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Hydro One 597-010 PowerTraxx 15SW-H Utility Tracked Vehicle with 831-040 Terex Digger Derrick photographed in the City of Timmins in Northeaster Ontario Canada
Hydro One 597-119 PowerTraxx 18-H Tracked Vehicle with 827-153 Altec Aerial Device photographed on a jobsite in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
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Photographed at the 66th Secretary of State Vehicle Show in Springfield on September 12, 2015.
Please visit my collection of Motor Vehicles on Flickr where you will find over 10,000 car and truck photos organized in albums by model year, manufacturer, vehicle type, and more. This project, which began in 2008, continues to expand with new material added daily.
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Burnaby Mountain, elev. 370 m (1,214 ft), is a low, forested mountain in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia,
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
RTV X1100C
Full Size Diesel Utility Vehicle,
UTV,
24.8 HP, diesel, engine, 3-cylinder,
Starting at $34,196,
Top speed, 25 mph,
For my video; youtu.be/0Q07VP_1oh0?si=KB3urKRMDiYGdZ7y,
The Ineos Grenadier is an off-road utility vehicle designed and produced by Ineos Automotive. It went into production in October 2022. The Grenadier was designed to be a modern replacement for the original Land Rover Defender, with boxy bodywork, a steel ladder chassis, beam axles with long-travel progressive-rate coil spring suspension (front and rear), and powered by a petrol BMW B58 or diesel BMW B57 inline six turbocharged engine.
Vancouver International Auto Show 2025, March 19, 2025,
Vancouver Convention Centre,
Coal Harbour, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Photographed at the 62nd Secretary of State Antique Vehicle Show in Springfield, Illinois on September 10, 2011.
Please visit my collection of Motor Vehicles on Flickr where you will find more than 10,000 photographs thoughtfully organized into albums, and presented by model year, manufacturer, vehicle type, and more. This project, which began in 2008, continues to expand with new material added daily.
Land Rover 88 Series III (1971-85) Engine 2286cc S4 Petrol
Production 440,000
Registration Number WAW 290 Y (Shropshire)
LAND ROVER ALBUM
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The Series III had the same body and engine options as the preceding IIa, including station wagons and the 1 Ton versions. Little changed cosmetically from the IIA to the Series III. The Series III is the most common Series vehicle, with 440,000 of the type built from 1971 to 1985. The headlights were moved to the wings on late production IIA models from 1968/9 onward (ostensibly to comply with Australian, American and Dutch lighting regulations) and remained in this position for the Series III. The traditional metal grille, featured on the Series I, II and IIA, was replaced with a plastic one for the Series III model.
Diolch am 92,712,699 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 92,712,699 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 23.04.2022 at the Bicester Spring Scramble, Bicester, Oxfordshire 158-253
Manufacturer: Société Anonyme Minerva Motors, Antwerp - Belgium
Type: Tout Terrain (T.T.) 80 (license Land-Rover)
Production time: 1952 - 1956
Production outlet: 8,440
Engine: 1997cc Rover 2.0-Litre straight-4 F-head OHV
Power: 52 bhp / 4.000 rpm
Torque: 140 Nm / 1.500 rpm
Drivetrain: 4x4 (front switchable)
Speed: 95 km/h
Curb weight: 1226 kg
Load capacity: 450 kg
Wheelbase: 80 inch
Chassis: steel ladder chassis with separate steel body
Steering: Burman / Douglas screw and nut
Gearbox: four-speed High/Low gearing manual / III and IV synchronized / floor shift
Clutch: 9.6 inch Borg & Beck single dry plate
Carburettor: Solex 32 P.B.I.-2 with bi-starter
Fuel tank: 42 liter
Electric system: Lucas 12 Volts (2x6V) 120 Ah
Ignition system: distribitor and coil
Brakes front: Girling hydraulic drums
Brakes rear: Girling hydraulic drums
Suspension front: solid axle on leaf pens, semi-elliptic leaf springs on rubber sleeves + hydraulic Woodhead-Monroe shock absorbers
Suspension rear: solid axle on leaf pens, semi-elliptic leaf springs on rubber sleeves + hydraulic Woodhead-Monroe shock absorbers
Rear axle: live semi-floating type
Differential: Hardy-Spicer Type 4.7:1
Wheels: 16 inch steel discs
Tires: 6.00 - 16
Special:
- Since 1952 Minerva fitted to the needs of the Belgian Army (ABL) all-terrain vehicles in cooperation with the Land-Rover.
