you just got to love them the posters that is
the lland rover (the series ones)were copies of the willis jeep
and everything else has evolved from that series one
I'd take issue with that one Rob
I was always told by my instructors
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The famous LR was a post war agricultural vehicle designed to be able to pull a single furrow plough as well as other small implenemts and go cross country ..... designed as such to enable small farmers to have only one vehicle instead of a tractor and a utility vehicle so we could quickly come back to a sound agricultural productivity after the war.
The hollow box upswept wish bone chassis idea had been around for years , so had four wheel drive , tractor joints , PTO's , transfer boxes and ally panels .
The LR was nowt like the Jeep and was far more reliable ( Oh to have it as reliable nowadays )
In my apprenticeship training days as a boy solidier doing an electro-mechanical theme we were told that the military became interested in the landrover to replace the Austin Champ which was a fantastic vehicle but very very expensive to produce and maintain .
I repaired my last Champ in 1968 .