Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin:
00:10:23 Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2013-06-22 02:03 |
County Show day. Some of these people may be under the affluence of incohol. A very early Landie? And a hint of Minx on the left. |
◊ 2013-06-22 08:16 |
I agree; Series I, 80". If the guy riding shotgun has drink taken, I worry about the missing door |
◊ 2016-07-01 05:18 |
Picture upgraded. And definitely a Minx now. |
◊ 2019-05-04 12:33 |
Dark "Bronze Green" was Oct 49 onwards |
◊ 2019-05-04 16:33 |
Dark bronze green was a military standard paint as used on the FV2361 3/4 tonne trailer and many other vehicles. I wonder if Rover’s used identical paint on purpose. http://www.crusader80.co.uk/trailer.html -- Last edit: 2019-05-04 16:36:38 |
◊ 2019-05-04 17:25 |
I think the story is that the first 1948 production (including the 48 pre-productions starting with HUE 166) used "Sage green" from a batch of surplus cockpit paint from the Avro Anson; at this point Rover only envisaged a short-run batch of 500 Landies mostly for export as a device to receive increased steel quota allocations. But demand was so high from UK and overseas that they carried on, and had made 1758 by the end of 1948. Other pale green supplies were scrounged during 1948-49 so various shades appeared, until an MoD order for 1878 vehicles in May 1949 triggered the standardisation of the darker “Bronze Green”. |
◊ 2019-05-04 19:41 |
The excellent workforce in the New Assembly Building at Hadley Castle Works made literally thousands of the trailers at the rate of 50 per week iirc. MoD specs meant that the trailers were virtually indestructible short of being blown to bits, and there are a couple still in use locally by a building tradesman which must be at least forty years old. They used Landrover wheels which I always thought must have been pretty near their limit with 750kg load plus the unladen weight. |
◊ 2019-05-05 08:34 |
Are we talking ' Sankey ' trailers ? introduced long after S1 80in but I suppose paint might be same . They are very strong but also very heavy ! From memory did S1 have Brockhouse trailers ? -- Last edit: 2019-05-05 08:43:05 |
◊ 2019-05-05 09:03 |
Yes, Sankey built various trailers but the FV2361 and FV2381 were a particularly good fit with the expertise and large facility available. As well as trailers, the firm produced tank wheels and sprocket rings, not to mention complete vehicles including the FV430 Series, Saxon and Warrior. I joined the company in 1984 so can’t comment on earlier production except to agree that Brockhouse, and Rubery Owen had been involved plus some smaller players. The firm had a policy of designing well engineered tooling for quantity production which suited the smaller trailers, the larger specialist equipment being generally purchased in small quantities, which meant that we could not amortise expensive tools and remain competitive. The nickname GKN had amongst the chattering classes on the TV money programmes of “midlands metal basher” while true in that they did bash metal, completely ignored the knowledge they had in terms of tool design and production engineering, which was, imho, inferior to nobody. Other members of the group held equal levels of excellence in their own fields. -- Last edit: 2019-05-05 19:57:17 |
◊ 2019-05-05 11:47 |
Sadly all kinds of manufacturing expertise seems to be little valued and cheaply sold ( to other countries ) in the UK. I hope Guest Keen and Nettlefold are still thriving ? |
◊ 2019-05-05 12:45 |
Gone, but not forgotten. The group was taken over by Melrose Industries in 2018 and has been split up, although some of it still trades under various GKN banners. Sankey’s is no more, but activity still remains on the site as part of BAe Systems. I was always proud to be able to tell people I worked for GKN. Whether they were happy to tell people they employed me is not for me to say. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GKN -- Last edit: 2019-05-05 19:51:16 |