- Chassis, engines, axles, powertrain and steering (Completely Knocked Down (CKD) kits) were imported from Solihull - UK and the bodies were produced by Minerva.
- The total number of military delivered Minervas were 8,440. The records of the Heritage Trust show 9,905 Minervas CKD were delivered, so the missing 1,456 vehicles went to the Police and Gendarmerie and also to some civilians.
- All vehicles were left-hand driven, the front wings were squared off and sloping (easier to produce), the bodywork was made of steel and the front grille was smaller and had the Minerva badge.
- The windscreen can be lowered onto the hood.
- The police and military versions had an spare wheel carrier on the right and an jerry can holder on the left. The front middle seat was replaced by a steel toolbox.
Land Rover 88 Series III (1971-85) Engine 2286cc S4 Petrol
Production 440,000
Registration Number A 250 SYM (London)
LAND ROVER ALBUM
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The Series III had the same body and engine options as the preceding IIa, including station wagons and the 1 Ton versions. Little changed cosmetically from the IIA to the Series III. The Series III is the most common Series vehicle, with 440,000 of the type built from 1971 to 1985. The headlights were moved to the wings on late production IIA models from 1968/9 onward (ostensibly to comply with Australian, American and Dutch lighting regulations) and remained in this position for the Series III. The traditional metal grille, featured on the Series I, II and IIA, was replaced with a plastic one for the Series III model.
Diolch am 92,712,699 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 92,712,699 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 23.04.2022 at the Bicester Spring Scramble, Bicester, Oxfordshire 158-252
Mini Cooper Utility Vehicle
Around lunch time today I wandered down to our local bakery. As I crossed the carpark behind the shops I spotted this rather unique Mini. I haven't been able to find out much about them other than that two were created by Motorline BMW in Brisbane back in 2011. This one has a badge from a Melbourne Performance Tuning Specialist and is a long way from home as it has Western Australia registration plates.
Photographed at the 66th Secretary of State Vehicle Show in Springfield, Illinois on September 12, 2015.
Please visit my collection of Motor Vehicles on Flickr where you will find over 10,000 car and truck photos organized in albums by model year, manufacturer, vehicle type, and more. This project, which began in 2008, continues to expand with new material added daily.
Land Rover 80 (Series 1) Pick-up (1948-58) Engine (original) 2000cc S4
Current engine 3528cc Rover V8
Registration Number 945 XUB (Leeds)
LAND ROVER ALBUM
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The Land Rover was conceived by the Rover Company in 1947 during the aftermath of World War II. Maurice Wilks, Rover's chief designer came up with a plan to produce a light agricultural and utility vehicle, of a similar concept to the Willys Jeep used in the war, but with an emphasis on agricultural use. The first prototype was built on a Willys Jeep chassis and used the engine and gearbox out of a Rover P3 saloon car. The bodywork was handmade out of an aluminium/magnesium alloy called Birmabright, to save on steel, which was closely rationed.
Land Rover entered production in 1948, later to be known as the Series 1, and was launched at the 1948 Amsterdam Motor Show. It was designed for farm and light industrial use, with a steel box-section chassis and an aluminium body. Originally the Land Rover was a single model offering, which from 1948 until 1951 used an 80-inch wheel base and a 1.6-litre petrol engine producing around 50 bhp. The four-speed gearbox from the Rover P3 was used, with a new two-speed transfer box. This incorporated an unusual four-wheel-drive system, with a freewheel unit (as used on several Rover cars of the time). This disengaged the front axle from the manual transmission on the overrun, allowing a form of non- permanent 4WD. A ring-pull mechanism in the driver's footwell allowed the freewheel to be locked to provide more traditional 4WD. This was a basic vehicle: tops for the doors and a roof (canvas or metal) were optional extras. In 1950, the lights moved from a position behind the grille to protruding through the grille.
