I remember a newspaper photo of an elephant Land Rover was pinned on the wall behind the counter of John Craddock's shop. We were both members of the Staffs & Shrops LRC back in the 70s.
In 1996 I saw something like that at a garage in the Scots highlands. Bright yellow with 'forestry' signage. With it was a Landy on tank tracks. Still no mention of the Aussie designed and built Perentie. 🤔
Have seen a 110 In Vanuatu (SouthWest Pacific) set up as a field welding vehicle, with a "LandRover" badged welder mounted between the front seats. presumably belt driven from the dropbox. Very vetsatile!
Another great short thanks. I don't suppose BMW wanted Land Rover for innovation like the farmers friend. Because they wanted to make their own X5 competitor to the Rangy.
An X plate 6 wheel drive land rover farm vehicle with an aluminium flat bed body. Used for spraying with a 40 foot boom, for water carrying with a 2000 litre bowser and micro granular spreader. Drive for the equipment was by direct drive of a hydraulic motor from the front crank. The sixth axle was driven by a transverse gearbox off the middle axle. Driven by a 2.2 diesel with a turbo. This was adapted by a company from Trumpet in Herefordshire. I have no picture, sorry
I think That Farmer's Friend might have been killed off by BMW, maybe due to them having a hissy fit when VAG managed to buy the rights to build Rolls Royce and Bentleys car. BMW made up a cock and bull story about Rover losing them loads of money. The rest is history. I still remember seeing articles back in early '90's of VW's new Beetle. That took a very long time to develop before it came onto the market. Also if BMW was dire financial problems how can they afford to build a Rolls Royce factory near Goodwood? Riddle me that. Great video.
They'd definitely make it onto a cool conversions list, however there are just a few too many out there to make the unique list. If you want us to make a conversions video, we would definitely look into it!
