Leyland Brothers early 70s

[discoute]

Who remembers young leylands crossing a flooded Jandine river on the way to the cape, in a series 2 or 2a shortie.

The jardine was in flood, with a winch line attached to the other side one of the landies was winched across the river by the other with a snatch block, the oils were replaced as was the fuel in the tank and the trip to the cape was completed, returning in the same fashion. my oldest memory of landrovers.

Who remembers this EARLY SEVENTIES.

glen

[dobbo]

sounds very impressive, surely you could still get the video footage from somewhere?

[numpty]

Who remembers this EARLY SEVENTIES.

glen

You are not going to find how old we all are that easily

Numpty's Missus

[discoute]

sounds very impressive, surely you could still get the video footage from somewhere?

Yep should be around, but I would 'nt know where to start.

glen

[djam1]

I would like to see some of the footage from Across the Top by Malcolm Douglas. I too remember the Leyland Brothers visiting my school in the 1970s it was an event that inspired my respect for Land Rovers.
Malcolm Douglas made Across the Top I think in the 1960s it was a fantastic testimony of the strength of early Land Rovers.

[gruntfuttock]

I remember both of them.......






Am I really that old?

[rangieman]

i remember the show :eek:

[one_iota]

Who remembers young leylands crossing a flooded Jandine river on the way to the cape, in a series 2 or 2a shortie.

The jardine was in flood, with a winch line attached to the other side one of the landies was winched across the river by the other with a snatch block, the oils were replaced as was the fuel in the tank and the trip to the cape was completed, returning in the same fashion. my oldest memory of landrovers.

Who remembers this EARLY SEVENTIES.

glen

I was an impressionable adolescent....they are responsible for my purchase of Land Rover in my middle age-mid life crisis...I got the red sports car out of my system early.

[discoute]

You are not going to find how old we all are that easily

Numpty's Missus

:wasntme:

glen

[DiscoDave]

There's a DVD available on Ebay...

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[dobbo]

Yep should be around, but I would 'nt know where to start.

glen

Try DVD EZY it might be a go.

[discoute]

I was an impressionable adolescent....they are responsible for my purchase of Land Rover in my middle age-mid life crisis...I got the red sports car out of my system early.

My wife has the red sports car, She won't let me drive it. last time I destroyed the auto.lol I have my landies.

glen

[discoute]

I'm going to ebay see if Ican get one.

glen

[dobbo]

Were they on the ABC?
I checked the ABC and DVDEZY , no joy.

Surely with the amount of money that they owed the could get some money on releasing there footage to DVD (If they still own it, or ever did)

[Redback]

There's a DVD available on Ebay...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c137/Rimmer8/Land%20Rover/LeylandBrosDVD.jpg

I remember that, i watched it on Channel NBN 3 Newcastle when the Leyland Brothers first started, late 60s if memory serves me.

Baz.

[one_iota]

I remember that, i watched it on Channel NBN 3 Newcastle when the Leyland Brothers first started, late 60s if memory serves me.

Baz.

Baz....you are worth your weight in Land Rovers ;)

I remember a Leyland Bros send up on ABC Radio.... was it the Naked Vicar Show...Their expedition began something like this:

"We backed out of our drive in Acacia Road Newcastle and were immediately stranded on the median strip"

[dobbo]

http://shopping.ninemsn.com.au/noresults/shp/'text=leyland+brothers

DVD on ebay and 2 Leyland Brothers T shirts

[barryj]

It's a shame they won't show these old shows on tele. They are probably too long with the ad breaks these days. I watched a show the other night, from 8pm to 8:30pm there was 5 minutes of show then 4 minutes of ads during the time.

Just look at a series of 24 on dvd and see what time is lost in the ad breaks. 4 and a half minutes per ad break. Shame! They need more competition. After all the population of Aus has increased a lot and how many more commercial stations are there now compared to the 60's!

Well that's my gripe for now, back to the post!

[numpty]

More info and pics of leyland Brothers trip in 1966

http://remlr.com/swb/wece.html

Numpty's Missus

[harry]

travel around, travel around, travel around the countryside, ask the leyland, ask the leyland, ask the leyland brothers, buggering land rover diffs, ask the leyland brothers.
every time i watched the show mike or mal had broken a diff, well it seems like it!
rough young kiwis!
what about mrs mike and mal, they got shown off a bit, sorta raised the sales of their filums atit, err a bit.

[one_iota]

travel around, travel around, travel around the countryside, ask the leyland, ask the leyland, ask the leyland brothers, buggering land rover diffs, ask the leyland brothers.
every time i watched the show mike or mal had broken a diff, well it seems like it!
rough young kiwis!
what about mrs mike and mal, they got shown off a bit, sorta raised the sales of their filums atit, err a bit.


"Babbling all over the countryside..... ask the Leyland Brothers"

[discoute]

hell am I that old I remember all that.

glen

[DiscoDave]

All... I can... remember...
about... their.... shows...
is...
they talked....
slow.