During 1950, the unusual semi-permanent 4WD system was replaced with a more conventional setup, with drive to the front axle being taken through a simple dog clutch. In 1952 and 1953, a larger 2.0-litre petrol engine was fitted. he 1954 model year brought major changes with the original 80 inch wheel base replaced with an 86 inch wheel base and a 107 inch wheelbase, pick up version introduced. September 1955 saw the introduction of a four door station wagon on the 107 wheel base chassis, with seating for up to ten people. The 86-inch station wagon was a three-door, seven-seater. In mid-1956 the wheelbases were extended by 2 inches to 88 inches and 109 inches for the long wheel base chassis. In 1957 a brand new 2.0-litre diesel engine was introduced that, despite the similar capacity, was not related to the petrol engines used.
Diolch am 92,712,699 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 92,712,699 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 23.04.2022 at the Bicester Spring Scramble, Bicester, Oxfordshire 158-251
NOW IN FULL SIZE
File: 2018002-0048
Previously scaled down uploaded photo of 1162 x 778 replaced with full size 3872 x 2592 (full size of Nikon D200) photo.
Land Rover Owner International Show at the East of England Arena, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom on Saturday 15th September 2018.
About the photograph.
As a fan of tigers, whenever I seen any vehicles with tiger strips painted on them, I often admired their paintwork.
This is a Land Rover Discovery, a first generation Series I model (1989-1998).
The majority of this Discovery’s back is covered with tiger strips paintwork, while most of the front is left simply in jet black colour.
The Discovery is a series of seven-seater family SUVs, manufactured by Land Rover (later renamed as Jagar Land Rover).
The Range Rover was designed to be an everyday 4x4 that could work as either a utility vehicle or a family car, while the Series models (1948-1985) was often seen as a light agricultural and utility vehicle. However the Range Rover moved towards a more upmarket luxury vehicle, so the Discovery was intended to fill in the role the Range Rover was originally supposed to be for.
The Discovery Series I was presented during the 1989 Frankfurt Motor Show, it was based on the Range Rover, but designed to be more affordably, and as a fully off-roading everyday family car. It offered a more luggage space with the optional of adding two more seats making it a total of 7 seats.
About the Land Rover Owner International Show.
Land Rover Owner, often abbreviated as LRO, is a British monthly magazine for Land Rover enthusiasts, published by a company based in Peterborough. The full title is often Land Rover Owner International.
It first started in July 1987 by a group of East Anglian businessmen, and was a mainly black and white 40 pages magazine. By the mid-1990s, it was bought by a publishing group, and became one of the popular Land Rover magazines.
The Land Rover Owner International Show is a yearly event ran by the magazine, and usually during the weekend in September. It features many various Land Rover vehicles on display, and includes an action arena for Land Rover drivers to display their driving skills.
You are welcome to comment on my photographs, but only about the photographs, or the subject in the photographs, or your similar experience. The comment boxes are NOT adverting spaces or billboards for the groups. Comments with clickable links to groups are considered as clickbait spam and therefore will be deleted.
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Land Rover Owner International Show 2023 at Belvoir Castle, near Grantham, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Saturday 9th September 2023.
About the photograph.
The Land Rover you see in the front, the one with the number 9 on the door and the number 575 on one of the windows, is a Land Rover Discovery.
Notice the taillights are higher up, therefore this is a Discovery Series II.
It had been customised for extreme off-roading, likely by replacing the factory standard shock absorbers with aftermarket parts, also notice the extra cage bar around the roof and sides, plus the all-terrain tyres (US: tires).
The Discovery is a series of seven-seater family SUVs, manufactured by Land Rover (later renamed as Jaguar Land Rover).
