The record
The Automobile Association started its Scottish Highland Patrols in the early 1950s to cover the long, empty roads north of the Great Glen, where a breakdown could leave a member stranded for hours. Land Rovers were the obvious choice — they could tow a car off a single-track road, carry fuel and spares, and keep going through Highland winters — and by 1958 the AA reckoned the patrols had helped more than 160,000 members in five years. TLE 883 is a Series I 88-inch in the AA's golden yellow with the black-painted front wing sides that kept the mud from showing, a truck cab with a canvas tilt over the rear body, the spare on the bonnet and a HIGHLAND PATROL board topped by the AA badge on the cab roof.
The Oxford Diecast 1:43 model 43LAN188025 and its product photographs, together with the AA's own history of its first ten years of Land Rovers, are the references: yellow body with black wing sides, khaki tilt, AA badges on both doors and the left wing front, the TLE 883 plate on the right wing front, a yellow whip aerial behind the cab and black steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle in the Breakdown group; the exact number of Highland Patrol Land Rovers is not recorded in the sources.
