 99 Cars and driven by Mr McGregor in the Lake District scenes of Sony's Peter Rabbit (2018), sold at H&H's Duxford sale in March 2018.
United Kingdom
Santana Series (88/109)
1983The 1983 Santana 109 Papamóvil, SCV 1: a cream Series III-derived Santana built at Linares with an armoured, tinted-glass cabin over the rear body — commissioned after the 1981 attempt on John Paul II's life as the…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Series I
1954The last of Rover's State III Royal Review Land Rovers, chassis 5710-2615 of 1954: a Series I with the smooth-sided open review body and chrome grab rails built to the specification of the 1953–54 Commonwealth Tour…
United Kingdom
101 Forward Control · 1975 West–East Sahara crossing · 60 FL 38
1975One of the four early-production 101 Forward Controls of the 1975 Joint Services West–East Sahara Expedition, which made the first west-to-east crossing of the Sahara — 7,500 miles from the Atlantic to the Red Sea in…
United Kingdom
Defender
2015–20Kahn Design's Flying Huntsman 110 6×6 double-cab pickup: a Defender 110 with its chassis extended 400 mm and a third axle added for switchable six-wheel drive, wide-arch bodywork, an X-Lander grille and a 430 bhp GM…
Kahn Design / Chelsea Truck Company United Kingdom
Rover Company prototype · 2.5 turbo-diesel · FYF 928C
1963'Lofty', chassis 129/5, FYF 928C: the fifth of the six 129-inch 30 cwt prototype trucks Rover built between 1959 and 1963 to take on the Dodge Power Wagon in the Middle East oilfields — a Series III-style truck cab…
United Kingdom
Defender
2012The Dunsfold Collection's Wolf 110 R+WMIK, R985 NUF: a 2012 replica built from three damaged prototypes of the final stage of the WMIK programme — the R-WMIK's V-hull and ring mount plus armoured floor and side…
Ricardo plc United Kingdom
Defender
19905460 XZ, the 1990 Defender 90 that Land Rover sent to Marshalls of Cambridge for conversion to a 106 mm recoilless-rifle gunship as a worldwide demonstrator: an open 90 with its door tops and roof removed and two…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Series IIA
1963–85RUC in-house armoured Land Rover of the kind developed by the force's own Research and Development Establishment — the 1962–64 prototype line that became the Shorland, and later the experimental Shenzi and Simba of…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Defender
1985Fully armoured 3.5-litre V8 Land Rover 110 of the Ministry of Defence Police Special Escort Group, fleet number 3262: delivered early in 1985 and converted by that July to escort road convoys carrying nuclear weapon…
United Kingdom
Defender
2012North Yorkshire Police Rural Task Force Defender 90 hard top YG12 VNW, a silver Police Support vehicle in blue and yellow battenburg used for farm, moorland and off-road rural patrol work across England's largest…
United Kingdom
Series III
19781978 Series III 109 hard top riot van YYX 315T built for South Yorkshire Police public-order duty — dark navy with a mesh guard over the windscreen, blue lamps beside the grille and a bonnet spot lamp — now preserved…
United Kingdom
Defender
2021Hobson Industries' armoured public-order Land Rover prototype, PAZ 4792, offered to the Police Service of Northern Ireland as a replacement for the Tangi and trialled on Belfast parades but not selected for series…
United Kingdom
Defender
2024Defender 110 hard top of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces Military Police (Polis Tentera), MOD 2233, in olive-brown with a red and blue light bar, POLIS TENTERA lettering and the MP crest, shown on parade at the force's…
United Kingdom
Santana Series (88/109)
1975–85Dark-green Santana-built Series III 88-inch hard top carrying Patrulla Rural door markings, a single blue rotating beacon, siren and radiophone, used to motorise Guardia Civil posts in the remotest parts of Spain.
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 2000 FC
1978–90Special Santana 2000 forward-control vehicles of the Guardia Civil fitted with box bodies, armoured side doors and full-length bench seats so that crews could return fire on terrorist attacks while the vehicle was…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 1300
1973–80Santana 1300 forward-control truck of the Guardia Civil, in the dark green of the force's Agrupación de Tráfico with a canvas tilt, roof sign and blue beacon — one of almost the whole Santana range bought to motorise…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Series III
1970–88An RUC Hotspur armoured Land Rover, IXI 8636: a Stage 1 V8-powered Series III 109 hard top armoured in the Royal Ulster Constabulary's own workshops with the Hotspur kit — bolted ballistic steel plates over the sides…
Hotspur Armoured Products, RUC Vehicle Engineering, Seapark United Kingdom
Defender
1999The RAF Regiment's TUM Enhanced Protection Vehicle: a Courtaulds/NP Aerospace CAV 100 composite-armoured Defender 110 like the Army's Snatch but bought new around 1999 outside the original 991-vehicle batch…
NP Aerospace United Kingdom
Defender
2007Snatch 2 Vixen Plus, 25 KK 56: the further-developed Vixen Plus standard of the CAV 100 composite-armoured Defender 110 protected patrol vehicle, photographed at an MoD UOR day on Salisbury Plain in desert sand under…
NP Aerospace United Kingdom
Perentie
1988–92Perentie 6x6 Logistics Vehicle built by Jaguar Rover Australia for the Government of Oman: an open-cab, roll-caged 6x6 with a long dropside cargo tray in desert pink, one of eleven Oman vehicles among the only…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Series III
1968–75Royal Artillery Portable Photographic Interpretation Facility (PPIF) Land Rover 25 FG 73: a Series IIA 109 with a tall box body carried forward into a square, mesh-fronted Luton over the cab and equipment boxes on…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1965–75Australian Army Emergency Repair Vehicle (ERV) built on the Series 2A/3 'Bloodbox' ambulance body: the Pressed Metal Corporation coachwork stripped of its red crosses and repainted a muted grey-green, with a Series…
Pressed Metal Corporation Australia
Perentie
1987–93Australian Army Perentie 4x4 soft top in United Nations white with the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), photographed at Kampong Cham in April 1993 (Australian War Memorial P01724.061): canvas tilt with…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Series IIA
1966Australian Army Series 2A 109 'pie cart' workshop Land Rover, ARN 113852, in United Nations white as used by RAEME's 17 Construction Squadron workshop with the UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) in Namibia in…
Australia
Defender
1990–91British Army Pulse 130 ambulance H115 BAU in United Nations white with SFOR markings, as used with the NATO-led Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina: UN and SFOR on the box front, red crosses on the sides…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Defender
2004–09Żandarmeria Wojskowa (Polish Military Police) Defender 110 station wagon in United Nations white, the hard-bodied sister of the soft-top patrol vehicles the Polish contingents (PKW) ran with UNIFIL in Lebanon and…
United Kingdom
Defender
2004–09Żandarmeria Wojskowa (Polish Military Police) Defender 110 soft top in United Nations white, used by the Polish military contingents (PKW) with UNIFIL in Lebanon and UNDOF on the Golan, photographed on a low-loader…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
19631963 Australian Army Series 2A 109-inch 'Bloodbox' ambulance preserved in white United Nations livery at the Army Museum Bandiana, Victoria, representing the Australian medical vehicles that served with UN missions…
Pressed Metal Corporation Australia
Perentie
1987–93Australian Army Perentie 4x4 of the UNTAC Force Communications Unit in United Nations white at Sisophon, Cambodia, August 1993 (Australian War Memorial P02570.013): canvas cab top with the tray open and a restored…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Defender
2007–11UNAMID Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon, fleet number 32252, a medical vehicle of the African Union–United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur photographed at the mission's Nyala base in South Darfur in November…
United Kingdom
Defender
1995–2010Brazilian Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais) Land Rover Defender 90 soft top in United Nations white, run with its doors removed by the Brazilian battalion of MINUSTAH in Haiti for checkpoint and patrol…
United Kingdom
Series I
1954–57Series I 88 soft top of the first United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF I), one of the Land Rovers that entered the Gaza Strip with the mixed UN convoy of Willys jeeps and station wagons in April 1957: white body…
United Kingdom
Series II
1958–61Danish Army 12-volt Land Rover Series II 109 soft top of the Danish contingent (DANCON) with the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus in the mid-1960s, before British-leased Lightweights replaced the Danish-owned Land…
United Kingdom
Defender
1996South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade's coast rescue Land Rover, a Defender 130 double cab with a purpose-built equipment box body built by Land Rover Special Vehicles in 1996 and described as the only vehicle of its…
United Kingdom
Defender
1992–93British Army CAV 100 'Snatch' armoured Land Rover repainted United Nations white for UNPROFOR service in Bosnia in 1993, photographed by Joint Forces with UN on the bonnet and body, mesh guards over the lamps, grille…
United Kingdom
Defender
1992An ex-military CAV 100 Snatch armoured Land Rover sold commercially to a news organisation and run as a protected press vehicle in Macedonia at the height of the 2001 insurgency: the composite-armoured Defender 110…
NP Aerospace United Kingdom
Series II
1968Trillo's of Whitby 1968 Land Rover Series II 109 ice cream van, MBT 984F: a tall cream coachbuilt body on the Series II chassis with a sign peak reading Trillo Brothers, big sliding serving windows and a blue waist…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1971The Hemsby Beach Land Rover ice cream van FVG 31J: a 1971 Series IIA 109 with a tall box ice cream body behind its standard cab, serving hatch and menu boards on the side and Rossi Super Ice Cream signs, photographed…
United Kingdom
Series III