The Range Rover was designed to be an everyday 4x4 that could work as either a utility vehicle or a family car, while the Series models (1948-1985) was often seen as a light agricultural and utility vehicle. However the Range Rover moved towards a more upmarket luxury vehicle, so the Discovery was intended to fill in the role the Range Rover was originally supposed to be for.
The Discovery Series I was presented during the 1989 Frankfurt Motor Show, it was based on the Range Rover, but designed to be more affordably, and as a fully off-roading everyday family car. It offered a more luggage space with the optional of adding two more seats making it a total of 7 seats.
Behind the Discovery is a heavily customised Land Rover Defender modified for extreme off-roading. I have no idea which version this is, and don’t have much information about it, only that I know it is a Defender.
The Land Rover Defender started life around 1983 as either a replacement or a total overhaul of the original Land Rover, often known as the Series Land Rover or Land Rover Series.
The Defender looked very much similar to the Series, both being boxy shaped, have similar style, and designed to work in similar way, hence some people tend to mistakenly call the original Land Rover Series as Defender.
But there is a major difference between the two, such as the Series having two plate windscreen while the Defender have one whole window. The Series used leaf spring suspension compared to the Defender having a coil spring suspension, those being the two of the many difference.
Here in the photo, both are seen showing off their off-roading abilities over some kind of a mock up rough terrain, during a live display show in the arena. The Defender is going up a balancing beam, which is basically a seesaw.
The photo was shot in colour but due to strong sunlight, a lot of dehazing option was needed, however I thought to convert them into black and white, by using Adobe Lightroom, for a more dramatic action.
About the day.
In the early morning, I woke up, got ready, and took a three hour drive to Belvoir Castle, but that morning was already very warm, with a cloudless sky and the sun beating down on the land.
By the time I got there, I was already feeling very hot. I wore light coloured t-shirt, lightweight trousers, and a lot of sun cream, plus plenty of water.
Sadly, after about a couple of hours, I became a bit overheated in the burning sky, there weren’t much shades around, and it was kind of a heatwave of some sort.
So I had to give up, and return home to avoid getting a heat stroke, I only took like about 400 shots, and that was all I could manage.
When I got home, I had to have a cool down and a rest, and thankfully managed to stay well.
Land Rover Owner International Show.
Land Rover Owner, often abbreviated as LRO, is a British monthly magazine for Land Rover enthusiasts, published by a company based in Peterborough. The full title is often Land Rover Owner International.
It first started in July 1987 by a group of East Anglian businessmen, and was a mainly black and white 40 pages magazine. By the mid-1990s, it was bought by a publishing group, and became one of the popular Land Rover magazines.
The Land Rover Owner International Show is a yearly event ran by the magazine, and usually during the weekend in September. It features many various Land Rover vehicles on display, and includes an action arena for Land Rover drivers to display their driving skills.
You are welcome to comment on my photographs, but only about the photographs, or the subject in the photographs, or your similar experience. The comment boxes are NOT adverting spaces or billboards for the groups. Comments with clickable links to groups are considered as clickbait spam and therefore will be deleted.
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Land Rover Owner International Show 2023 at Belvoir Castle, near Grantham, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Saturday 9th September 2023.
About the photograph.
This is a heavily customised Land Rover Defender modified for extreme off-roading. I have no idea which version this is, and I did not buy a programme guide, so I don’t have much information about it, only that I know it is a Defender.
Here in the photograph, it looked like it got stuck or something, and if you notice in the front of the car, is a man wearing an Union Flag T-Shirt.
He is seen pulling out the cable from the winch, with the aim to attach it to another Land Rover, for the purpose of pulling it out of a jam.
The Land Rover Defender started life around 1983 as either a replacement or a total overhaul of the original Land Rover, often known as the Series Land Rover or Land Rover Series.
The Defender looked very much similar to the Series, both being boxy shaped, have similar style, and designed to work in similar way, hence some people tend to mistakenly call the original Land Rover Series as Defender.
