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The global event celebrated Land Rover&#39;s innovation in technology, showcasing cars both new and old on the company&#39;s original testing ground. The HUE 166, the first ever Land Rover made in 1948 was there, as was the new Defender LXV Special Edition, ...
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. The HUE 166, the first ever Land Rover made in 1948 was there........]

Hello from Brisbane - not wanting to be a pedant, Lord knows there are enough of them here, but this piece of journalese is not strictly correct.

From my understanding, HUE166, fine machine that it is, was not the 'first Land Rover ever built'. There were several pre production models, including the famed centre steer model, that preceded HUE166. It is probably more correctly identified as the oldest Land Rover in their collection and possibly still running. I seem to recall that its chassis number was no.4 although they were not necessarily assembled in numerical order.

Cheers,