Does LED paint glow when power is applied?
Seriously though, I suspect that the factory pain on Landrovers has never contained lead, although some of the aftermarket ones probably did. Unless I am mistaken, the early Landrovers used cellulose paint and later acrylic, neither of which normally contained lead.
Bur lead oxides were almost universally used in house paints until they were gradually phased out for finish coats from the 1960s as titanium dioxide became cheaper - it does not yellow with exposure to sulphur like paint lead does. But red lead remained the primer of choice for wood until the 1970s because it is better than anything else - partly because it is poisonous to fungi!
So house paint pre about 1975 has to be assumed to contain lead. This was exacerbated by the proliferation of power tools about the same time, that very efficiently converted paint to fine dust! (Same reason asbestos cement became a lot more dangerous)
John
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
You just need to wear a mask when you are taking that led paint off the Land Rovers. 
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