But there is a major difference between the two, such as the Series having two plate windscreen while the Defender have one whole window. The Series used leaf spring suspension compared to the Defender having a coil spring suspension, those being the two of the many difference.
The photo was shot in colour but due to strong sunlight, a lot of dehazing option was needed, however I thought to convert them into black and white, by using Adobe Lightroom, for a more dramatic action.
More action photos of the man in the Union Flag T-shirt will be uploaded in the near future.
About the day.
In the early morning, I woke up, got ready, and took a three hours drive to Belvoir Castle, but that morning was already very warm, with a cloudless sky and the sun beating down on the land.
By the time I got there, I was already feeling very hot. I worn light coloured t-shirt, lightweight trousers, and a lot of sun cream, plus plenty of water.
Sadly, after about a couple of hours, I became a bit overheated in the burning sky, there weren’t much shades around, and it was kind of a heatwave of some sort.
So I had to give up, and return home to avoid getting a heat stroke, I only took like about 400 shots, and that was all I could manage.
When I got home, I had to have a cool down and a rest, and thankfully managed to stay well.
Land Rover Owner International Show.
Land Rover Owner, often abbreviated as LRO, is a British monthly magazine for Land Rover enthusiasts, published by a company based in Peterborough. The full title is often Land Rover Owner International.
It first started in July 1987 by a group of East Anglian businessmen, and was a mainly black and white 40 pages magazine. By the mid-1990s, it was bought by a publishing group, and became one of the popular Land Rover magazines.
The Land Rover Owner International Show is a yearly event ran by the magazine, and usually during the weekend in September. It features many various Land Rover vehicles on display, and includes an action arena for Land Rover drivers to display their driving skills.
You are welcome to comment on my photographs, but only about the photographs, or the subject in the photographs, or your similar experience. The comment boxes are NOT adverting spaces or billboards for the groups. Comments with clickable links to groups are considered as clickbait spam and therefore will be deleted.
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At The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
This photograph shows a couple of re-enactors dressed as Second World War American soldiers, often nicknamed as G.I., sitting in their Willys MB or Ford GPW jeep. Note another re-enactor as an American soldier, kneeing on the other side of the jeep, near the rear.
The photographs were converted to black and white in Adobe Lightroom and cropped for a more dramatic action, and as homage to the WWII era where black and white photos are more common than colour photos.
The Willys MB or the Ford GPW jeep is formally called US Army Truck, ¼-ton, 4x4, Command Reconnaissance, and more commonly known simply as the Jeep.
When Germany was starting to arm itself, they manufactured their own light multi-role utility vehicle known as the Volkswagen Kubelwagen. The Americans decided they want a similar light multi-role off-roading vehicle to do a similar job.
A number of automobile companies joined together with the US Army, to come up with an idea. The companies included theAmerican Bantam Car Company, Willys-Overland, and Ford Motor Co.
They started the design work in 1940 and lasted into the early 1942. Unlike the German vehicles which had to be built to specifications approved by the German military, the Americans opt for vehicles built in part using commercially available parts, and in part to military requirements, making it possible for the vehicle and spare parts to be manufactured by various car manufacturers.
( Side note: This is the reason the Americans were able to churn out a lot of M4 Sherman tanks in high numbers (approx. 49,000), compared to the Germany building only approx. 1,300 Tiger I tanks. )
Between 1941 to 1945, over 647,000 jeeps were built, of which 359,000 by Willys and 277,000 by Ford.
The jeep’s standard specifications are the same for both the Willys MB and the Ford GPW models.
The jeep uses a 2.2 litre engine offering up to 60hp, with 3 speed gearbox, and four wheel drive. The total weight without fuel is 2,337 lbs. The jeep could go up to a maximum speed of 65mph on the road, and an optional range of up to 300 miles.
It became the most iconic military vehicle of the Second World War, and had been offered to various Allies, including Soviet Union.
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
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Three utility tricycles in Bacolod City parked next to a local, political statement written in black paint. Taken on the island of Negros Occidental, in the central Visayas region of The Philippines.
