Thread: Land Rovers Army 2nd Choice

I know that was bullship...It was called "exercise perentie" and it occurred in 1983-84 there was a 110, 110x6wheel turbo (our favourite) which spent most its time towing the jeep wrangler as the jeep kept busting axles, a toyota LC personnel wgn , a mercedes 4x4 pile of crap, didn't even have Nissan patrol on the selection, we drove our leg from Woodside S.A to leigh creek S.A for 3 weeks gave them all crap and drove back for our reporting on which we reckoned was best..I loved and still do the Defenders and have the pics somewhere to prove it...

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Mastiff was a much lighter class of truck.

But from memory it met the spec whereas the Mack didn't.
They also did tests on the Mastiff making them airportable, don't think that ever happened to the Mack, still we ended up with 1 1/2 Mastiff trucks that we kept going for 20years? when it was replaced with a MAN


Leyland Mastiff


Martyn

dirtydawg,
i just did some digging thru my vast pile of old 4wd mags, in the winter 1983 edition of 4x4 Australia there's a big story on the development of the 110 4x4 and 6x6 vehicles at JRA.
they said the army trials would take approximately 12 months from september with eight personnel with no mechanical knowledge (that's why you were chosen).
after south oz they were heading to tully in FNQ for hot-wet testing.
my vehicle was released to the Navy in december 1984 from rolfe classic in canberra. it was used primarily as a military police vehicle but was used on various excercises to test its versatility and longevity.
"project perentie" is described in detail in the Jan/Feb edition of Bushdriver magazine. 1 onne payload class had the jeep AM10, the land rover 110 and the merc 300GD. 2 tonne class was the landy 6x6 and the unimog U1300. the first reference they made was the sept/oct edition of 1984.
i still remember seeing the 6wd suspension system being tested up at oxford falls on a work day i had off.
i can scan these stories and send them if you want, just p.m me.

Originally Posted by mrapocalypse

Ok for those who love a conspiracy theory...

My Nis**n driving mate reckons that when he was in the Army transport unit? in about 1978-80 (or something!!!) they did the trials and land Rover came a distant second to toyota and that the only reason the Army didn't go with Toyota was that "The RSL stepped in and Said no to a japanese vehicle in the Austrlian Army"

I said RUBBISH!

Was i right??????

If you believe it, it isnt lying because you believed it and even if it was not right How would he know if you knew?