Thread: How many civilian Forward Controls are there.

No it,s ok Diana,just saved it of the pic you posted..might go and look for that chassis number now.

Here are some photos taken at the 1970 Waratah Festival in Sydney.
At the time Ted Briggs had a (then very modern) 2B Forward Control. The 88" Soft Top was owned by Ross Pratt.
This year was the Bicentenary of Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast. The Land Rover Owners Club Sydney Branch had a display where three vehicles were a-framed together and a banner slung between the front of the leading vehicle and the rear of the rear vehicle. I cannot remember the owner of the lead vehicle but the second (a 109 6 cyl with tropical roof) was owned by Dr Charles Warner. Don't know who owned the tailender but recognise a couple of the passengers in the back. The banner said "DISCOVER AUSTRALIA YOURSELF IN A LAND ROVER - JOIN THE LAND ROVER OWNERS CLUB - THE CLUB THAT GETS YOU THERE AND BACK" with a large map of members' trips above the centre vehicle.



If I remember correctly in the next year Roy Sim made up a set of four eccentric wheels to run on a Land Rover keystone cops fashion! I think that may have been the last Waratah Festival - they went arty-farty after that trying to copy Adelaide.
After returning from the 1971 Centralian trip organised by the LROCV and seeing Vic Jaegar's FC mobile home (fitted with 6 cyl Weslake head engine and later with a Range Rover engine and transmission) I tried to buy Mackellar County Council's 2B when it was retired to do something similar. It had a pantech body with electrical testing equipment inside.
Bob

Father in Law has A 2B Diesel (from mine in PNG)in his shed, North Arm QLD been trying to get it for the last 18 years.
Know of one, a 2A in a front yard in Amphitheatre VIC last year.
One 2B in Alice Springs About 5 yr ago.

Bit late noting this thread - it started while I was away over Christmas.

A couple of years ago Fred Smith in Melbourne had an ex-Malaysian military 2b in his shed for a customer, and I have an idea there was another FC there as well.

Twenty years ago I regularly saw a 2a FC in Collingwood driving in from Kew.

In the sixties I remember seeing a FC broken down by the roadside somewhere in the Alice Springs region - two weeks later it had been stripped to a bare chassis.

John

I have a CKD S11 A FC and it came into Aus with 3 others in the same container
and were assembled in Sydney at a Coach Builders where they had flat trays fitted. Factory 2.6 petrol 6cyl.

I see one regularly on the Northern Beaches in white with T#%#^a axles and a rear tray that looks like a plumbers but too tidy and organised. I used to see it driving often but lately just sitting in the driveway.

Jeff

John, I have the one that Fred Smith was working on. It is the one that was Vic Jaeger's mobile home - his 'pantec'.

Julie

Originally Posted by tardis

John, I have the one that Fred Smith was working on. It is the one that was Vic Jaeger's mobile home - his 'pantec'.

Julie

Julie

That's great to hear it still exists - I remember being at one of the LROCV/LROCS/LROCN/LRCACT gymkana's at Gundagai when the film of that vehicle was shown.

Seem to remember it is an S2B with the first conversion to Rover P5 3 litre and subsequently to a Range Rover V8/LT95.

Can I ask about it's current configuration and for some pics?

Diana