RAC Series I 109 Canvas Road Service
Late-1950s RAC road service Land Rover Series I 109-inch truck cab with a black canvas tilt, in RAC blue with ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB lettering and the Club's diamond — a long-wheelbase patrol vehicle able to carry towing gear and a stranded car's passengers, reproduced by Oxford Diecast (LAN1109004).
History
By the late 1950s the Royal Automobile Club was running long-wheelbase Land Rovers alongside its 80- and 88-inch patrol vehicles. The 109-inch truck cab with a canvas tilt gave a patrolman room for towing bars, a jack, fuel and tools, with space under the tilt for a broken-down car's passengers and luggage on the way to a garage — the kind of job the Club's later Relay-style services would formalise. They wore the RAC's dark blue with white ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB lettering along the rear body and the diamond badge on the doors and wings.
Oxford Diecast's 1:43 model LAN1109004 and its 1:76 counterpart 76LAN1109004 are the references: RAC blue with blue steel wheels, black canvas tilt over the rear body, the RAC diamond on the doors and both wing fronts, ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB on the tub sides and a small roof sign on the cab front. The plate is not legible on the model and is left blank; the registry model reproduces the vehicle in the Breakdown group. The size of the RAC's 109 fleet is not given in the sources.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Rover Company (Land Rover Series I 109-inch truck cab)
- Manufactured
- Series I 109-inch (1956–58)
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Royal Automobile Club (road service fit and livery)
- Engine type
- Rover 2.0 L inlet-over-exhaust petrol
- Production run
- unknown (RAC late-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
- 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 Series 1 109 Canvas RAC (Oxford Diecast LAN1109004, 1:43) ↗ — Oxford Diecast (accessed 2026-09-12)
- Land Rover Series 1 109 RAC Canvas (Oxford Diecast 76LAN1109004, 1:76) ↗ — Oxford Diecast (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/land-rover-series-1-109-canvas-rac-lan1109004 https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/land-rover-series-1-109-canvas-rac-lan1109004 ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T06:37:30.053Z · status: researched