1974Rossi's Ice Cream of Hemsby's 1974 four-cylinder Land Rover Series III 109, UPJ 934M, fitted with a tall ice cream van body: white with a pink bonnet, grille surround, arches and stripes and Rossi's / Whippy Ice…
United Kingdom
Defender
1985The Pembrokeshire Ice Cream Co.'s 1985-86 Land Rover 110 ice cream van, C714 MNT — previously run by Kelly's Ices of Cornwall, where it featured in a 2012 Land Rover calendar — a One Ten with a cream rounded…
United Kingdom
Defender
1990A 1990 Land Rover Defender 110, G461 BJO, carrying a Mr Whippy soft-serve ice cream body: a tall box behind the standard cab, light blue over cream with ice cream and mr whippy lettering, a serving window on the…
United Kingdom
Defender
One of the two Land Rover Defender ice cream vans that Hockings Dairy Cream Ices of Appledore, North Devon, keep within their nineteen-vehicle fleet for beach pitches and events in muddy fields where the firm's…
United Kingdom
Defender
2011Teddy's Fish & Chips' converted Land Rover Defender 130, FG11 GDV: a British racing green single-cab with a square catering box body, serving hatch and lift-up awning, from which the Bournemouth family firm cooks and…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1971One of Rossi Ice Cream's vintage Land Rover 109 ice cream vans from Hemsby, registration read as AVG 31J, photographed trading at Winterton-on-Sea in August 2011 in hot pink and cream with a ROSSI SUPER ICE CREAM…
United Kingdom
Defender
2011Thatchers Cider's promotional Land Rover Defender, C12 VAT: a 2.4-litre Puma Defender 110 single-cab pickup new in October 2011, in cream with a giant oak cider cask lying in its tub under a THATCHERS board, a roof…
United Kingdom
Series III
1971–85Royal Air Force Series III 109-inch hard top fitted with a roof-mounted helicopter servicing platform and a starting-cable reel on the side of the body, photographed in desert sand during the 1991 Gulf deployment and…
United Kingdom
Defender
1997Pizza Overland's Defender 110 hard top, R729 JUB, converted into a mobile pizzeria with a commercial-grade wood-fired stone oven that cooks several pizzas at once, offered for sale from Merseyside as a going concern…
United Kingdom
Defender
2010sThe Land Doughver's specially converted Defender 110 hard top, nicknamed Chi-Chi, carrying a near one-tonne stone pizza oven that runs at 450 °C on kiln-dried ash and cooks two or three pizzas in 90 seconds, run by a…
United Kingdom
Defender
2016Defender 110 hard top kept by Greene King brewery at Bury St Edmunds as a promotional vehicle and mobile bar for its Ice Breaker pale ale, wrapped in ice-blue with ICE BREAKER lettering, photographed at the brewery…
United Kingdom
Defender
2018Ex-army Defender 110 hard top converted into a mobile bar, its side panel lifting as an awning over a teal-lined counter with beer taps and chalkboard menus, photographed serving at the St Monans Sea Queen gala day…
United Kingdom
Defender
2002The Wild Oven's bespoke Land Rover Defender 110 wood-fired kitchen from Stratford-upon-Avon — a truck cab carrying a timber-clad, steel-framed box with the oven inside, catering events of 10 to 300 people from a 4.5…
United Kingdom
Series III
1971–2015The 'Beer Landy': a Land Rover Series III 109 hard top converted into a mobile bar in Jever bottle green, with a stainless winch bumper, spare and wooden slats on the bonnet, a chequer-plate roof rack with spot lamps…
Germany
Defender
1984St John Ambulance's preserved Land Rover One Ten box-body ambulance B183 LBJ: a 1984-85 One Ten (the first of the coil-sprung line that became the Defender) with a square coachbuilt ambulance body and Luton peak, in…
United Kingdom
Defender
2011The Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit's Defender 110 station wagon BX61 EFC: an unmarked silver 2011 Puma-era Defender with a Warn winch in the front bumper and a single blue beacon on the roof, used on the…
United Kingdom
Defender
2000sStaffordshire Police's black armoured Land Rover Defender 110 for specialist operations: a heavily modified 110 with composite armour over the body, a square window each side, louvred lockers, a cage roof rack, twin…
United Kingdom
Defender
2012Penman Engineering's Armoured Land Rover Mk.4 for the Police Service of Northern Ireland: thirty public-order armoured Land Rovers built from 2012 on the Defender 110 Puma chassis, seating a crew of six, after Penman…
Penman Engineering United Kingdom
Defender
1992OVIK Solutions' armoured police demonstrator K414 SHR: an ex-Ministry of Defence Land Rover Defender 110 with low military mileage rebuilt by OVIK into a heavily armoured public-order vehicle in plain black, shown at…
OVIK United Kingdom
Series I
1954–58The old appliance of the Uskela volunteer fire brigade in Salo, Finland: a long-wheelbase Series I Land Rover with S39 markings and suction hoses carried on the bonnet, preserved by the brigade and photographed in 2007.
United Kingdom
Defender
1989–90G478 GJC, the Bangor-based Water Incident Unit of North Wales Fire and Rescue Service: a red Defender 110 with a snorkel, twin roof beacons and horns, grille lights and a black rescue inflatable — the vehicle that…
United Kingdom
Defender
2005–06RNLI West Kirby's Land Rover Defender 110 HG55 NHM, fleet number LR83, fitted with Mattracks rubber track units in place of its wheels so the Wirral station can launch and recover its D-class inshore lifeboat across…
United Kingdom
Series III
1979–80HM Coastguard Fleetwood's Series III 88-inch station wagon FHV 880V, the Morecambe Bay shoreline rescue vehicle photographed on the Fleetwood promenade in the winter of 1981: dark blue with a roof rack carrying spot…
United Kingdom
Defender
2014–15HM Coastguard search and rescue Land Rover Defender 130 double cab in the Coastguard's current livery — white with a yellow bonnet and roof, yellow-and-blue battenburg, COAST GUARD on the doors and a SEARCH AND…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1963North Wollongong Surf Life Saving Club's Series IIA 88-inch hard top, bought new in March 1963 and signwritten NORTH WOLLONGONG S.L.S.C. as the club's beach patrol and equipment vehicle, photographed with club…
United Kingdom
Defender
1992NSRI Station 19 Richards Bay's Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon NRB 4334, a South African-built 1992 Camel Trophy standby vehicle donated to Sea Rescue in place of a Ford F250 and used for nineteen years to…
South Africa
Defender
1998–99Sefton Council Beach Patrol and Lifeguard Unit Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon S380 ADB, yellow with a full-length roof rack, amber RANGER light bar, snorkel and an orange rescue board, photographed on Waterloo…
United Kingdom
Defender
2008Severn Area Rescue Association's 2008 Land Rover Defender 110 WX08 LLM, the charity's lifeboat-towing rescue vehicle in dark grey with red and yellow battenburg, SARA panels, roof rack and AMBULANCE light bar…
United Kingdom
Defender
1990–98Olive-green Land Rover Defender 110 soft top 6146 VG 80 of Les Sauveteurs en Mer (SNSM), a French lifeboat station's shore and boat-handling vehicle with an external roll cage, mesh bull bar, blue beacon and…
United Kingdom
Defender
1990–2006Yellow Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon of Wirral Council's beach lifeguards at West Kirby, fleet number 1984, with red WIRRAL and BEACH LIFEGUARD lettering, yellow steel wheels, an amber light bar and a VHF…
United Kingdom
Series I
1949KLX 770, the 1949 Series I 80-inch soft top that was the Automobile Association's first Land Rover, bought for the London Night Patrols at Bayham Street, Camden Town, in AA yellow with black wing sides, a ROAD…
United Kingdom
Series I
1956–58AA Scottish Highland Patrol Land Rover Series I 88-inch TLE 883: golden yellow truck cab with khaki canvas tilt, black-masked front wings, bonnet spare and a HIGHLAND PATROL roof board, one of the Land Rovers that by…
United Kingdom
Series I
1954–58AA Road Service Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top PYU 15 in the association's yellow with a black roof and black front wing sides, AA badges on the wings and hard-top sides and ROAD SERVICE lettering — one of the…
United Kingdom
Defender
2003AA Special Operations Response Team Land Rover Defender 110 hard top AK53 TXJ: yellow and black with a snorkel, winch, amber light bar, rear hi-vis chevrons and a red Special Operations Response Team panel, used for…
United Kingdom
Series III
1976AA Series III 109-inch station wagon of 1976 in all-over AA yellow with the AA Relay logo, roof rack and AA Service beacon board — the tow-pole recovery Land Rovers the Automobile Association ran from its depots…
United Kingdom
Series II
1959–60RAC Radio Patrol Mobile Service Unit Land Rover Series II 109-inch hard top YYF 365 in RAC blue with a white RADIO PATROL roof board and amber beacon — one of the units the Royal Automobile Club formed in 1959 for…
United Kingdom
Series I
1950–53RAC Road Service Land Rover Series I 80-inch hard top KAD 265 in the Club's blue Road Service scheme with a bumper spotlight and TOWING sign — one of the Royal Automobile Club's first four-wheeled road patrol…
United Kingdom
Series I
1956–58Late-1950s RAC road service Land Rover Series I 109-inch truck cab with a black canvas tilt, in RAC blue with ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB lettering and the Club's diamond — a long-wheelbase patrol vehicle able to carry…
United Kingdom
Defender
1989–90Maryport Inshore Rescue's Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon G693 NHH, one of the independent Cumbrian lifeboat service's pair of response vehicles, in dark teal-blue with a white roof, orange waist stripe…
United Kingdom
Defender
2010Maryport Inshore Rescue's Land Rover Defender 90 hard top PX60 UAB, the second of the independent Cumbrian lifeboat service's pair of response vehicles, in dark teal-blue with a white roof, orange waist stripe, light…
United Kingdom
Series III
1983–84Early-1980s HM Coastguard Land Rover Series III 88 hard top A259 SYM in dark blue with a yellow roof carrying H.M. COASTGUARD, MARINE RESCUE on the sides, roof spot lamps, a bonnet spare and a bumper winch…
United Kingdom
Series I
1957KYL 88D, a 1957 Land Rover Series I 88 released by the Ministry of Defence in 1966 and re-registered for HM Coastguard, preserved in bronze green with its grey canvas tilt, bumper capstan winch, bonnet spare and…
United Kingdom
