My regiment was equipped with Series 3 Land Rovers, both SWB and LWB versions together with the Land Rover “one-ton” as prime mover for the L118 light gun. Can’t fault them really, go anywhere vehicles and pretty much unsurpassed even today. Here’s what I drove for most of my work as an OPA in the 1980’s:
With low range (red lever) selected and the diff lock (yellow lever) pushed down I once crawled my Series 3 up the side of a hill at a ridiculous angle. With the lads in my team hanging over the side, like you do in yacht racing, we recovered a casualty back to a place where a helicopter could land and take him to hospital. A casevac I’d rather forget because it led to a medical discharge some months later. He was good hand and our best Morse coder. Three years I had that Land Rover, lost in a parachute drop when a ‘line over’ malfunction stopped the inflation of one of two canopies and it spiralled into the ground.
I think I may have had a Dinky Car of one of those. It broke down less often.
My regiment was equipped with Series 3 Land Rovers, both SWB and LWB versions together with the Land Rover “one-ton” as prime mover for the L118 light gun. Can’t fault them really, go anywhere vehicles and pretty much unsurpassed even today. Here’s what I drove for most of my work as an OPA in the 1980’s:
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JH: The SWB were interesting to drive on rough terrain.
With low range (red lever) selected and the diff lock (yellow lever) pushed down I once crawled my Series 3 up the side of a hill at a ridiculous angle. With the lads in my team hanging over the side, like you do in yacht racing, we recovered a casualty back to a place where a helicopter could land and take him to hospital. A casevac I’d rather forget because it led to a medical discharge some months later. He was good hand and our best Morse coder. Three years I had that Land Rover, lost in a parachute drop when a ‘line over’ malfunction stopped the inflation of one of two canopies and it spiralled into the ground.