AA Road Service Series I 88 Hard Top
AA Road Service Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top PYU 15 in the association's yellow with a black roof and black front wing sides, AA badges on the wings and hard-top sides and ROAD SERVICE lettering — one of the radio patrol Land Rovers the AA spread from London to Birmingham and Leeds in the 1950s.
History
After the success of its first Land Rover with the London Night Patrols in 1949, the Automobile Association extended radio-equipped Land Rover patrols to Birmingham in 1951 and Leeds in 1952, and through the decade the yellow Land Rovers became the face of the AA's Road Service. The 88-inch hard tops carried a two-way radio, tools, fuel and a spare on the bonnet, and wore the yellow-and-black scheme with the AA badge on each front wing and on the hard-top sides above ROAD SERVICE.
PYU 15 is documented by Oxford Diecast's 1:43 (LAN188019) and 1:76 (76LAN188019) models of the vehicle, which are the references here: yellow body and hard-top sides, black roof and black-painted front wing sides, bonnet spare, AA badges on both wing fronts and both hard-top sides, ROAD SERVICE on the hard-top sides, PYU 15 on the front bumper and black steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle in the Breakdown group; the size of the AA's Series I fleet is not given in the sources.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Rover Company (Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top)
- Manufactured
- Series I 86/88-inch hard top, mid-1950s; PYU registration
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- The Automobile Association (radio patrol fit and livery)
- Engine type
- Rover 2.0 L inlet-over-exhaust petrol
- Production run
- unknown (part of the AA's 1950s Road Service fleet)
- 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 1 88 Closed AA (Oxford Diecast LAN188019, 1:43) ↗ — Oxford Diecast (accessed 2026-09-12)
- Land Rover Series 1 88 AA (Oxford Diecast 76LAN188019, 1:76) ↗ — 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-1-88-closed-aa-lan188019 https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/land-rover-series-1-88-closed-aa-lan188019 ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T06:16:30.217Z · status: researched