Searle Mini-Carawagon

History

Alongside its 109-inch Carawagons, Carawagon International — the Sunbury-on-Thames firm of R.J. Searle — offered the Mini-Carawagon on the 88-inch Series IIA hard top: the hard top gained side windows and Searle's folding wood-and-metal elevating roof, and inside a compact kitchen and seats converting to a bed made a two-berth camper small enough for the lanes and ferries of a touring holiday. Hermen Vlothuizen's brochure archive holds the 1970 four-page Searle Mini-Carawagon leaflet, whose cover shows the car, XPK 154G, on a seafront with its roof closed.

The registry's model is a Series IIA 88 hard top in marine blue — a period colour chosen for the black-and-white photograph — with the elevating roof closed as a cream cap, hard-top side windows and the brochure's registration.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Series IIA 88-inch hard top) with Searle conversion

Manufactured

Brochure dated 1970

Modifier / coachbuilder

Searle Ltd (Carawagon) ↗

International Ltd (Mini-Carawagon)

Engine type

Rover 2.25 L four-cylinder petrol

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

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

• Searle mini-carawagon — Carawagon International brochure, 1970 ↗ — Hermen Vlothuizen Land Rover brochure collection (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://landrover.vlothuizen.nl/show/list/7077-1.html https://landrover.vlothuizen.nl/show/list/7077-1.html ↗