AA Highland Patrol Series I 88
AA Scottish Highland Patrol Land Rover Series I 88-inch TLE 883: golden yellow truck cab with khaki canvas tilt, black-masked front wings, bonnet spare and a HIGHLAND PATROL roof board, one of the Land Rovers that by 1958 had helped over 160,000 members on remote Highland roads in five years.
History
The Automobile Association started its Scottish Highland Patrols in the early 1950s to cover the long, empty roads north of the Great Glen, where a breakdown could leave a member stranded for hours. Land Rovers were the obvious choice — they could tow a car off a single-track road, carry fuel and spares, and keep going through Highland winters — and by 1958 the AA reckoned the patrols had helped more than 160,000 members in five years. TLE 883 is a Series I 88-inch in the AA's golden yellow with the black-painted front wing sides that kept the mud from showing, a truck cab with a canvas tilt over the rear body, the spare on the bonnet and a HIGHLAND PATROL board topped by the AA badge on the cab roof.
The Oxford Diecast 1:43 model 43LAN188025 and its product photographs, together with the AA's own history of its first ten years of Land Rovers, are the references: yellow body with black wing sides, khaki tilt, AA badges on both doors and the left wing front, the TLE 883 plate on the right wing front, a yellow whip aerial behind the cab and black steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle in the Breakdown group; the exact number of Highland Patrol Land Rovers is not recorded in the sources.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Rover Company (Land Rover Series I 88-inch)
- Manufactured
- Series I 88-inch (1956–58); TLE registration
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- The Automobile Association (patrol fit and livery)
- Engine type
- Rover 2.0 L inlet-over-exhaust petrol
- Production run
- unknown (a fleet of AA Highland Patrol Land Rovers)
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- United Kingdom
- Status
- unknown
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Series I
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 88″
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- Land Rover Series I 88 inch Canvas AA Highland Patrol (Oxford Diecast 43LAN188025) ↗ — Oxford Diecast (accessed 2026-09-12)
- The first ten years of AA Land Rovers ↗ — Lancaster Insurance (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/land-rover-series-i-88-inch-canvas-aa-highland-patrol-43lan188025 https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/land-rover-series-i-88-inch-canvas-aa-highland-patrol-43lan188025 ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T06:12:36.044Z · status: researched