Thread: Snowy Mtn Hydron Scheme Series 1s

Originally Posted by dennisS1

exploration companies.
There is a very interesting pic of two Land Rovers been used in Northern SA a 107/109 and a 86/88 the interesting bit is the LW is left hand drive, the exploration Company was probably US but LW S1 weren’t big in the US.
Dennis

PS at a show in SA a few years back the first LC to Australia was on show. 1958 model.
When I ask if I might park my 1948 next to it for a pic, Toythingy answer was NO. Apparently that might prove that LC's weren’t the first 4WD in Australia.

The company involved would have probably have been Prakla (German) or Compagnie General de Geophysique (French). Both were major Landrover users in the fifties and sixties and both worked in South Australia. I don't remember CGG having LHD Landrovers in Australia, but it is possible. I do remember Prakla having LHD Landrovers, distinguished by, unusually for the time, having all their vehicles white.

While some US companies used Landrovers in the early sixties, all the ones I can remember were locally purchased and hence RHD.

John

Here's a link to a brief descrpition of the tiny Japanese Kurogane 4X4 .

Type 95 - Japanese Scout Car

Tatra, of the former Checkaslovakia ( cant spell it ) also built a neat little 4X4 field car in the 1930's .. it was trialled by the British War Office .

Both of these cars preceeded the U.S. Jeep by a few years.