Is this a Landy?

Looks like a 110" series 2 forward control to me

AJH

Bit hard to tell, but from the position of the headlights/parking lights, I suggest it is more likely to be the earlier 109 FC.

Neither of these were in any way related to the 101, but were an FC version of the Series 2a - the 109 was not terribly successful, and was replaced by the 110, which had the wheelbase increased by 3/4" to accomodate ENV axles which were 4" wider than the Rover axles. While a much better vehicle, few were sold.

JD

No way, look at the overall length, this is early FC front end built on an

Martin

I think you could be right! I was not thinking about wheelbase, just trying to determine whether it was a 110 or 109!

JD

I've actually seen one of these quite often near to me (east Manchester) as a caravanette but not for a couple of years, in green. Someone called Alfred Miles also made a couple as fire engines, just googled for them.

I have a 110" 2B which is an original 2 1/4 diesel, I think it is quite rare but I don't know the production figures.

Martin

with satellite uplink??? ;-)

Telstar!

From the rest of the site....

"One of TWW's fleet of links vans, sporting microwave dishes for the relay of OB programming back to the studios."

In article , . mother writes

Point-to-point microwave links (as used for the last half century for TV and telecomms). It's configured as a mid-point, which is why it has two dishes. I think this was posed for the picture, as both dishes are pointing in the same direction, but there are stays I think at the corners of the vehicle, and what look like cables exiting (back right) so it might have been in use at the time.

Regards,

Simonm.

Likely microwave link to the nearest phone-box. Things were pretty primitive back then. Don't think Telsar was lauched till '72 BIAMLW!

According to James Taylor there were about 2300 110FCs made, 524 of which were diesels. But only 529 for the home market, of which 168 were diesels, so I guess that would qualify as rare - but not as rare as four cylinder petrol - there was only one of these made for the home market!

JD

Thanks for the info, I'll have a look, I've had it a long time and it's time I researched it's history Does the figure of 168 diesels include 2A, 2B and Series3?

Martin