The record
Most Post Office Land Rovers were bought for rough ground; this one was bought for snow. The Snowtrac conversion replaces each wheel with a triangular rubber-tracked bogie, driven from the hub, which spreads the vehicle's weight over a track footprint and lets an otherwise standard Land Rover cross drifts and soft ground that would stop it on wheels. The Post Office listed it simply as an all-terrain vehicle.
The base is a Series III 88-inch hardtop — the registration MAS 461R places it in 1976–77 — carrying roof ladders as telephone engineers' vehicles did. It was photographed in 1985. The Post Office record gives no fleet number or quantity, and no other example is documented, so it is best read as a one-off or a very small batch kept for the districts that needed it.
