Seriously Series! Pics from the net thread......

[pop058]

That 1st pic of the S1 wagon is cool. It appears to have trafficaters, have seen them on early Rover cars but never on a Series.

[Killer]

That 1st pic of the S1 wagon is cool. It appears to have trafficaters, have seen them on early Rover cars but never on a Series.

Wayne,(1950landy) has them fitted to his Series I from memory.

Cheers, Mick.

[pop058]

Wayne,(1950landy) has them fitted to his Series I from memory.

Cheers, Mick.

There appears to be something fitted to the top of the screen, but it has indicators on the bumper as well

[S3ute]

Hello from Brisbane.

Not photos per se, but S1 and history buffs might find these tube shots of the London to Singapore Expedition or "Oxford and Cambridge First Overland" of interest:



Part 1 and 2:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BEshgVhJQ"]Part 1 of 2 - Land Rover Expedition to Singapore - YouTube[/ame]






[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BEshgVhJQ"] [/ame][ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXg6UlwpDc"]Part 2 of 2 - Land Rover Expedition to Singapore - YouTube[/ame]


Cheers,

Neil

[JDNSW]

That 1st pic of the S1 wagon is cool. It appears to have trafficaters, have seen them on early Rover cars but never on a Series.

Sorry - it is not a standard 107 wagon. It is a coachbuilt special for the British Post Office Engineering Department. Possibly as few as only one made, but may have been several.

Trafficators were optional equipment from the very start - some photographs of even preproduction cars have them. But they were not fitted there - they were fitted to the top of the windscreen pillars. I don't think I have ever seen them on a Landrover in Australia. One reason for this is that trafficators were never a legal substitute for hand signals in most (all?) Australian states. They were almost universal on English cars sold here in the 1940s and early 1950s, but were left off Landrovers, as they were only an option on them.

John

[S3ute]

Trafficators were optional equipment from the very start - they were fitted to the top of the windscreen pillars.

Hello from Brisbane.

Generally correct with a few famous exceptions.

For example, King George VI was given a Series 1 88" by Rover (example of solid British engineering, and possibly solid English toadying) for tooling about Balmoral and, along with custom gun racks etc, it had trafficators fitted into the sides of the front mudguards just before where they joined the bulkhead. On the other hand, the freeby given to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother had the trafficators fitted in the more usual position at the top sides of the windscreen frame.

Cheers,

[incisor]

i love them sun shades

they ever have them in australia?

[debruiser]

i love them sun shades

they ever have them in australia?

Don't know but I hope they weren't planning on seeing much! I struggle to see a set of lights from the series without having those things!

[incisor]

Don't know but I hope they weren't planning on seeing much! I struggle to see a set of lights from the series without having those things!

just stop back further

but i know what you mean ....

[JDNSW]

i love them sun shades

they ever have them in australia?

Yes - one on a Series 2a in my "graveyard" here.

These were a common fitting on cars of all types from the 1950s into at least the seventies, and not uncommon back to the twenties.

They sort of faded out as speeds increased and fuel costs started to soar after 1973, and almost universal airconditioning saw the last of them, but you still occasionally see one.

John