Tropical Roof Station Wagon

History

When Land Rover replaced the coachbuilt Tickford station wagon with its own metal-bodied 107-inch station wagon in 1955 — a ten-seater aimed at the export markets of Africa, Australia and the Middle East — it offered the Tropical Roof: a second skin of aluminium mounted on spacers above the main roof so that air drawn through ventilators along the roof edges flowed between the two panels and carried away the sun's heat, an arrangement that became standard on later Safari station wagons. The Wikimedia Commons photograph shows a 1957 example in red with bare aluminium door frames and cappings and the roof's ventilator slots visible along its side. Wikipedia's Land Rover Series history records the wagon and its roof among the factory variants.

The registry's model is a Series I long-wheelbase station wagon in red with the spaced second roof skin, ventilator slots and aluminium door frames; the game's Series I long chassis stands in for the 107.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Series I 107-inch station wagon)

Manufactured

Series I 107 station wagon

Engine type

Rover 2.0 L four-cylinder petrol

Production run

Production variant; count unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

United Kingdom

Status

preserved

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Series I

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

107″

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 ↗ — Wikipedia (accessed 2026-09-11)
• File: 1957 Land Rover Series I Station Wagon front q.jpg ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_series ↗