Thread: ROYAL VISIT 1954 and landrovers

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One never knows what they might have sitting in the yard hey thank you

Originally Posted by 123rover50

Happened on this old thread and put the numbers through CalVIN. They cam out as CKD Home Market not Export.

On the REMLR site it quotes the Royal Tour 86,s as 4716 0045 to 0050
not the same numbers as the post above.
Can anyone clarify this?

Didiman

One of the many errors with CalVIN. There are no such models as Home Market CKD, although part of the reason for the error is a transcription by me where I transposed the "1" and the "6". The numbers therefore are 47160021 through 47160024 all the other information is correct.

Given the similarities with the numbers on the vehicles in the REMLR records, and understanding the pace of the 1954 Royal Tour with 2,000 miles by road in 207 individual trips and visits to all capitals excluding Darwin. It is therefore likely that there were a set of Royal Tour Land Rovers pre-positioned in all capitals and handled by each of the Master Distributors . Nevertheless the picture at the head of this thread refers to the Sydney Daily Telegraph article so likely depicts one of the Grenville Motors vehicles mentioned.

Whether the image below taken at the MCG is of one of the same Land Rovers delivered to Regent Motors for the 1954 tour is unknown. It could be the event where 70,000 ex-servicemen were presented to the Queen during the tour or a later image taken at the 1956 Olympics.




CKD are all export models the code for a 1954 86" CKD RHD is 4766????

OK . Thanks for that.Where do those numbers come from? The 47160021 through 24 ones?
Didiman

They come from the Grenville Motors Allocations Books. These were the hand written registers of all vehicles distributed by the NSW master distributor Grenville Motors, the sister company of Regent Motors in Melbourne. Both were LNC Industries companies, as was the PMC factory at Enfield NSW.

The books were saved from destruction by Arthur Garthon a Land Rover dealer in Penshurst NSW. (Also owner of one of the vehicles in the Peking to Paris reinactment on TV. AULRO member "Mr LR Jnr" is his grandson)

I have a copy with Arthur's permission but he was unhappy about copies being widely distributed, although a number of other copies exist.

I recall a brown one existing at the rear of a certain workshop/parts outlet in Sydney in the 80's.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

CKD are all export models the code for a 1954 86" CKD RHD is 4766????

Is that Barry Humphries in the passenger seat? Bob

Dont you love the way everyone wore a hat.
Why dont they wear hats now?
I do.

Didiman