File: 2023007-0530
At The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
he photograph shows the two re-enactors dressed as Second World War American soldiers, out of their Willys MB or Ford GPW jeep, with their weapons ready, and in action. One of them is carrying a Bazooka seen on the right, while the other standing next to the jeep, is using the M1 Garand rifle.
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The photographs were converted to black and white in Adobe Lightroom and cropped for a more dramatic action, and as homage to the WWII era where black and white photos are more common than colour photos.
The Willys MB or the Ford GPW jeep is formally called US Army Truck, ¼-ton, 4x4, Command Reconnaissance, and more commonly known simply as the Jeep.
When Germany was starting to arm itself, they manufactured their own light multi-role utility vehicle known as the Volkswagen Kubelwagen. The Americans decided they want a similar light multi-role off-roading vehicle to do a similar job.
A number of automobile companies joined together with the US Army, to come up with an idea. The companies included theAmerican Bantam Car Company, Willys-Overland, and Ford Motor Co.
They started the design work in 1940 and lasted into the early 1942. Unlike the German vehicles which had to be built to specifications approved by the German military, the Americans opt for vehicles built in part using commercially available parts, and in part to military requirements, making it possible for the vehicle and spare parts to be manufactured by various car manufacturers.
( Side note: This is the reason the Americans were able to churn out a lot of M4 Sherman tanks in high numbers (approx. 49,000), compared to the Germany building only approx. 1,300 Tiger I tanks. )
Between 1941 to 1945, over 647,000 jeeps were built, of which 359,000 by Willys and 277,000 by Ford.
The jeep’s standard specifications are the same for both the Willys MB and the Ford GPW models.
The jeep uses a 2.2 litre engine offering up to 60hp, with 3 speed gearbox, and four wheel drive. The total weight without fuel is 2,337 lbs. The jeep could go up to a maximum speed of 65mph on the road, and an optional range of up to 300 miles.
It became the most iconic military vehicle of the Second World War, and had been offered to various Allies, including Soviet Union.
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
You are free and welcome to comment on my photograph, about the photograph itself, or about the subject in the photo, or about your similar experience. The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard to promote any Groups. If you want to promote the groups, do it in YOUR own Photo Page or YOUR own Photostream!
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Land Rover Owner International Show at the East of England Arena, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Saturday 15th September 2018.
About the photograph.
This is a Land Rover Series IIB Forward Control. For more details about the vehicles, see section titled About the overall subject below.
Here, this Series IIB FC is outfitted to serve as a fire engine, most likely to be an airport fire engine, rather than a general fire brigade one. This is just a guess based on the reason it’s painted in white rather than red.
I don’t have an in-depth information about this very vehicle, I’ve no idea who owns this, when did it first enter services, and so on.
Here, this white Series IIB FC fire engine is seen parading around the muddy truck, around the arena, for spectators to see.
About the overall subject.
Land Rover Series IIB Forward Control.
With special thanks to @DanielWarden for pointing out to me that this is a Series IIB FC, not as I mistakenly thought, a 101 FC.
In the beginning, the Series IIA Forward Control is basically a Land Rover Series IIA 109 wheelbase 4x4 car.
They simply remove the body and the cockpit, leaving generally the engine and chassis, then fit a cab over the engine in order to give more space behind the cab, thus giving the illustration that they turned the car into a truck.
Point of note: While the cab is positioned above the engine, the steering wheel is positioned slightly ahead of the front wheels, hence the term Forward Control.
It was first launched in 1962, with a 2.25-litre petrol engine, and 109 in wheelbase. About up to 2500 were made, most have a utility body, but a lot of them had customised bodywork done.
Later on in 1966, they made the Series IIB Forward Control, with a 2.25-litre diesel engine as an option. Heavy modifications were done to the model, to improve it, including increasing the wheelbase to 110” and production finally ended in 1974
Land Rover Owner International Show.
Land Rover Owner, often abbreviated as LRO, is a British monthly magazine for Land Rover enthusiasts, published by a company based in Peterborough. The full title is often Land Rover Owner International.
