LOVE the old 1 tonner we had those when I was in the forces. The trouble is the ambulance version was prone to tipping over as waaaaaay TOO TOP HEAVY. this actually resulted in a lot of soldiers being injured or KILLED when they go wheels up! I had a love affair with the old Rover V8 for over 20 years owning 8 of them. Always wanted to get hold of one of these! Great vid!
I remember walking to my primary school past a normal suburban terraced Street in the Midlands and someone had one of these parked in their driveway. I was always in awe of it and thought it was unbelievably cool, it also started off my love of Land Rovers.
In the 80s infantry regiments used the 101 for the mortar platoon, in the rear was a holder that slide in which held the base plate, barrel and tripod it pulled a trailer with the mortar shells in.
I did trials on the 1 Ton Land Rover 73 to 76. We had to design a roll bar for it as we rolled one of them, and the only thing that saved my mates life was the spare wheel behind the driver. On the early models there wasn’t that step on the wheel.
We used to drive these in my regiment in the 80's & 90's, they're brilliant. Are you going to tidy it up as military vehicles are usually kept clean and tidy and are well serviced? These were also the base vehicles for the taxi's in Judge Dredd.
We're just going to keep it running for now, we'd like to get it back on the (public) road, don't see why it shouldn't pass its MOT. I actually mentioned the Judge Dredd bit, but I cut it out (along with some other bits) because I thought the video was too long.
Wasn't a 101 2b, bro... There was never a Landy like that... Your dad had a 110" Forward Control, 2b... Big difference... Google or Pinterest will show you the difference 👍🏻🇿🇦
I was in charge of a REME workshop when these were brought into service and it was great to see the old 101, it was designed to haul a gun and any trailers over rough ground, the trailers were driven too, there should be a drive plate underneath to take the drive shaft of the trailer, ans the cut out arches is an air drop design
In my Regiment we used these as Mortar platoons wagons, (V 8 Engined to get us out of trouble Quicker than we got into it was the theory ) also 3/4 ton and all with trailers, on Exercise we were the "Kelly's Heroes" we didn't dig in, we just harboured up, cammo nets done, hung a Hammock up, got the BBQ going, we had a shops worth of Rations, Coffee sugar milk Tea, what a laugh now when i think back to Warcop, Otterburn, Sailsbury plain, 79-84 Best mates you will ever have in your life. Mortar Platoon, out of sight,out of mind, you would never see it coming.
Tom, do you have any pictures of the mortar and mortar rack in use? Back in 2001 i managed to obtain a rack for the costly sum of £3. Still got it, even though some told me to scrap it.
@@arjanwilbie2511 Sadly no, all my happy snaps got destroyed in a house fire in the 90's, my discharge book, my medals, everything gone, now just got memories of my youth, but they were the best days of my life for sure.
Great video. my mate has a 101 and has just finished converting it into a camper including extending it over the back, It was originally an ambulance in it's former life. A few weeks ago we all went camping down to Cornwall, you would not believe the looks the 101 got. People just stopped and stared at it, or came over to ask about it. I must get it on my channel at some point.
3:58 only a single Jerry can, inline (with or without winch) or triple, transverse, if fitted for mortar. 4:44 they came in either voltage depending if 'Fitted For Radio' (FFR) -two batteries if 24 volt, 1 if 12 volt.
The colour scheme of that 101 suggest that it was used in only one of two places the British Army paints its vehicles that way. The Infantry Demonstration Battalion, Warminster (also with attached arms such as armour etc.) and the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS), Canada. All others would be the standard green/black camouflage pattern of the time or just plain green. I hope this helps in your tracking down it's former unit.
Awesome as! I own an ex British RAF 101 that's now here in Australia. Drive it as often as I can and love it everything about it. Not for wimps though, so if you like power steering, comfort, etc this is not the vehicle for you. Oh, and the GS models were standard 12 volt electrics. The 24 volt versions were FFR for the Rapier Missile systems. Yes, the steering is very heavy - heavier than any other Land Rover, but fine once you're moving. Oh, and whip the door tops off as well and it's even better in the warm weather.