Defender
2012Police Scotland Underwater Search Unit Land Rover Defender 110 hard top SN12 CHZ, the dive and water-rescue team's white battenburg-liveried vehicle based alongside the Coastguard at Greenock fire station on the…
United Kingdom
Defender
1998Louth Civil Defence's fire and flood response Land Rover, 98-WW-5593 — a white Defender 130 double cab with a box body, blue-and-orange waist stripe, Civil Defence roundels, roof rack with blue light bar, snorkel…
United Kingdom
Series III
1981–82HM Coastguard Land Rover Series III 88 station wagon KYU 893X of 1981/82 in marine blue with a yellow roof lettered HM COASTGUARD, a blue beacon and two spot lamps, silver waist line and MARINE RESCUE on the sides —…
United Kingdom
Series III
1977–78Preserved HM Coastguard cliff-rescue Land Rover Series III 88 TYO 286S in navy with a yellow roof and bonnet, yellow-and-black chequer along the body, a blue light bar and spot lamps on the roof and a covered spare…
United Kingdom
Series III
1971–85Red-and-white Land Rover Series III 109-inch truck cab working as an independent breakdown truck around Casablanca, with a chrome bull bar and blue spot lamps, orange roof beacons and a bed-mounted recovery hoop…
United Kingdom
Defender
1990–2006Red Land Rover Defender 110 truck cab converted into a wheel-lift recovery truck by an independent Dhaka operator — chequer band, '24 hrs Recovery Vehicle' and phone-number signage, basket roof rack with amber light…
United Kingdom
Defender
1990–2006Blue Land Rover Defender 90 truck cab No. 84 of the Borneo 4WD recovery team at the 2009 Borneo Safari, with an external roll cage, snorkel, winch, white steel wheels on mud tyres and a bed of lashed-down recovery…
United Kingdom
Series III
1977–78THM 834S, a 1977/78 Land Rover Series III breakdown and recovery truck preserved in the period trim of ST Engineering of West Sussex — white 88-inch pickup with a blue roll hoop and TOWING board, blue rear crane…
United Kingdom
Series I
1954HCL 164, a 1954 Land Rover Series I 107-inch pickup built as the breakdown and recovery truck of Steels of Cheltenham, the town's Wolseley and Rover dealer, still carrying its recovery crane, towing-dolly wheels and…
United Kingdom
Defender
1998–2004Bender City Abschlepp- und Bergungsdienst of Düsseldorf's Land Rover Defender 90 converted into a compact tow truck with a rear underlift — fleet number 12, white with 'downtown' script, chequer-plate body and amber…
Germany
Series II
1958–61Everyman's Garage of Chichester's sky-blue Land Rover recovery fleet, which has retrieved crashed and broken-down cars and bikes at the Goodwood Revival since the event began — modelled on the lead truck of the three…
Harvey Frost & Co. United Kingdom
Series IIA
1968VPB 28F, a 1968 Land Rover Series IIA 109 recovery truck (chassis 25114123D) owned from new by Clacy & Sons Garage of Whitchurch, Hampshire, with an extended cab, Harvey Frost hand crane, front winch, bonnet spare…
Harvey Frost & Co. United Kingdom
Series IIA
1966HFW 370D, a 1966 Land Rover Series IIA 109-inch 2.25 petrol built as a garage recovery truck from new with a Harvey Frost 3cwt pick-up crane on the bed, restored on a galvanised chassis in Rick's Salvage of…
Harvey Frost & Co. United Kingdom
Series IIA
1967HUF 999E, Brighton Fire Brigade's 1967 Land Rover Series IIA 109 with HCB-Angus rear bodywork — 300 gph pump, 60-gallon tank, capstan winch and twin roller-shutter hose lockers — the brigade's restricted-access…
HCB-Angus United Kingdom
Defender
2002–03Reddingsbrigade Nederland lifeguard Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon RB 170, registration 75-LX-DZ, in the Dutch lifeguards' orange with blue-and-white diagonal striping, a blue light bar and amber beacon…
United Kingdom
Defender
2005HG55 GUA, the Seahouses lifeboat station's Defender 110 — RNLI navy with a front winch, blue lights and an orange inshore rescue boat on its trailer — used to launch the station's IRB down the Northumberland beach.
United Kingdom
Defender
1999The Aquarius R2R 4×4: a Defender 130 double cab with Aquarius Railroad Technologies' electro-hydraulic rail gear — push-button from the cab — that puts it on the track at 20 mph carrying up to eleven people or 1,450…
Aquarius Railroad Technologies United Kingdom
Defender
1998A WMIK in Royal Marines hands: the Wolf-based weapons platform in sand finish, with the commander's pintle-mounted GPMG at the front, the gunner's ring at the rear for a .50 HMG, 40 mm GMG or a second GPMG, a…
Ricardo plc United Kingdom
Defender
1998–2002Netherlands Marine Corps (Korps Mariniers) Land Rover Defender 110 Wolf soft top, KM-25-25, one of the Dutch marines' Wolf fleet photographed by Joint Forces: olive with a canvas tilt, spare on the bonnet, snorkel…
United Kingdom
Defender
1996–98A Wolf 110 soft top Fitted For Radio: the NATO-green TUM with a 24-volt second alternator to power a signals fit, here following the Bowman-equipped Royal Signals configuration — the vehicle that carried a…
United Kingdom
Defender
2000–17Civilian-specification Defender 110 station wagons taken into Finnish Defence Forces service, photographed with the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force in dark green with FRDF lettering on the doors, roof racks and…
United Kingdom
Defender
2005Second, partially militarised batch of Td5 Defender 110 station wagons acquired by the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force about 2005: Fitted For Radio communications vehicles with integrated bumper winches, bull bars…
United Kingdom
Defender
2004–07Soft-top version of the Polish Military Police's mid-2000s Defender 110 Td5 'samochód interwencyjny' batch — about 140 vehicles converted by TEAM Marek Pasierbski of Wrocław with winch, jerrycan racks and light bar —…
United Kingdom, Poland
Defender
2018Defender 110 station wagon of Poland's Żandarmeria Wojskowa (Military Police), one of the MP vehicles that deployed with the British-led multinational brigade on NATO exercise Trident Juncture 2018 in Norway, with a…
United Kingdom
Defender
1997Aselsan's Zipkin pedestal-mounted air defence system on a Land Rover Defender: a turret with two four-round FIM-92 Stinger pods, a 12.7 mm machine gun and an electro-optical sensor head on a camouflaged Defender 130…
Turkey
Defender
1984–90KILCAR, the Land Rover One Ten soft top of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars' REME Light Aid Detachment on Operation GRANBY in 1991, with bumper recovery winch and GPMG mount, in in-theatre stone paint with thinned RAF…
United Kingdom
Defender
1985–90Royal Navy Commando Helicopter Operations Support Cell 127-inch unit ambulance 10 KJ 65 on Operation GRANBY, in tiger-stripe camouflage applied near Yeovilton and carrying Red Crescent and Red Cross markings —…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Defender
20082008 Ford Duratorq Defender 130 double cab carrying a Quadtech shelter body with roof rack, raised intake, winch and brush guard, operated by a specialist Slovak Army CBRN team on NATO operations and shown at IDEB…
United Kingdom
Defender
1996–98British Army Land Rover Wolf TUM HS 110 in the Fitted For Radio hard-top form: a 24-volt installation with a second alternator to run Clansman and later Bowman signals equipment, with snorkel, headlamp guards, side…
United Kingdom
Defender
1996The short-wheelbase Wolf built to be flown: a Defender 90 Wolf TUL with canvas tilt, lifting fittings and a high side-mounted spare, designed to be slung beneath a helicopter for delivery to places without roads —…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1967The Post Office's cabling winch on wheels: the Land Rover Station Wagon Type 3, an 88-inch Safari-bodied car with a 2,500 lb capstan winch on the front and a 4,000 lb bull winch where the passenger seat used to be —…
Post Office Telecommunications United Kingdom
Series III
1981–85White 127-inch Stage 1 V8 Land Rover that superseded ASSAR's blue 109 in the early 1980s as Avon and Somerset Constabulary's cliff-rescue winch vehicle, modified with wider-offset wheel rims and 110 wheel-arch…
United Kingdom
Series III
1979–85V8 petrol Series III 109 hard top van built for the British Gas Board with a pump-up telescopic mast on the rear body, given to Avon & Somerset Search and Rescue in the mid 1980s and repainted vivid canary yellow…
United Kingdom
Defender
2009–10British Telecom's Defender 110 Tactical Command Unit, BX59 DLE: a white utility wagon in yellow and orange battenburg carrying a roof-mounted satellite dish, radome, masts and equipment pods so that BT engineers can…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
196830cwt petrol Series IIB Forward Control fitted with a Simon Hoist M28 elevating platform, WLA 990G, one of a fifteen-vehicle Post Office batch of 1968, photographed as a training unit at the GPO Regional Training…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1969–71The Searle estate wagon — Carawagon International's luxury estate and station wagon conversion of the late Series IIA 109, offered in 1970 as a Land Rover 'special approved' vehicle with a trimmed interior, extra…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Defender
1994–97The North American Specification Defender 90, sold in the United States and Canada from 1994 with the 3.9-litre V8 and, for 1997, the 4.0-litre V8 with automatic gearbox — a soft top (later also station wagon) with a…
United Kingdom
Defender
1995–2010The Defender 147 — a South African seven-door estate conversion of the 110 station wagon stretched by 37 inches to seat eleven, built in small numbers for safari lodges, mines and large families and occasionally…
South Africa
Series I
1955–58Factory metal-bodied Series I 107-inch station wagon from 1955 with the double-skinned Tropical Roof — a second aluminium roof panel carried on spacers over the main roof with ventilators at its edges, to keep the…
United Kingdom
Series III
1977–78Land Rover Australia's GAME, the upmarket short-wheelbase Series III of the mid-1970s with fifteen-inch white spoke wheels, black wheel-arch flares, a deluxe interior and the Yellow Devil colour scheme of yellow…
Australia
Defender
1993The North American Specification Defender 110 of 1993: a batch of 525 Alpine White station wagons heavily modified to meet US and Canadian regulations, with the 3.9-litre V8, a full external roll cage, brush bar…
United Kingdom
Series II
