Searle Estate Wagon

History

Carawagon International of Sunbury-on-Thames, best known for its Land Rover camper conversions, also marketed the Searle range: estate wagons and station wagons on the Series IIA 109 that dressed the working Land Rover as a family or executive estate, with fully trimmed interiors, extra side glazing, roof rails, chrome trim and creature comforts, sold through Land Rover's special-approved scheme. Hermen Vlothuizen's brochure archive holds the 1970 Searle 'Estate Wagons & Station Wagons' leaflet, whose artwork shows a white station wagon with roof rails and a green hard-top estate wearing TJK 150G. Production figures are not recorded.

The registry's model is a Series IIA 109 station wagon in white with a body-colour roof and rails, chrome waist trim, rear-door spare and the brochure's registration.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Series IIA 109-inch) with Searle conversion

Manufactured

Brochure dated 1970

Modifier / coachbuilder

Searle Ltd (Carawagon) ↗

International Ltd (Searle estate conversion)

Engine type

Rover 2.25 L four-cylinder petrol or 2.6 L six-cylinder

Production run

Production conversion; count unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

United Kingdom

Status

unknown

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Series IIA

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

• Searle estate wagons & station wagons — Carawagon International brochure, 1970 ↗ — Hermen Vlothuizen Land Rover brochure collection (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://landrover.vlothuizen.nl/show/list/7078-1.html https://landrover.vlothuizen.nl/show/list/7078-1.html ↗