Lovely truck to have.. I've got an Ambulance Body converted to a camper truck.. Never try and turn the steering wheel in a stationary position, get it rolling first, and then turn the wheel... My arms became 5" thicker since I've got mine. 😮 Regards, 🇿🇦
I love the way the camera pans to the field when he says he's in Denmark, like we'll catch a look at the treeline and go "AHH, yeah, those aren't British trees, and lo! Behold! A Viking in the woods..." Yy
In South African Army they were called Land Rover Forward Control. We only saw them in the Transport Park at the Bases where we were in the 80's and were not in use any longer.
Not the 101's though.. We had the 109" FC 2, and the 110"FC 2b... Ambulance body, office body, radio body and workshop body... Pinterest or Google the differences 👍🏻🇿🇦
A mate of mine had a 101. He was a groundsman for a large estate so bought it for trundling about the place and carting stuff around. When he left he decided to renovate it. He built a full hard top on it, Every speck of rust was blasted out. It got new (Slightly thinner for weight saving) galvanized sheet steel for most of the flat body panels , And an epic satin black paint job. It was absolutely immaculate and looked evil in a "Special forces" sort of way !!! Only problems were that if he parked it in direct sunlight the black paint meant the cabin would become a blast furnace, And he didn't think before tinting the side windows. They were fine when they were closed, But when you slid the rear section forward you couldn't see the wing mirrors through the double thickness of tinting film. :) He loved that truck, But 5 or 6 years after he got married his (now ex) wife suddenly decided that it wasn't practical, and cost too much to run (Personally I think she'd just found out that 101's in that sort of condition were actually worth a fair bit of cash around that time !!!) and insisted he sell it to get something more practical. I seem to remember that he got something like £12 to 15k for it. He spent around £1k of that on a sh*tty Ford Escort to run about in. The rest of the money went on a new kitchen and bathroom in their house (Which become HER house when the lawyers had finished with him. :( ). A sad sad tail....... So my advice is, If anyone reading this has a partner who's telling them to get rid of a car they love, It's probabbly less anguish in the long run just to get shot of them instead. LOL !
Also described as a Forward Control vehicle because the driver is on front of the engine. It was also very fast when unloaded. Unfortunately it was a commercial failure so Land Rover stopped production and the army had great difficulty finding a decent replacement. Some projects even continued to design their project to fit onto a 1 Tonne and then found out there were none to fit it onto!!
Your first point was correct. The rest....WRONG! It wasn't 'a commercial failure' which led to end of production. It was designed between Land Rover and the military. They ordered the number they wanted and then production stopped. Land Rover even offered to refurbish the army's fleet of 101s which included the fitting of diesel engines. The army said "no thank you".
I worked in Birmingham (UK) in the late Sixties and we had a prototype of some sort with two ladder chassis and a great need to throw half-shafts at every opportunity, but it did great service taking kids off camping when it was working. Those definitely were the days.
Driven these, many times, being attached to a Royal Artillery Regiment. They were, as you say, interesting to maintain. Quite a perennial task was the replacement of one windscreen or another. This was because when towing the L118 Light Gun in 'the A Frame and in convoy, over say, Salisbury Plain, the muzzle of the gun was about the same height as the windscreen. Being on minimal lighting and a large overhang on the vehicle in front, it was fairly common (once a year or so), for someone to forget to stop unit the vehicle commander was staring down an L118 barrel. Just a wee anecdote for you. What is missing from your vehicle, apart, that is, from the tilt, is the spare wheel. This was situated, in Right Hand Drive models, at least, behind the driver and formed the only real rollover protection as the tilt frame would not bear the weight of the vehicle. I've seen one having rolled and it was not pretty, fortunately, the gun crew got out without so much as a scratch. Anyway these were, in my memory, fantastic vehicles. They were a good drive, sounded beautiful and were very capable off road too.
