The registry catalogues vehicles one at a time. These pages read across it: how each working role — policing, fire, rescue, casualty evacuation and soldiering — took the Land Rover from the earliest Series I conversions to the last Defenders, told through the vehicles in the collection and the workshops that built them.
From a Belgian gendarme's 80-inch with a blue lamp on a mast to the armoured Pangolins of Belfast: seventy years of Land Rovers that carried the law to places a saloon car could not reach.
Rover catalogued a fire tender in the Land Rover's first years, and the small four-wheel-drive appliance has never gone away: works brigades, bush-fire tankers, airfield crash trucks and forest patrols from 1949 to the last Defender.
Airfield crash trucks, mountain and cave rescue teams, lifeboat launchers, coastguards and beach patrols: the Land Rovers whose job was to reach somebody, and often to carry them out.
Two stretchers under a stretched canvas tilt on a Belgian Minerva; four in a Marshall box on a 109; a demountable module on a six-wheeled Perentie; the 800 Defender 130 'Pulse' ambulances of the Wolf era. How the Land Rover learned to carry the wounded.
Minerva's steel-bodied Series I for the Belgian Army in 1952; the Lightweight built to fly under a Wessex; the 101 Forward Control; Australia's Perenties; Snatch, Wolf and WMIK; the licence-built Defenders of Spain and Turkey; the last NATO fleets. The largest single subject in the registry.
