Casablanca Breakdown Series III 109
Red-and-white Land Rover Series III 109-inch truck cab working as an independent breakdown truck around Casablanca, with a chrome bull bar and blue spot lamps, orange roof beacons and a bed-mounted recovery hoop carrying the spare wheel, photographed on a rural road outside the city in March 2010.
History
Morocco kept Series Land Rovers in daily work long after Britain had retired them, and around Casablanca a whole trade of independent recovery operators grew up on Series III 109 pickups: cheap to run, able to tow on dirt roads, and easy to fit with a home-made recovery frame. They are painted to be noticed — red with white roofs and bumpers, chrome bull bars hung with blue spot lamps, beacons on the cab — and cruise the highways and rural roads looking for stranded drivers.
The Flickr photograph shows one such truck on a road outside Casablanca in March 2010: red Series III 109 truck cab with a white roof, white vent panels under the windscreen, a white bumper and chrome bull bar with two blue spot lamps, small blue lamps at the screen pillars, orange beacons on the cab roof corners and a red hoop frame over the front of the bed carrying the spare wheel and a warning triangle. Its Moroccan plate reads 23074 with a regional code; the Arabic letter between is rendered as a dash. The registry model reproduces that vehicle in the Breakdown group. The operator is not identified.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover (Series III 109-inch truck cab)
- Manufactured
- Series III 109 (1971–85); photographed March 2010
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Independent Casablanca recovery operator (frame, lamps and livery)
- Engine type
- Land Rover 2.25 L petrol or diesel (unknown)
- Production run
- 1
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- Morocco
- Status
- unknown
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Series III
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 109″
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 breakdown truck near Casablanca (Flickr, womble67) ↗ — Flickr (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/womble67/4444708951/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/womble67/4444708951/ ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T08:31:52.339Z · status: researched