1963A single General Post Office Land Rover Series II 109 pickup fitted by USi Burtonwood with a hydraulic tail lift for loading heavy telephone plant: fleet number 18909, registered 965 FXY, delivered in October 1963…
USi (Burtonwood) United Kingdom
Series I
1950–57The first Post Office Land Rover: the Type 1 (Phase 1), an 80-inch Series I hardtop bought from 1950 for engineers who had to reach key stations whatever the ground was doing — LUU 990 of June 1951 is the documented…
United Kingdom
Series III
1976–77A Post Office telephones Series III 88-inch on four triangular caterpillar track units — the Snowtrac conversion, registered MAS 461R and photographed in 1985 — for reaching lines and stations through snow a wheeled…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1966–71A 30 cwt Land Rover Forward Control carrying a Yeading-built television outside-broadcast video unit for the Post Office, photographed in January 1971 — a mobile link vehicle for the Post Office's television…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1970–71A Land Rover Forward Control chassis cab turned into an articulated tractor unit, EMF 739J, hauling a single-axle step-frame box-van trailer for Post Office Telecommunications Development — a way of taking a…
Post Office Telecommunications United Kingdom
Series IIA
1968The Post Office's cable-fault laboratory on a Land Rover Forward Control: test van SGW 433F, fleet number 292689, of 1968, with its own integral power supply and a duct television rig — camera control, video control…
Post Office Telecommunications United Kingdom
Series IIA
1971Platform Elevating No. 3 Mk III: a 30 cwt Land Rover Forward Control carrying a Spencer HM28 hydraulic platform with a working height of 29 feet, an outreach of 13 ft 6 in, an 8 hp Kohler auxiliary engine for the…
United Kingdom
Defender
1997"Goldilocks": a 1997 Defender Wolf 110, R657 BAC, built for Sir Ranulph Fiennes' cancelled 1998 global expedition and then repainted gold as the support vehicle for the Fifty 50 Challenge — Land Rover employees'…
United Kingdom
Series II
1959Brian Bashall's 1959 Series II 88-inch, VAA 999, rebuilt in 1970 into an off-road competition car for the first Hillrallies of 1971 — roll cage, heavy-duty springs, waterproofed engine, knobbly tyres and a repaint in…
Brian Bashall United Kingdom
Defender
2009The odd one out of the French Defender fleet: a four-door Defender 110 Double Cab pick-up in NATO green with a short canvas load-bed cover, lamp guards and front underbody protection — photographed with the French…
Durisotti United Kingdom, France
Defender
2013French Army Durisotti Defender 130 ambulance, photographed on exercise Joint Warrior 2013 in Scotland: the long-wheelbase medical counterpart of Durisotti's Defender 110 station wagon conversions for the French armed…
Durisotti France
Defender
2007French Army 6072-series Defender 110 station wagon convoy escort: model-year 2007 Puma-engined station wagons fitted out with fold-down CONVOI EXCEPTIONNEL boards, three orange roof beacons, hatched reflective…
United Kingdom
Defender
2005The Czech Military Police's discreetly armoured Defender 110 hard top (Mk.1), shown at IDET 2005 in Brno: outwardly a standard olive Vojenská policie hard top, given away only by four blue roof beacons, STOP lights…
SVOS spol. s r.o. United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Defender
2008Czech Army armoured Defender 110 Mk.2 of the 63-strong NBC battalion contingent that guarded FOB Hadrian with Task Force Uruzgan from October 2008: the second batch of Czech armoured Defenders, with a removable rear…
SVOS spol. s r.o. Czech Republic
Defender
1995Czech airborne battalion Defender 110 windowed hard top command and communications vehicle: partially militarised 24-volt 300Tdi hard tops with substantial roof racks carrying antenna mounts, a wing antenna mount…
Czech Republic
Defender
1995Czech Army Defender 90 300Tdi station wagon used as a staff vehicle, photographed at Wędrzyn in Poland on exercise STRONG RESOLVE 2002 with a white O stencilled on its doors marking it as an observer: NATO IRR green…
Czech Republic
Defender
1983–90An RAF Mobile Air Operations Team Land Rover One Ten hard top at the 4th Armoured Brigade forward headquarters during Operation GRANBY, January 1991 — desert camouflage over the standard hard top, spare on the…
United Kingdom
Defender
2009A Sofia police Defender 110 hard top in the Bulgarian police white and green, registered CA 7993 AK, with ПОЛИЦИЯ along the sides, POLICE on the rear door beneath the spare, opaque rear-quarter panels and blue…
United Kingdom
Defender
2007–11A Bulgarian Border Police Defender 110 station wagon in grey-green with ГРАНИЧНА ПОЛИЦИЯ identification panels on the doors, a blue roof lightbar and the European Union emblem on the rear quarter — the mark of the…
United Kingdom
Defender
1998–2006A Defender 90 Td5 station wagon of San Marino's Polizia Civile: white with the force's red waist band and sill stripe, POLIZIA CIVILE and the Republic's arms on the doors, the emergency number 115 on the rear quarter…
United Kingdom
Defender
2007–09The municipal police Defender 90 of Livigno, the duty-free Alpine town in Lombardy: a white station wagon with the green POLIZIA LOCALE band and COMUNE di LIVIGNO lettering of Italian local police, blue roof beacons…
United Kingdom
Series I
1951–53An 80-inch Series I of the Belgian gendarmerie, finished in the force's Blue Piletta with painted coats of arms, a mast-mounted flashing blue light, a spotlight, a jerry can, a police radio and a door-mounted medical…
Minerva United Kingdom, Belgium
Defender
2012Guernsey Police's armoured Defender 110 — a dark blue protected patrol vehicle with shielded glazing, an elevated roof equipment rack and heavy front protection, bought in 2012 for about £180,000 to reach casualties…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1969A 1969 Land Rover 109 pickup of the New South Wales Bush Fire Brigade — the volunteer service that became the NSW Rural Fire Service — with a flat metal tray carrying slip-on firefighting equipment, white side…
United Kingdom, Australia
Series II
1960A 1960 Land Rover 109 fire truck of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, with firefighting equipment by Firefly of London — curved body sides and an exposed rear pump — that protected the camps and works of…
Angus Fire Armour United Kingdom
Defender
1990–2010All-purpose Defender 110 Tdi (véhicule tout usage) of the Forestiers-Sapeurs de Corse-du-Sud at Ajaccio — the departmental forest workers' fire corps — a yellow double-cab pickup with a canvas tilt and a Hella KL7000…
United Kingdom
Defender
2012Brandweer Kalmthout's Defender 130 double-cab pickup K11 (1-DSY-925), built by AB Technics in 2012 for the volunteer brigade whose heathland reserve on the Dutch border is Belgium's most fire-prone terrain — a…
United Kingdom, Belgium
Defender
2014Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association's Defender 110 utility wagon Fell 2, YJ64 BRF, the sister of Fell 1 in the same orange and white mountain rescue ambulance livery, with small blue lamps in the grille, winch…
United Kingdom
Defender
2009–10Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association's Defender 110 utility wagon Fell 1, PO59 ODU, an orange and white mountain rescue ambulance with red and white chequer, a roof rack of stretcher and rescue kit, winch bumper…
United Kingdom
Defender
2009–10Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team's Defender 110 station wagon PX09 DNF, a silver-grey rescue ambulance with a fluorescent yellow front and screen frame, red and white chequer, winch bumper and roof rack…
United Kingdom
Defender
2014Teesdale and Weardale Search and Mountain Rescue Team's Defender 110 station wagon NX14 GKO, stationed at Durham fire station alongside sister vehicle NK53 TYA at Barnard Castle, a white rescue ambulance with a…
United Kingdom
Series III
1971–72Preserved Lomas-bodied Land Rover 109 ambulance HUY 944K in Worcestershire Ambulance Service livery — a coachbuilt Series Land Rover run by a county NHS ambulance service for rough-terrain calls, shown at the NEC…
Herbert Lomas Ltd United Kingdom
Series III
1979–83Royal Australian Navy Series III Stage 1 V8 utilities carrying a fire pallet in the tub, on Sunraysia rims and sand tyres for beach clearance work at Beecroft Range around 1983 — two vehicles, ZWD-177 and ZND-559…
United Kingdom
Defender
1992Land Rover Defender 127 box-body ambulance K189 JRR operated by Cobalt Rescue as a motorsport rescue ambulance, with an orange bonnet carrying the spare and four spot lamps, winch bumper, blue and yellow stripes and…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Defender
2002Land Rover Defender 110 truck cab operated by Helicopter and Aviation Services as an airfield and event fire vehicle, in fluorescent yellow with red battenburg, a blue light bar and a portable pump and rescue kit in…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1969–70Land Rover UPM 349H of East Sussex Fire Brigade, a 1970 Series IIA 109 with HCB-Angus bodywork, sister to the Uckfield L4P UPM 350H, stationed at Haywards Heath as a light rescue tender and in later life converted…
HCB-Angus United Kingdom
Defender
2001Defender 110 station wagon Y639 TUK liveried as Dorset Search and Rescue but never part of the team's fleet: used by a civilian international major-incident adviser assisting Dorset Police and the MOD on a…
United Kingdom
Defender
2012Border Search and Rescue Unit's Defender 110 station wagon SN12 DSZ, named REIVER: a white mountain rescue Land Rover with a fluorescent waist stripe and team badge, a RESCUE light bar and spot lamps on a roof rack…
United Kingdom
Series III
1971–85Royal Navy Series III 109 fire and rescue Land Rover Q877 OBP from RNAS Portland, a red truck cab with a locker body of rescue gear, ladders on the roof and a barred grille guard, one of the small Series III fire…
United Kingdom
Defender
1997Freiwillige Feuerwehr Windischgarsten's KLF-A, a 1997 Defender 110 rebuilt as a Kleinlöschfahrzeug-Allrad carrying 480 metres of pre-coupled B hose in three sections for rapid hose-line laying, comprehensively…
United Kingdom, Austria
Defender
2010sLand Rover Defender 90 station wagon in Bombeiros Voluntários de Leiria livery serving as a Comando (command) car directing forest-fire and road-accident operations in central Portugal.
