Danish Army 109 Commander’s Caravan
A Danish Army Series III 109-inch station wagon, registration 52.042, used as a brigade commander's caravan: a mobile command post fitted with DA/VRQ-282 and DA/GRC-420 VHF radios and an Eberspächer heater, in three-colour camouflage with a full-length roof rack, replaced by the Mercedes-Benz 240GD in the early 1990s.
History
Alongside its shelter-bodied signals trucks, the Danish Army used the plain 109-inch Series III station wagon for command work. Fitted out as a 'commander's caravan' — the army's term for a mobile command post — the ten-seater's rear became a radio office with a DA/VRQ-282 and a DA/GRC-420 VHF set, an Eberspächer D4LS heater to keep it habitable in a Jutland winter, and a full-length roof rack for the tentage and kit that a headquarters carries with it. The Danish Army Vehicles Homepage records this one, 52.042, as the vehicle of a brigade commander.
The photograph shows it late in its life, in the three-colour camouflage of olive, black and sand applied to Danish vehicles from the 1980s, with the front panel painted black, a spare wheel on the bonnet, the registration stencilled on a sand patch on each front wing and carried on black plates, and a bare steel front bumper with stacked military bumperettes at each end. The Series III commanders' vehicles were replaced by the Mercedes-Benz 240GD/28 in the early 1990s. Engine, build year and how many station wagons were converted are not stated in the source.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover; command fit by the Danish Army
- Manufactured
- Series III 109 station wagon; in service until the early 1990s, build year not recorded
- Engine type
- Not recorded in the source (Series III 2.25 L four, petrol or diesel)
- Production run
- Unknown — one vehicle documented
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- Denmark
- 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
- Landrover 109 S III Stationcar — also used as a Commanders Caravan; the shown vehicle, used by a Brigade Commander, contained DA/VRQ-282 and DA/GRC-420 VHF radios and an Eberspächer D4LS heater; replaced by Mercedes-Benz 240GD/28 in the early 1990s ↗ — Danish Army Vehicles Homepage (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://www.armyvehicles.dk/lr109stn.htm https://www.armyvehicles.dk/lr109stn.htm ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T06:21:38.278Z · status: researched