DIFFLOCKEDTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1960–70
NAMED MODELSpecial · AmbulancesSpecial · Expedition & CampersUnited Kingdom

Carawagon Mobile Clinic.

The 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 and water tank, sterilisation unit, vaccine refrigerator, patient couch, nurse's seat, air conditioning, a tent extension and flashing beacon lights.

Drive it in the gameSources & evidence
Carawagon Mobile Clinic — front three-quarter render
BASE VEHICLESeries II 109″CONVERTERSearle Ltd (Carawagon)IN SERVICE1960–70PRODUCTIONUnknownLAYOUT4 wheels · 109″

The record

R.J. Searle Ltd of Sunbury-on-Thames built the Carawagon camper conversions on Land Rovers from the 1960s and, alongside the campers, offered standard 'special versions' of the Model 80 three-door 109 for export and aid customers. The mobile clinic was designed as a roving clinic visiting remote villages to give vaccinations and routine health care: it came with the elevating roof, cupboards, a folding stretcher, a sink and water tap fed from a large water tank with a foot pump, a water filtration system, a sterilisation unit, a vaccine refrigerator, a patient couch, a nurse's seat, air conditioning, a tent extension for the rear door and flashing beacon lights. The source preserves the brochure summary and an interior view of the clinic fit; numbers built and customers are not recorded.

The registry's model is its civilian green Carawagon hard top with a black grille, red crosses, blue beacons, roof stores that can be dropped, and the tent extension pitched behind the rear door (shown in the registry renders only); the interior fittings are not modelled.

Specification

MANUFACTURERSearle Ltd (Carawagon) ↗
Land Rover (Series IIA 109 three-door); Carawagon conversion by R.J. Searle Ltd, Sunbury-on-Thames
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERSearle Ltd (Carawagon) ↗
R.J. Searle Ltd (Carawagon Model 80 mobile clinic)
MANUFACTUREDCarawagon Model 80 specials, 1960s-1970s (dates not stated in the source)
ENGINERover 2.25 L four-cylinder petrol or 2.6 L six-cylinder (Series IIA 109 options; not stated in the source)
PRODUCTION RUNUnknown — a catalogued Carawagon special version
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
STATUSunknown
EQUIPMENTElevating roof, folding stretcher, sink and water tank with foot pump, water filtration, sterilisation unit, vaccine refrigerator, patient couch, nurse's seat, air conditioning, tent extension, beacon lights
ROLERoving village clinic
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESeries IIA
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE109″
CATEGORYSpecial · Ambulances, Special · Expedition & Campers

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Sources

  1. 1Carawagons — expeditionlandrover.info (Model 80 special versions: mobile clinic; brochure summary and interior photograph) ↗expeditionlandrover.info · accessed 2026-09-11SOURCE
  2. 2http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Carawagons.htmhttp://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Carawagons.htm ↗REFERENCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-11T11:41:00.202Z · status: researched