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Should this thread be in the Land Rover History section?

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Should this thread be in the Land Rover History section?

I would say no, because it is the history of individual vehicles. Not Land Rover History or interesting history of particular Land Rovers, but I have moved the thread out of Series 1 into the Series Landy root pinnacle.

thanks for this. My 57 series 1 had "sent to Regent Motors, Melbourne June 57" on its details when I enquired at Gaydon. I asked someone what this meant and they said they (RM) were the wholesalers , PMC would have put it together. So its interesting to know that Regents actually put them together.
cheers,
D

Hi Diana,

I was hoping you could also help me out with my 1971 sIIa station wagon!

I have heard it could be ex police of forestry. Have asked around local clubs etc and no recognition from long time landy owners of the vehicle.

Vin: 35200879G

some notes from previous owner;

body type: 837, series 109837

chassis # 241-354

Cheers,

Nick

Firstly it is not a 1971 SIIa Station Wagon. It is actually a 1970 station wagon, which was probably built in February 1970.

The vehicle was allocated to British Leyland, so if the vehicle has a 1971 compliance plate it was affixed when Leyland disposed of it later.

The unusual thing about this vehicle and #878G (also to British Leyland) is that neither are listed with an engine number. (I've not seen that in the books before)

I have no evidence in relation to your vehicle but in the 1970's time Leyland were playing around with different engines. On the other hand, it could be a simple matter that Leyland took the vehicle off the end of the assembly line before the folks at Grenville's had time to record the engine and key numbers.

The chassis should match the car number, so I have no idea what the "241-354" relates to, unless it was a prototype number, however these were usually in a sequence like "109/3"

I think the other details "body type: 837, series 109837" are numbers issued by registration authorities.

Originally Posted by Dark61

thanks for this. My 57 series 1 had "sent to Regent Motors, Melbourne June 57" on its details when I enquired at Gaydon. I asked someone what this meant and they said they (RM) were the wholesalers , PMC would have put it together. So its interesting to know that Regents actually put them together.
cheers,
D

I met a gentleman a few years ago that worked at Regents welding the chassis together.
The chassis' were apparently sent over as side rails, crossmembers & outriggers. They sourced the outriggers locally at some point to increase the 'local' content.

I was given a box of rivets, he must have had a few in his pocket as he left every day......

Colin

Originally Posted by Dark61

thanks for this. My 57 series 1 had "sent to Regent Motors, Melbourne June 57" on its details when I enquired at Gaydon. I asked someone what this meant and they said they (RM) were the wholesalers , PMC would have put it together. So its interesting to know that Regents actually put them together.
cheers,
D

Out of interest, is your 1957 a 1137 prefix or a 1127 prefix?

The reason is that many of the master distributors* (official title) were still getting UK built Export models after the PMC factory was in operation. This is particularly true of Annand and Thompson in Qld who preferred something built in the UK rather than something built by mexicans, it is probably why we had the "Brisbane tops" made by Athol Hedges to meet the Australian content rules for a vehicle built in the UK.

This continued into SII and SIIA (& SII to make up for production shortages and special orders like 88" station wagons which were not usually assembled in Ox until the SIII Game.

* Wholesaler isn't quite correct in this context, because Regent's were a retail dealer as well as wholesaling to other local dealers around Vic and Tas. hence the title "master distributor".

All very interesting. Mines a 1137 - 113701494. What's the difference between the two ?


When I first started to research the numbers - I found a website that appeared to suggest it was built in UK which seemed odd at the time as I thought nearly all the Land Rovers out here were CKD. But whatever site I found that mentioned that - I have forgotten the address. Gaydon say CKD.


cheers,
D