The Telegraph's Best Cars Ever | 5 - Land Rover Series 1 

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It was first sketched in the summer of 1947 in the sand on a beach in Anglesey where Maurice Wilks, Rover’s chief designer, and his brother Spencer,
the company’s managing director, were holidaying. They were looking for something to tide over Rover’s road-car production which was
hampered by steel shortages. The prototype was called “Centre Steer” and was influenced by and used bits of the Willys Jeep.
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