United Kingdom
Defender
1990–2007Defender 90 Tdi command car of the Comando Provinciale Vigili del Fuoco at Agrigento, Sicily — one of three Defenders the professional brigade uses as command and liaison vehicles for rural and coastal incidents, in…
United Kingdom
Series III
1971–85Series III 109-inch station wagon with a Rosenbauer-built Kleinlöschfahrzeug fit, operated as KLFA 120 by the volunteer fire brigade of Zell am Moos in Upper Austria and now privately preserved on historic plates.
United Kingdom, Austria
Defender
2011Coniston Mountain Rescue Team's 2011 Defender 110 stretcher carriers, Mobiles 1 and 3: utility wagons with folding steel frames that drop to take a loaded stretcher plus five team members, full internal and external…
United Kingdom
Defender
2010Bolton Mountain Rescue Team's Defender 110 PX60 EAE, one of four Defenders the team operated in 2015 for moorland casualty carrying on the West Pennine Moors, in white with a fluorescent front, orange chequer, a…
United Kingdom
Series III
1982PHB 645Y, a 1982 Series III 109 fire appliance of Gwent Fire Brigade in its blue-lit, old-siren livery — side lockers, roof ladders and hoses still aboard — later worked industrially in north-west England, shown on…
United Kingdom
Defender
1987E887 YLG: a 1987 Land Rover 110 V8 built by Carmichael as a hydrant vehicle for the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, then rebuilt in 1989 by Storm Fire Protection as a CAA-approved Category 2 airfield fire engine…
Carmichael & Sons United Kingdom
Defender
2002HT02 JVY: a 2002 Defender 110 pickup carrying a firefighting skid, in the lime-yellow livery of Invicta Fire & Rescue for helipad cover — a vehicle that earlier wore red at Goodwood Aerodrome.
United Kingdom
Series III
1972–79The Bates of Evesham forward-control pump: a Land Rover 1-ton 109 chassis with the six-cylinder engine, rebuilt as a cab-over appliance with a four-seat crew cab, roller-shutter lockers and roof ladders after Land…
Bates of Evesham United Kingdom
Series IIA
1973A 1973 Series IIB Forward Control of the Army Fire Service, bodied by HCB-Angus with a crew compartment, open lockers, a rear-mounted Godiva pump of 350 gallons a minute at 10 bar driven off the transfer-box PTO, and…
HCB-Angus United Kingdom
Series II
1959XLE 762, the first Forest Rover: the prototype Roadless Traction conversion of a 1959 Series II 109, on 10×28 six-ply tractor tyres and replacement axles, supplied to the Forestry Commission with what was described…
Roadless Traction Ltd United Kingdom
Defender
1991–94The RAF's helicopter servicing Land Rover in its Defender 110 form: a roof platform to work on a helicopter at height, work lights, a yellow band along the body and a heavy front winch, photographed at RAF Wattisham…
United Kingdom
Defender
1993–2000The Pathfinder Platoon's Long Range Patrol Vehicle: a cutaway Defender 90 — the "Piggyback" — stripped of windscreen and doors by REME 10 Airborne Workshop at Aldershot around 1993, with double jerrycan racks where…
REME 10 Airborne Workshop United Kingdom
Defender
1992The MEDSOV, the 75th Ranger Regiment's casualty-evacuation version of the Ranger Special Operations Vehicle: the same Defender 110 with its rear gun mount removed to carry up to six litters and a pair of spare tyres…
United Kingdom
Defender
1992The Ranger Special Operations Vehicle: a Land Rover Defender 110 built by Land Rover Special Vehicles for the US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment from 1992 to replace its M151 gun jeeps — an open three-man light attack…
United Kingdom
Defender
2008–11The Re-lifed WMIK of 2008: the WMIK rebuilt around an armoured rear V-hull in place of the E-WMIK's suspended belly plates, with suspension uprated to a 4,100 kg gross weight, Bilstein dampers to steady the vehicle…
Ricardo plc United Kingdom
Defender
2006–08The Enhanced WMIK of 2006: the Wolf-based weapons platform given uprated suspension for more payload, the MAPIK modular armour kit against IEDs — wheel-arch and belly plates — alloy wheels designed to fragment rather…
Ricardo plc United Kingdom
Defender
1996–2001A Defender XD 110 in plain white, as driven by the Special Boat Service around Mazar-i-Sharif in late 2001 when an SBS unit was the quick reaction force for northern Afghanistan — the standard Wolf-family soft top…
United Kingdom
Series II
1958–61A Royal Navy bomb disposal Land Rover of the Series era: a 109-inch station wagon in the Navy's dark blue with red-masked front wings and rear arches, RN lettering on wing and doors, a bomb disposal notice on the…
United Kingdom
Defender
1997–2000The Czech Army's airborne workhorse: a 300 Tdi Defender 110 soft top with a windowed canopy, two-piece doors, a side-hinged tailgate and a bonnet-mounted spare, carrying eight paratroopers on inward-facing benches in…
United Kingdom
Defender
1997–2000The short-wheelbase Czech paratroop Defender: a 300 Tdi Defender 90 soft top with a windowed canopy, two-piece doors and a bonnet spare, in NATO IRR green with Czech roundels — the 110's companion in the airborne…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1964–71An Australian Army Series IIA 109 in the workshop form the census code 6040A describes — a telecommunications repair shop: a separate cab ahead of a hard box body carrying the benches and test gear of a signals…
Pressed Metal Corporation United Kingdom, Australia
Series III
1974–75Belgian Army Series III 88-inch staff car with canvas top, 4×2 transmission and limited-slip differential.
United Kingdom
Defender
2009A stone-coloured 6092-series Durisotti Defender 110 Station Wagon of the French Army Special Forces Command, fitted out for JTAC work with an external rollover cage carrying LED lights, kangaroo bars, mesh screens…
Durisotti United Kingdom, France
Defender
2009The French Army's convoy escort Defender: a 6072-series Durisotti-converted 110 Station Wagon in NATO green, carrying three orange roof beacons, fold-down CONVOI EXCEPTIONNEL boards and plated rear door windows — one…
Durisotti United Kingdom, France
Defender
2010–11The Véhicule Tactique d'Avitaillement: an open Land Rover carrying TITAN Défense's tactical hot-refuelling dispenser — a 20-metre suction hose on a reel behind the cab, two 40-metre delivery hoses, and filtering…
Otokar, Titan Défense France, Turkey
Defender
1990–98A Tdi-era Land Rover Defender 110 Station Wagon of the Croatian police in white with the blue-and-yellow POLICIJA stripe, its glazing — windscreen included — caged in mesh guards, with a roof rack carrying the spare…
United Kingdom
Defender
1988An Otokar APV — the Turkish-built descendant of the Shorland S55, on the Land Rover Defender 110 chassis — in Turkish National Police white and blue, with mesh-guarded glazing, droppable vision blocks along each rear…
Short Brothers, Otokar Turkey, United Kingdom
Defender
1990The last Land Rover of the Mersey Tunnels Police: a 1990 white Defender 90 hard top with a red stripe edged in blue, TUNNEL POLICE door lettering and a blue roof lightbar, run by the small independent force that…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1970Vaduz’s 1970 Marte-bodied Series IIB Forward Control Pikettfahrzeug, with an integrated cab, crew compartment and equipment body.
Marte Feuerwehrfahrzeuge United Kingdom, Austria
Defender
2013The Armée de l'Air's mobile command post: a Defender 130 carrying a tall box body by Essonne Sécurité, lettered VÉHICULE POSTE DE COMMANDEMENT in fire-service red with yellow chevrons and a blue lightbar, run by the…
Essonne Sécurité United Kingdom, France
Series III
2011BVVB Campo de Besteiros light fire appliance VLCI 06, with a Series III cab, rear pump, twin hose reels and overhead suction-pipe and ladder storage.
Carmichael & Sons United Kingdom
Defender
2009DVD Blaguša's red Defender 110 station wagon, with a white roof, full-length equipment rack, roof-mounted spare and blue warning beacons.
