Thread: Series 1 Tub

Originally Posted by Ratchet

Hi, I have a trailer using a series 1 tub. The trailer part is trash but, although not perfect, the tub is not to bad.

Are restorers interested or should I send it to scrap?

Please see if you can save it. It would be a shame to see your tub end up as scrap. Do you know what model it's off? There are 3 basic types with some minor differences over the years. The 80 inch tubs are quite short and have a rearward slope on the front of the tub where it meets the back of the door. The 86 and 88 tubs are at a right angle at the front where it meets the door. The 107 and 109 tubs are also at a right angle at the front and have a joined 2 piece side panel which is obviously longer. If you could identify it, or post some pictures, that would help someone to decide they need it for their battered Landy. I have a 107 with a absolutely destroyed tub, so could be interested.

Mike, 5380

Originally Posted by 5380

Do you know what model it's off? There are 3 basic types with some minor differences over the years. The 80 inch tubs are quite short and have a rearward slope on the front of the tub where it meets the back of the door. The 86 and 88 tubs are at a right angle at the front where it meets the door. The 107 and 109 tubs are also at a right angle at the front and have a joined 2 piece side panel which is obviously longer.

Mike, 5380

Using your information it will be either the 86 or 88.

Originally Posted by 5380

If you could identify it, or post some pictures, that would help someone to decide they need it for their battered Landy. Mike, 5380

I will post some pictures on the weekend.

Originally Posted by 5380

Please see if you can save it. It would be a shame to see your tub end up as scrap.Mike, 5380

I would prefer it used to keep another one going.

Originally Posted by Ratchet

Using your information it will be either the 86 or 88.



I will post some pictures on the weekend.



I would prefer it used to keep another one going.

Thanks!
Some pictures would be very helpful. The 86/88 tubs are basically the same because the extra 2 inches were added at the front. I imagine there are more than a few Landies out there that have had their rear ends mashed and bashed over their working career.
5380

Originally Posted by 5380

Thanks!
Some pictures would be very helpful. The 86/88 tubs are basically the same because the extra 2 inches were added at the front. I imagine there are more than a few Landies out there that have had their rear ends mashed and bashed over their working career.
5380

Here are some photos. As you will see it is boxed in at the moment. I will try to get some better photos.

S1 Tub - Album on Imgur

S1 Tub - Album on Imgur

Originally Posted by Ratchet

Here are some photos. As you will see it is boxed in at the moment. I will try to get some better photos.

S1 Tub - Album on Imgur

S1 Tub - Album on Imgur

Thanks Ratchet! It looks like a 107 tub, but I can't see the vertical panel join on the side.
5380

Originally Posted by 5380

Thanks Ratchet! It looks like a 107 tub, but I can't see the vertical panel join on the side.
5380

I found the join panel. It is 4" wide centred in the wheel arch. Added a couple more photos about it.

S1 Tub Part 2 - Album on Imgur

Definitely worth salvaging.

Definitely either 107 or 109 tub. These are not very robust* and most are in pretty poor condition. From what can be seen this one looks to be in very good condition compared to most and is very well worth preserving.

*When this tub was designed it is pretty clear that Rover had not come to terms with the fact that users routinely worked on the theory "if it fits, it is not overloaded", and (almost) all Landrovers were routinely overloaded and expected to perform just as well offroad as did the original 80". By the time the Series 2 had been designed, it seems that Rover had come to terms with this and beefed the tub up accordingly. The Series 1 lwb tub easily damaged whether by loads such a firewood, posts, fencing materials (routinely dropping in a couple of rolls of wire, one of hingejoint, and fifty steel posts....) or hitting things, or simply by vibration from travelling as fast as possible over corrugations.

The first 107s were described by Rover as "a conventional pickup truck that can go where others fail", rather thhan a greater load carrying version of the 80", which is how most buyers treated it.