The Land Rover at work.

The registry catalogues vehicles one at a time. These pages read across it: how each working role — policing, fire, rescue, casualty evacuation and soldiering — took the Land Rover from the earliest Series I conversions to the last Defenders, told through the vehicles in the collection and the workshops that built them.

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  40 vehicles · 6 chapters

  Police

  From a Belgian gendarme's 80-inch with a blue lamp on a mast to the armoured Pangolins of Belfast: seventy years of Land Rovers that carried the law to places a saloon car could not reach.

  1. 1951 – 1970sFirst on scene
  2. 1961 – 1980Belfast builds an armoured car
  3. 1978 – 1990Hotspur plate and the V8
  4. 1983 – 1996The Tangi and the coil-sprung generation
  5. 1990 – 2012A European fleet
  6. 2005 – todayArmour for the modern era

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  32 vehicles · 6 chapters

  Fire

  Rover catalogued a fire tender in the Land Rover's first years, and the small four-wheel-drive appliance has never gone away: works brigades, bush-fire tankers, airfield crash trucks and forest patrols from 1949 to the last Defender.

  1. 1949 – 1958A fire engine from the factory
  2. 1959 – 1969Bush, forest and works brigades
  3. 1970 – 1979Forward control and the crash truck
  4. 1980 – 1990Series III to One Ten
  5. 1998 – todayThe Defender appliance
  6. 2000s – todayForest fire patrol in the south

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  21 vehicles · 4 chapters

  Rescue

  Airfield crash trucks, mountain and cave rescue teams, lifeboat launchers, coastguards and beach patrols: the Land Rovers whose job was to reach somebody, and often to carry them out.

  1. 1950s – 1990sFirst away on the airfield
  2. 1980s – todayMountain, fell and cave
  3. 1995 – todayThe coast
  4. 2005 – todayEmergency units abroad

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  22 vehicles · 5 chapters

  Ambulance

  Two stretchers under a stretched canvas tilt on a Belgian Minerva; four in a Marshall box on a 109; a demountable module on a six-wheeled Perentie; the 800 Defender 130 'Pulse' ambulances of the Wolf era. How the Land Rover learned to carry the wounded.

  1. 1952 – 1972Stretchers under the tilt
  2. 1959 – 1982The box body
  3. 1972 – 1978Forward control
  4. 1984 – 1992Coil springs and modules
  5. 1996 – todayThe Pulse and the 130

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  139 vehicles · 7 chapters

  Military

  Minerva's steel-bodied Series I for the Belgian Army in 1952; the Lightweight built to fly under a Wessex; the 101 Forward Control; Australia's Perenties; Snatch, Wolf and WMIK; the licence-built Defenders of Spain and Turkey; the last NATO fleets. The largest single subject in the registry.

  1. 1952 – 1960Licence and CKD: the first military fleets
  2. 1961 – 1972The Series IIA army
  3. 1972 – 1978Forward control: the 101
  4. 1979 – 1985Stage One V8 and the six-wheelers
  5. 1985 – 1992Coil springs: One Ten, Perentie, Otokar
  6. 1992 – 2012Snatch, Wolf and WMIK
  7. 1995 – 2018NATO's new members and the last Defenders

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