United Kingdom
Defender
2006Yellow ONF Var Defender 110 logistics and forest-fire patrol vehicle, with a canvas-covered rear bed, external cab protection and DFCI markings.
United Kingdom
Series III
1978Unipart's 1978 six-cylinder Series III fire tender, fitted with full-width Carmichael coachwork, tall cab glazing and roller-shutter equipment lockers.
Carmichael & Sons United Kingdom
Defender
2005Otokar's licence-built military Land Rover ambulance: a Defender 110 with a rounded over-cab body enclosing a two-stretcher treatment compartment, 300 Tdi power and raised air intake, finished matt NATO green with…
Otokar Turkey, United Kingdom
Series IIA
1963–64Air Portable General Purpose: an amphibious, air-portable 109-inch Series IIA built for British Army troop trials in 1964, with a foam-filled chassis, rubberised flotation bags inflated from the exhaust and a…
United Kingdom
Series III
1974–80The first production Shorland Armoured Personnel Vehicle, marketed from 1974: a turretless, fully enclosed body on the Mark 3 Shorland's six-cylinder chassis, carrying a crew of eight behind eight gun ports with no…
Short Brothers, RUC Vehicle Engineering, Seapark United Kingdom
Series IIA
1968–73The one-off turretless demonstrator that opened the Shorland's enclosed-body branch: a Shorland hull with no turret, extended rear sides and a thin steel roof, built by Short Brothers & Harland in Belfast and…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Defender
1988–96The turretless troop-carrying member of the Series 5: an eight-man enclosed armoured personnel vehicle on the Defender 110 chassis, with four doors, eight firing ports and a sloped roof that sheds thrown objects, and…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Series III
1980–90The V8 generation of the enclosed Shorland Armoured Personnel Vehicle, reworked by Short Brothers around the Stage One long-wheelbase Series III chassis. The forward-set radiator and angular front wheel arches…
Short Brothers, RUC Vehicle Engineering, Seapark United Kingdom
Defender
1996Airport anti-hijack car that gave the discontinued S51 body a second life: armoured glass panels let into the hull and the turret for all-round vision, a sniper's rifle mount in the turret front, and a brilliant…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Defender
1980–96Turretless air-defence member of the Series 5 family: an S52 whose turret ring carries a pintle-mounted Shorts lightweight multiple launcher with three canistered Blowpipe, Javelin or Starburst missiles, six reloads…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Defender
1980sThe opening Series 5 Shorland: a turreted armoured patrol car that carried the familiar sloping-tail Shorland shape onto the coil-sprung Land Rover 110 chassis, with only a small escape hatch in the rear panel. It…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Series III
1972–80The Ulster Defence Regiment's Mark 3 Shorland: the same 2,625 cc six-cylinder turreted patrol car as the Dutch cars, but delivered new from 1972 in olive drab on xxFLxx and xxGFxx military registrations, with…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Series IIA
1967–72A thicker-skinned second-generation Shorland patrol car — armour raised from 7.25 mm to 8.25 mm on the same Series IIA chassis and 2,286 cc four — of which only about 50 were built. It is identified by the double…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Defender
1980–96The definitive Series 5 armoured patrol car: an S51 lengthened behind the crew compartment so that the extended rear cabin could carry weapons, ammunition and radios, reached through a large rear hatch instead of the…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Defender
1990–2011Otokar's Turkish-built development of the Shorland S55, sold as the ZPT — Zırhlı Personel Taşıyıcı, or Armoured Personnel Transporter. Built on Otokar's own strengthened Defender 110 chassis and re-engined and…
Short Brothers, Otokar Turkey, United Kingdom
Series III
1986–90A Shorts Armoured Personnel Vehicle in Royal Air Force Police service — the enclosed, turretless Shorland used for guard-force work at RAF stations at home and, in RAF Germany, for securing Special Weapons sites and…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Series III
1969–80The best-selling turreted Shorland — over 500 built, most on Series III chassis with the 2,625 cc six-cylinder — here in Dutch Rijkspolitie form. The Dienst Luchtvaart kept four and later five at Schiphol from 1976…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Series I
1950Jack Oliver Dobson's 1950 80-inch Series I: a fully rebuilt example of Land Rover's first, pre-Series shape, campaigned by the Brisbane classic Land Rover specialist who also runs the Shop Truck in this registry. It…
Jack Oliver Dobson United Kingdom, Australia
Series IIA
1961–72Australia's own long-range patrol Land Rover: AMF-spec Series IIA 109 General Service trucks stripped of doors, roof, windscreen and tailgate and rebuilt in Perth for the Special Air Service Regiment, carrying 360…
State Engineering Australia, United Kingdom
Series IIA
1961–72Not an ambulance conversion but an ordinary Series IIA 109 General Service truck given a set of stretcher rails: the Australian Army's 'Fitted With Stretcher Frame' vehicles carried C-section rails and a bulkhead…
United Kingdom
Series II
1959–64An 88-inch Land Rover made to carry two stretchers by extending its floor out past the tailgate and stretching the canvas over longer hoops to cover the overhang — a short, nimble casualty carrier that could get…
United Kingdom, Australia
Series IIA
1964–71A Series IIA 109 general service Land Rover converted at unit level into a line layer - 'Fitted For Line' - with a tubular frame over the body for cable-laying ladders and one or two cable reels in the rear. Despite…
Pressed Metal Corporation United Kingdom, Australia
Perentie
1987–92The radio-carrying Perentie: 'Truck, Utility, Lightweight, FFR, MC2', a 110 4x4 with an auxiliary 28-volt supply, two under-floor battery banks, a bulkhead power distribution panel and four antenna bases on the tray…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1987–2000The standard Surveillance and Reconnaissance Vehicle as delivered - the plain SRV before the special forces mission kit, with its stepped high canopy, taller roll-over protection, twin spare tyres on the left rear…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1987–92The station-wagon Perentie: 'Truck, Carryall, Lightweight, Personnel, MC2', a nine-seat 110 wagon with a safari roof, no alpine windows and a single side-hinged rear door. Only 38 were built, making it one of the…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1989–92'Truck, Air Defence, Light, FFR, Winch, MC2' - the Perentie 6x6 built to carry a ground-based air defence detachment of three with either six Rapier or twelve RBS-70 missiles and their fire and target equipment.…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Perentie
1989A Perentie 6x6 carrying a Parakeet communications shelter - the Australian Army's mobile trunk and satellite communications system, developed by AWA Defence Industries under project JP65 and fielded from the…
AWA Defence Industries, BAE Systems Australia Australia
Perentie
1989–92The four-door crew cab Perentie 6x6 - 'Truck, Crew Cab, Light, Winch, MC2' - built to carry five soldiers under cover with a canvas-tilted cargo tray behind them. Just 26 were built, the smallest of the mainstream…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
Santana Cazorla
1982The Santana Cazorla is the top-of-the-range 109-inch station wagon that Santana Motor of Linares built from 1982 as an evolution of its Series III 109 Especial, and the 'Cazorla 6' is the version fitted with…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 1300
1967–78A Santana 1300 forward-control chassis-cab bodied as a canvas-tilt recovery and breakdown truck. The 1300 was Santana's own 1.3-tonne forward-control lorry, built at Linares from 1967 to 1978 on Series IIA 109-inch…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 1300
1967–78The Santana 1300 Bomberos is the forward-control Santana 1.3-tonne truck bodied as a light fire appliance, a combination widely used by Spanish municipal and forest fire brigades from the late 1960s onwards. Madrid's…
FIMESA, Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 1300
1967–78A real Spanish fire appliance: a crew-cab (doble cabina) Santana 1300, the forward-control Linares-built 1.3-tonne truck bodied for firefighting with a lengthened cab seating a full crew ahead of the pump, tank and…
FIMESA, Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Defender
1989–90The V8-powered 127-inch Rapier detachment vehicle built by Land Rover Special Projects, which took over from the 101 Forward Control as the British Rapier air defence tractor at the end of the 1980s: a long-wheelbase…
United Kingdom
Defender
2010–11Project HEBE was a British Ministry of Defence programme, begun in 2009-10, to convert surplus Land Rover Defender 130 'Pulse' battlefield ambulances into four-man high-capacity double-cab pick-up trucks. Up to 500…
Defence Support Group United Kingdom
Santana Series (88/109)
1970–80The Mercurio was the radio station (estación radio) of the Spanish Army's Programa OLIMPO signals system, carried in the hard-topped signals body of a Santana-built Land Rover 109 — the LR-109 ETRS. The Type B…
Spanish Army Jefatura de Transmisiones, Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana PS-10 / Aníbal
2002–11The UME Aníbal is the Santana Aníbal station wagon in the colours of Spain's Unidad Militar de Emergencias, the joint-service military emergency unit created in 2005. Some 225 were taken on charge across all of the…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana Series (88/109)
1960–2000The Spanish Army's Santana 109 Militar ambulance: a long-wheelbase Santana-built Land Rover with a full-width hard box body, twin rear doors carrying red crosses on white panels, roof beacons and stretcher…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana PS-10 / Aníbal
2002–11A stripped, open cab-top Santana Aníbal in Spanish Army green, presented as a special-operations patrol vehicle. The open cab-top Aníbal is a genuine Spanish Army body style, but no dedicated special-operations…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana PS-10 / Aníbal