[dobbo]

This link has the names and years of their films

http://www.answers.com/leyland%20brothers

Considering these guys were such a big part of aussie 4wd and Land rover history, would it be possible to start a forum on them?

[scrambler]

hell am I that old I remember all that.

glen
You should. You've been on this forum since 1970 :eek:

[rangieman]

traveled all over the countryside buggered it up in a 4wd ask the leyland brothers:eek:

[numpty]

travel around, travel around, travel around the countryside, ask the leyland, ask the leyland, ask the leyland brothers, buggering land rover diffs, ask the leyland brothers.
every time i watched the show mike or mal had broken a diff, well it seems like it!
rough young kiwis!
what about mrs mike and mal, they got shown off a bit, sorta raised the sales of their filums atit, err a bit.

We must all know different versions....
Traveled all over the countryside, ask the Leyland Brothers, buggered it up with a 4 wheel drive, ask the Leyland Brothers"

[Blknight.aus]

Oh god.... I remeber all of that stuff... Im not even thirty, stop making me feel my age already......

"The dawdled all over the counrty side, breaking down in Landrover four wheel drives. Tow, Tow Tow the Layland brothers."


Although my personal favorite was Rolf harris's effort on the kenedy track up the east coast.

the jingle out of the ad breaks will always be in my mind...

"we'll make our own way back, along old kenedys track"

and the quote on the track itself...

"some of the pot holes were so big, they themselves had potholes inside them."

[Reads90]

Being a pom i did not know who the Leyland brothers were. It was my wife that told me who they were after seeing that an advert on TV .She was ****ed that they were in Toyotas and not Land Rovers. They were the people that got her into like land rovers.
When she first mentioned the leyland brothers i thought she meant the Wilks Brothers:D

BTW if you are a Landy nut, a really good read is the Len Beadall books. Had great fun reading them as i went around Aus. Some of the things they got up to were mad

[sumo]

Who remembers young leylands crossing a flooded Jandine river on the way to the cape, in a series 2 or 2a shortie.

The jardine was in flood, with a winch line attached to the other side one of the landies was winched across the river by the other with a snatch block, the oils were replaced as was the fuel in the tank and the trip to the cape was completed, returning in the same fashion. my oldest memory of landrovers.

Who remembers this EARLY SEVENTIES.

glen

Hi i have a book on their expeditions in that era (Off the Beaten Track)

What amazes me is the size of the mud tyres they had on those landys way back then,:D

Sumo

[VladTepes]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300027132713

the ebay listing for the dvd.

If anyone bids make sure they post hereso none of the rest of us outbid / compete. Assuming, of course, that the winner agrees to furnish copies....

[westy]

Members of the LROCV have just completed a re-enactment of the West -East Crossing (Wheels Across a Wilderness) and Mal Leyland accompanied them for the trip.

[JamesH]

Is my memory playing cruel tricks on me or was Malcolm Douglas always a big Toyota fan?

Meanwhile I happened to be watching ABC-TV yesterday arvo (channel surfing after theMotoGP) and ended up watching a doco on the Burma raliroad. Note to self: When they finally kill off Land Rover, get a Jeep, or a Hummer or give up 4WDs altogether.

[JDNSW]

Members of the LROCV have just completed a re-enactment of the West -East Crossing (Wheels Across a Wilderness) and Mal Leyland accompanied them for the trip.

I appear in the book they wrote about that trip - just as they were about to start across I drove out of the desert and stopped to give them advice (mainly to dump half the junk they were carrying - this is why they broke bits) and offer them the hospitality of our camp.
John

[boggo]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300027132713

the ebay listing for the dvd.

If anyone bids make sure they post hereso none of the rest of us outbid / compete. Assuming, of course, that the winner agrees to furnish copies....

no worries,we should establish a fighting fund:D

[Blknight.aus]

did someone mention naked vicar? I have the son of naked vicar on cd....

It still gets played ever month or so, and theres no swearing so its kidsafe.

[DeeJay]

Who thinks the Leyland Brothers did any favours to landrovers????

I bought my first Landie around the time the 16mm doco found its way to TV -(1969)--- all of a sudden everyone was a landie "expert"and the number of people who were convinced that they were unreliable was pretty obvious, particularly as mine was painted red too:mad: .

From memory, on the film, the Bros cursed the vehicles, never once admitting they were the ones to blame for the breakages.

Sadly, I reckon the Leyland bros did a great disservice to the name that continues to this day...

David

[Quiggers]

I remember them as a young impressionable kid. Probably why I wanted to get into travelling to remote Aussie.

One of the brothers, as far as I know, has the entire collection which was aired on tv - and sells them to whoever is interested.

Do a google Leyland Bros. and see what happens.

I recall the Cape and EW crossing trips and the boys repairing huge paddle type tyres with rubber goo. And carrying far too much gear.

My parents took me to a hall to see a movie made by Malcolm Douglas, it may have been 'across the top', which he did in a big yankee motor, (a '48 Buick?) but didn't take an axe. Pretty interesting stuff, tho..

Cheers, GQ