It first started in July 1987 by a group of East Anglian businessmen, and was a mainly black and white 40 pages magazine. By the mid-1990s, it was bought by a publishing group, and became one of the popular Land Rover magazines.
The Land Rover Owner International Show is a yearly event ran by the magazine, and usually during the weekend in September. It features many various Land Rover vehicles on display, and includes an action arena for Land Rover drivers to display their driving skills.
You are welcome to comment on my photographs, but only about the photographs, or the subject in the photographs, or your similar experience. The comment boxes are NOT adverting spaces or billboards for the groups. Comments with clickable links to groups are considered as clickbait spam and therefore will be deleted.
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Wartime in the Vale 2022 event. Ashdown Camp, at Ashdown Farm, off Badsey Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 25th of June 2022.
About this photograph.
Those are former British Army Land Rover 101 Forward Control.
The photograph of those two 101FC trucks was captured at a re-enactment event called Wartime in the Vale near Evesham. They were on display along with many other former military vehicles of various eras, from WWII to the Cold War.
The Forward Control was a light utility vehicle manufactured by Land Rover for the British Army, and was not for civilians. The only way for civilians to buy them was to buy ex-army ones from military surplus whenever the 101FC were retired from the services.
In the 1960s, the British Army requested a new gun tractor designed to tow a large field gun, specially a howitzer, with plenty of space for a ton of ammunition and other equipment. It needs to be designed to have the engine underside or thereabouts, in order to eliminate the bonnet at the front, thus reducing unused space in transport aircraft.
Development of the 101FC started around 1967, with a team led by Norman Busby, and production started in 1972.
The engine is built under the cab, and slightly to the rear, hence the name of Forward Control. Many of them were designed with a soft top, but later some models were rebuilt with hard top, and serves as ambulances or other roles.
Production lasted until about 1978, and by the late 1990s they were being replaced with the Pinzgauer family of high mobility utility vehicles.
About 30 of the 101FC were converted into a futuristic taxi for the 1995 sci-fi movie called Judge Dredd, starring Sylvester Stallone. Some are still in driveable condition and can be seen at Land Rover events.
About the event.
Wartime in the Vale is an annual re-enactment event, held at the former Second World War camp, next to the town of Evesham, during the summer. The event is organised by the Military Vehicle Trust – South Midlands Area.
The event is held during the weekend, and believed to have at least more than 500 military vehicles of various eras, but mostly of First and Second World Wars, on display as well as re-enactment events in the main arena, including blank firing of weapons. They even have a flypast over the area.
The Ashdown Camp is a 40 acres site, with some old WWII era buildings, mainly huts, located near the Ashdown Farm, just to the east of Evesham.
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Located near Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.
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Explore #334 on February 16, 2014.
Photographed at the 29th Annual Nostalgic Indoor Invitational Auto Show at Avanti's Dome in Pekin, Illinois on March 30, 2013. The show is presented by the Early Ford V-8 Club of America Regional Group #51.
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Car: Land Rover Defender 130 crewcab.
Date of first registration: 26th April 2002.
Registration region: Brighton.
Latest recorded mileage: 85,009 (MOT 3rd December 2020).
Last V5 issued: 30th December 2014.
Date taken: 30th December 2020.
Album: Street Spots
Land Rover Ser.IIA SWB (1961-71) Engine 2286cc (petrol) S4
Registration Number BVE 255 B (Cambridgeshire)
LAND ROVER ALBUM
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The series II and IIA are difficult to distinguish with only minor cosmetic differances the most significant mechanical change being the introduction of the new 2.25 ltr Diesel engine which after 1967 included a 2.6-litre inline six-cylinder petrol engine . They came in a wide range of body styles and on a SWB 88 inch or LWB 109 inch chassis. This being a 1970 SWB soft top model.
In 1969 (February) home market models had the head lamps moved into the wings and sill panels were redesigned to be shallower a few months later
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Shot 17.04.2022 Weston Park (Classic Car Show), Weston-under-Lizard, Salop 157-186