2002–11The Policía Militar Aníbal is the Spanish military police version of Santana's last vehicle: an army-green Aníbal — most often the canvas-tilt soft top — carrying white 'PM' markings and a blue light bar for escort…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana PS-10 / Aníbal
2002–11The soft-top Santana Aníbal is the Spanish Army's canvas-tilt version of Santana Motor's last vehicle: a two-door cab with a tan canvas hood over the rear body, on the same 2,768 mm wheelbase and Iveco 2.8-litre…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana PS-10 / Aníbal
2002–11The Santana Aníbal is the last vehicle Santana Motor developed on its own, a heavily reworked descendant of the Santana 2500 that was shown in 2002 and sold from 2004 until the Linares factory closed in 2011.…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 2000 FC
1979A Santana 2000 forward-control chassis-cab bodied as a double-cab fire appliance. The 2000 was Santana's two-tonne truck, launched in February 1979 to replace the 1300, powered by the company's own 3,429 cc straight…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 2000 FC
1979A Santana 2000 forward-control two-tonne truck with a canvas tilt over the rear cargo body, presented in Spanish military finish. The Santana 2000 chassis-cab, launched in February 1979 with the company's 3,429 cc…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 2000 FC
1979The flat-tray Santana 2000: the Linares-built two-tonne forward-control chassis-cab with an open drop-side platform body — the plainest and most common way the type was bodied. The chassis and the platform body are…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 2000 FC
1979A Santana 2000 forward-control chassis-cab carrying a box-bodied mobile radio station, presented in Spanish military finish. The 2000 chassis and its box-van body option are documented; the Spanish Army's own radio…
Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Santana 2000 FC
1979A Santana 2000 forward-control two-tonne 4x4 converted into an autocaravana — a go-anywhere motorhome on the Linares-built chassis-cab, with a coachbuilt living body raised well above the original cab line. The…
Taller de Carrocería Manuel Santana, Santana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana) Spain
Defender
1995–96A Defender 90 hard top of the Coastguard Rescue Service, in HM Coastguard's dark blue and yellow livery: the 4×4 that carries a volunteer Coastguard Rescue Team and its rope, mud and search equipment to the cliff top…
United Kingdom
Defender
2014Blackpool Council's Beach Patrol Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon — a white, yellow-flashed rescue vehicle carrying a rescue board and buoyancy aids on its roof rack, used to patrol the six miles of Blackpool…
United Kingdom
Defender
1983–2016Open-topped Land Rover Defender 130 safari tourer — the long-wheelbase 'game viewer' conversion, with the roof and side glass removed, a folding windscreen and tiered rows of raised passenger seats under a canvas…
Foley Specialist Vehicles United Kingdom
Defender
2010Greater Manchester Police's armoured Land Rover Defender 110 — a heavily armoured, deliberately unmarked blue-grey protected patrol vehicle based at Manchester Airport and documented in the force's armed-policing…
United Kingdom
Defender
1990–2010Royal Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Land Rover Defender 110 — the white, blue-lamped support vehicle used by Royal Navy clearance-diving EOD teams, including the Northern Diving Group at HMNB Clyde (Faslane), to…
United Kingdom
Defender
2005Cleveland Fire Brigade's Land Rover Defender 130 Line Rescue unit, NX05 FVA — a 2005 crew-cab Defender carrying a demountable box body of rope-rescue and water-rescue equipment, based at Coulby Newham fire station on…
United Kingdom
Defender
2004Bay Search & Rescue's Land Rover Defender 130 ambulance — a box-bodied, battenburg-marked all-terrain ambulance run by the independent volunteer rescue charity that covers the quicksands and mudflats of Morecambe Bay…
United Kingdom
Defender
2000–09Land Rover Defender 130 light rescue appliance of the Falkland Islands Fire & Rescue Service, run as 'Rescue 1' (fleet number F1946) from Stanley as the islands' first-response road traffic collision vehicle.
United Kingdom
Defender
2015–16Land Rover Defender crew-cab rescue vehicle 'CRO 2' (PJ65 XCY) of the Cave Rescue Organisation, the Clapham-based Yorkshire Dales team that is the oldest cave rescue organisation in the world.
Lakeland Conversions United Kingdom
Defender
1985–86Cumbria Constabulary Land Rover One Ten station wagon C931 MHH, a mid-1980s white police patrol wagon with orange-and-chequered livery and an oversized roof beacon, photographed on patrol beside the M6 in the…
United Kingdom
Series III
1968–85An unidentified build in the style of the SAS's open desert patrol Land Rovers, applied to a Series III 109. The SAS's documented patrol vehicles were the Series IIA 'Pink Panther' and the later 110 Desert Patrol…
United Kingdom
Series I
1949–50Royal Air Force Series I 88in aircraft crash rescue Land Rover - an RAF blue-grey soft top lettered AIRCRAFT CRASH RESCUE, of the type that replaced the wartime crash-rescue Jeeps as the first-away rescue vehicle on…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Series II
1958–61Preserved Royal Navy Series II 88in hard top rescue Land Rover SSK 357 - gloss dark navy with ROYAL NAVY RESCUE roof sign, twin searchlights and a rope-rigged front winch, of the type kept as first-away rescue trucks…
United Kingdom
Defender
2009–11The Kajman ('caiman') is the Czech Army's Defender 130-based light strike vehicle: an open patrol body with roll cage, ring-mounted machine gun and front jerry-can carriers, converted by SVOS of Přelouč. 79 were…
SVOS spol. s r.o. Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Perentie
1987The surveillance arm of Australia's Perentie 4x4 family: the canvas-bodied RFSV (Regional Force Surveillance Vehicle), 231 of which were built for the outback patrol units NORFORCE, the Pilbara Regiment and 51 FNQR…
JRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia) Australia
109″ · High headlights · Curved rear mudguards
1962–66Land Rover's first forward-control truck: the Series IIA Forward Control of 1962-1966 put a cab over the engine of a strengthened 109-inch chassis to carry a 30 cwt payload. Distinguished from its IIB successor by…
United Kingdom
101″ · Rapier equipment carrier
1976–78The Australian Army's Rapier tractor: one of 58 right-hand-drive 101 Forward Controls built at Solihull in 1976–78 for the British Aircraft Corporation and delivered with the Rapier surface-to-air missile system…
United Kingdom
101″ · Electronic Warfare
1975–78The rarest 101 Forward Control body: an electronic-warfare conversion of the 24-volt radio-bodied 101, carrying a roof antenna array and a screened interior, used by 14 Signal Regiment in Germany to direction-find…
United Kingdom
101″ · Radio communications body
1972–78The radio-bodied 101 Forward Control: a demountable box body on the V8 cab-over chassis, almost always wired for 24 volts to match British Army radio sets, used as a signals vehicle and command post and later as the…
United Kingdom
101″ · General Service · Canvas cargo body
1972–78The General Service cargo form of the Land Rover 101 Forward Control, the V8-powered 'One Tonne' cab-over truck built for the British military 1972-1978. All 2,669 left Solihull as soft-top GS gun tractors, designed…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
19691969 Land Rover Series IIA 109in RAF crash rescue ambulance TRP 291G, a Marshall of Cambridge-bodied ambulance specialised for the rapid recovery of airfield incident casualties, fitted with a large front crash bar.
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Series III
1980–90The last of the leaf-sprung turreted Shorlands, in production from 1980 with the Rover V8 in place of the six. Fitting the larger engine pushed the radiator well forward, and that forward grille — with recessed door…
Short Brothers United Kingdom
Defender
2011The OVIK Pangolin is an armoured public-order patrol vehicle built on the heavy-duty Land Rover Defender 110 'Puma' chassis for the Police Service of Northern Ireland, which began replacing its RUC-era Tangi armoured…
OVIK, ABBA Commercials United Kingdom
Defender
1998Six-wheel crew-cab fire appliance built on an extended Land Rover Defender, typified by the one-off 1998 6×6 appliance that protected Land Rover's own Gaydon proving ground for nearly two decades.
GB Fire United Kingdom
Series III
1980–89Land Rover-approved 6×6 conversion of the Series III Stage One V8 by the Sandringham Motor Company (SMC Engineering, Bristol), sold in 125-inch (S6) and 139-inch (S6E) wheelbases as a two-ton load carrier; the…
Sandringham Motor Company (SMC Engineering), Hotspur Armoured Products United Kingdom
Series III
1982–87Armoured personnel carrier developed as a private venture by Hotspur Armoured Products on the Sandringham 6 — the Land Rover-approved 6×6 conversion of the Series III Stage One V8 engineered by the Sandringham Motor…
Sandringham Motor Company (SMC Engineering), Hotspur Armoured Products United Kingdom
Series III
1980sAir-defence configuration of the Hotspur/SMC Sandringham 6 6×6 Stage One V8, carrying a twin 20 mm Rheinmetall Rh 202 anti-aircraft mount on the load bed; documented only from period Sandringham 6 promotional…
Sandringham Motor Company (SMC Engineering), Hotspur Armoured Products United Kingdom
Series III
1970sA mine-protected conversion of the Series III 109 Land Rover, with hooped roll bars and deflective belly armour, of the pattern Britain supplied to the Commonwealth Monitoring Force for the Rhodesia-Zimbabwe…
United Kingdom
Defender
1984The Hotspur Hussar is a 6x6 armoured personnel carrier built by Hotspur Armoured Products of Wales on a stretched Land Rover One Ten chassis with a third, driven rear axle, first shown in 1984 and exported to Egypt…
Hotspur Armoured Products, Penman Engineering United Kingdom
Series IIA
1962Vickers-Armstrongs' 1962 experimental air-cushion Land Rover: a hovercraft-style skirt and fan conversion, demonstrated at South Marston, that part-supported the vehicle on an air cushion while its wheels kept traction.
Vickers-Armstrongs United Kingdom
Series II
1958–60A 1958 Series II 109" fitted with a powered luggage conveyor running the length of the vehicle, conceived by Peter Moy for airport baggage and cargo handling; believed to be the only 109-inch Moy Conveyor built.
Precision Engineering Products (Suffolk) Ltd United Kingdom
Series IIA
1970–71Air-Drive Ltd's 1970-71 'Harrier': a strengthened Series IIA 109" carrying a McConnel PA44 hydraulic backhoe at the rear and a Montabert hydraulic concrete breaker at the front — a Land Rover-based mini-digger aimed…
Air-Drive Ltd United Kingdom
Huge forward cab; broad truck stance; recovery equipment and yellow livery.
1962One-off 1962 forward-control military load-carrier prototype on a purpose-built 112-inch chassis, nicknamed 'Buttercup' for its yellow livery. Rejected by the military, it was converted into a recovery vehicle and…
United Kingdom
Series II
1965–95The 'Gastrowagon' is the Series II 109" Land Rover (HEB 170X) converted into a mobile kitchen - complete with an upturned-boat sleeping roof - for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Channel 4 series A Cook on the Wild…
John Brown 4x4 United Kingdom
Series IIA
1965The 1965 OTAL — One Ton Amphibious Land Rover — a one-off factory prototype with watertight aluminium hull compartments and foam-filled buoyancy, built for Australian Army trials and propelled in the water by its own…
United Kingdom
Defender
1993A 1993 Land Rover 110 Special Operations Vehicle trials demonstrator, one of three vehicles built around the US 75th Ranger Regiment's requirement that produced the Ranger SOV, and the pioneer of the roll-cage and…
Marshall of Cambridge United Kingdom
Series I
1950Experimental 1950 Series I fitted with the military Rolls-Royce B40 petrol engine for Army engine-standardisation trials, its rear axle moved back an inch to create the so-called 81-inch wheelbase. Around 33-34 were…
Hudson Motors Ltd United Kingdom
Defender
19861986 ex-Ministry of Defence Land Rover Ninety (64 KF 64) converted in 1996 into one of the British Army Motoring Association's four rally team vehicles, running under the radio call sign 'Romeo Four'. Retired in…
British Army Motoring Association United Kingdom
Series IIA
1968A 1968 Series IIA 88 issued to the British Army of the Rhine and rebuilt by army workshops in Germany as a black-painted ceremonial and security vehicle — complete with VW Beetle hubcaps and mirrors — used during…
British Army (BAOR) Workshops United Kingdom, Germany
Defender
1995One-off 1995 mobile weapons platform by British Independent Reconnaissance and Strike Technology (UK) Ltd, built on a 1984 Land Rover One Ten V8 with a fire-retardant GRP body over a tubular-steel spaceframe; shown…
British Independent Reconnaissance and Strike Technology United Kingdom
Defender
2007Steve Burgess's amphibious 2007 Defender 110 (YK07 DTA), which on 8 August 2008 became the first road vehicle to swim across the Bering Strait, using bolt-on pontoons, a propeller drive and caterpillar tracks.…
Steve Burgess United Kingdom
Discovery 1
1991The Challenger was a 1991 Land Rover engineering study for a common platform spanning the whole model range. Three prototypes were built; the sole survivor, military-style pick-up JUNO01 - a hand-built body on a…
United Kingdom
Series III
19751975 Series III Land Rover converted by Carmichael & Sons of Worcester to their Redwing FT/5 fire appliance specification, which served the works fire brigade of the Cape Hill Brewery in Smethwick. Donated to the…
Carmichael & Sons United Kingdom
Defender
20112011 Defender 110 utility fitted with a front snowplough blade and rear grit spreader, retired from seasonal winter-maintenance work with a Scottish local authority and preserved as WOR 03 in the Land Rover Heritage…
United Kingdom
Series I
1952A 1952 military Series I stripped to a bare driveable chassis as an Army instructional aid at the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Bordon — on its 2014 retirement, the oldest serving Land Rover in Army…
REME / SEME Bordon United Kingdom
Tiny open driving station; articulated centre; narrow agricultural working layout.
1998A one-off 1998 Land Rover concept for a high-mobility off-road farmer's runaround: a centre-articulated space frame carrying the engine, gearbox and suspension of a scrapyard Subaru Sumo. The sole prototype (chassis…
United Kingdom
Defender
1994–96One of the Wolf-specification Defender 110s prepared by Land Rover Special Vehicles for Sir Ranulph Fiennes' cancelled 1997-98 Global Expedition, riding on four Mattracks rubber track units and equipped to drive a…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
19681968 Series IIA 109 pickup fitted from new with a Harvey Frost 30cwt recovery crane, worked for 52 years by one Hampshire garage and now preserved, unrestored, in the Land Rover Heritage Collection.
Harvey Frost & Co. United Kingdom
Huge sculpted yellow body; enclosed wheels; deeply recessed glazing.
1970–94Futuristic yellow 'City Cab' taxi built by Rover Group on 1970s Land Rover 101 Forward Control chassis for the 1995 film Judge Dredd; 22 were made and the sole fully-fitted example is preserved at the British Motor…
United Kingdom
Series III
1960–85The civilian Carawagon: the Land Rover 109 Station Wagon turned into a four-berth camper by R. J. Searle Ltd of Sunbury-on-Thames, identified by a full-length elevating roof of aluminium and marine plywood that bows…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Series IIA
1969–71The Searle Mini-Carawagon, Carawagon International's compact camper conversion of the late Series IIA 88-inch hard top, with side windows and the folding elevating roof in a short-wheelbase package, offered in 1970…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Series IIA
1969–71The Carawagon de Luxe, the higher-trim version of Searle's Carawagon camper conversion of the Series IIA 109 station wagon, sold by Carawagon International in 1970 with the elevating roof, double-level sleeping and a…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Series IIA
1969–71The Carawagon Ultimate, the top-specification Searle Carawagon camper conversion marketed with the Continental in 1970 — a Series IIA 109 station wagon equipped for long-distance overland travel with roof cargo…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Series IIA
1960–71The Carawagon Safari, R.J. Searle's short-wheelbase camper conversion of the 88-inch three-door Land Rover: no elevating roof was offered, the conversion instead removing the bulkhead and fitting seats that fold into…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Series III
1971–85The Carawagon Continental — R.J. Searle's camper conversion of the five-door 109 station wagon with the folding wood-and-metal elevating roof, roof rack and a rear tent annexe pitched against the tailgate.
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Series IIA
1960–70The Carawagon Model 80 mobile education unit, one of R.J. Searle's standard 'special versions' of the Series IIA 109 three-door Carawagon: an outdoor classroom on each side of the vehicle with a large extending…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Series IIA
1960–70The Carawagon Model 80 mobile clinic, one of R.J. Searle's standard 'special versions' of the Series IIA 109 three-door Carawagon: a roving clinic for remote villages with an elevating roof, folding stretcher, sink…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Series III
1978–84British Army command-post version of the Searle Carawagon camper conversion: around 34 Series III 109s with elevating arched roofs, blackout curtains and map tables, converted from about 1978 for field commanders in…
Searle Ltd (Carawagon) United Kingdom
Defender
2000A 2000 Defender 130 Td5 ambulance bodied by MMB International (Macclesfield Motor Bodies) that served St John Ambulance Guernsey as a first-responder, now preserved complete with its medical equipment by the Land…
MMB International United Kingdom
Series III
1985One of four New Zealand Defence Force Stage 1 109s converted for electronic warfare, with hardtop equipment body, aerial-mast roof rack, side fuel tanks and dual rear wheels to carry the surveillance fit — the…
United Kingdom, New Zealand
Series IIA
1966Queen Elizabeth II's personal 1966 Series IIA 109 Station Wagon (JYV 1D) — one of the first with the 2.6-litre six-cylinder engine, upgraded with leather seats, a wooden dog guard and side steps — famous from the…
United Kingdom
Defender
1990One of three armoured Land Rover One Thirty 'special builds' commissioned in 1990 for Reuters war correspondents. The running survivor (G989 VUE) is with the Land Rover Heritage Collection; a sister vehicle, hit by…
United Kingdom
Series IIA
1967A 1967 Series IIA 88-inch hardtop in Post Office red Royal Mail livery, of the type the GPO used for deliveries in the remoter parts of the UK; the preserved example (PKH 495F) belongs to the Land Rover Heritage…
United Kingdom
Defender
2000One of three armoured Defender 110 Station Wagon prototypes built in South Africa in 2000 from CKD kits, the Td5-powered 'Taurus' was a discreet three-ton armoured car thought to have been intended for sale through…
South Africa, United Kingdom
Defender
1985–2010Project Tithonus was the British MoD's life-extension programme of the late 2000s, in which ABRO workshops refurbished 1985–87 Land Rover Ninety and One Ten hard tops — new Wolf-style hard tops, roll-over protection…
ABRO (Army Base Repair Organisation) United Kingdom
Defender
2000Defender 110 High Capacity Pick-Up converted by Land Rover Special Vehicles as Lara Croft's expedition vehicle for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001); three were built and two survive.
United Kingdom
Defender
1994A 1994 development prototype from the Wolf programme: a 110 TUM fitted with a one-off extra-height hard top, used by Land Rover Engineering for trials and later as a data-retrieval rig, and now preserved in the…
United Kingdom
Defender
1998The winterised/waterproofed Wolf: a Royal Marines-oriented development of the TUM HS able to wade 1.5 m of salt or fresh water and operate at -46 °C, with raised air intake, sealed switchgear, rear-mounted heaters…
United Kingdom
Series I
1955'Cambridge' (SNX 761) is the light-blue sister car to 'Oxford' on the 1955-56 Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, the 'First Overland' from London to Singapore. Sold on in 1957, it crashed into a ravine in…
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