My brother used to have one. In standard RHD soft-top form, but with the PTO driven winch. Not a bad off-roader as long as the viscose fan didn't hit water. If it did it threw it all up into the engine bay, soaked the distributor cap, and killed the engine. At least it was easy to take the engine cover off from the drivers seat and wipe out the cap - just don't try restarting without checking the fan isn't still touching the water, or put the cover back first - ask me how I know! lol! I got a few funny looks driving down a dual carriage way in the UK, strangely enough nobody got in my way, or tail-gated me... No idea why! (It did stop amazingly well with just those drum brakes). BTW, they made them in 12v and 24v. My brother's was 12v. IIRC 24v was reserved for the radio models. Also I don't remember him having any little hatches in the engine cover for checking water/oil, but it was quite a while ago. Pity neither of yours have the winch, that was a lot of fun, and a great safety net for when you do manage to get it stuck in several feet of clay goo. See previous sentence regarding replacing the engine cover before attempting to restart the engine!
I'm an American in Montana. To me, the 101 is the ultimate vehicle for where I live. And for hunting and wood gathering and off roading and, and , and. Yeah, amazing vehicle and I would love to have one. Hard shell preferably.
One Tonny,well known to a certain age group,our Squadrons had one each(Cheiftains,Armoured Regiments),as a Sqn replen vehicle,3.5 litre Rover V8,extremely thirst,lovely bit of kit,though
My regt 47 field regt took delivery of 18 brand new 105 light guns with these 1 tonne's in 1976. When towing guns, if you did not have the equipment in the bag then you had to have sandbags to balance the vehicle
You mentioned the Lux 101s - have one of the Australian Army 101 Rapier Tractors - there were 50 (some say 53) of these - very similar to the Brit 101 GS except the Aussie 101s were one and a half ton rated vs the Brit 1 ton.
So that explains why I used to see a 101 parked out the front of a house near the Earl of Harp Hotel, East Kew, Melbourne. It was ex Aussie Army stock.
Maybe but a lot of ex UK 101s have been imported and these probably out number the Aussie versions. There is a 101 importer in Melbourne. He has this at the moment for sale www.ebay.com.au/itm/Land-Rover-101-City-Cab-from-Judge-Dredd-movie/283039203033?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908131621%26meid%3D9b35da5af8df49c3bb8cde8666065ff7%26pid%3D100678%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D9%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D232932038418%26itm%3D283039203033&_trksid=p2481888.c100678.m3607&_trkparms=pageci%3A54985448-c45a-11e8-a789-74dbd1806ca4%7Cparentrq%3A285a23901660aada8f75854ffffac95f%7Ciid%3A1
I grew up in a former British colony I use to the British forces driving around but were never auctioned off like regular rovers I would like to know if a used one can be had and what's the proper way to inquire about one I want one now that you refresh my memory
Not only did i hear of them when i bought my first 109 IIa, but bought it as my 3rd vehicle. In 2005 i met a woman that was selling custom rims for one and later she gave me a 101fc ambulance as wedding gift. My dad got my old one, my wife has her own and i got a project or two to build up.
My first is a camper conversion, the first owner scrapped the rear interiour. Me and my dad collected 10 years to get the items needed but it is a 95% finished ambulance with pneu packs and all.
Nah, the other vehicle you hit is the crumple zone! I've driven one on UK roads, people certainly don't pull out in front of you! You sit so high (your seat is basically it roof level of most cars) that the "bumper", which is a huge box section across the front of the chassis, would miss a regular car's bumper completely, it would be straight into the nice soft bodywork far above it. You would either push the other vehicle down the road, or go over the top of it. Biggest risk would be rolling the 101. Hitting an off-roader would be more of a problem, but modern vehicles really are quite squishy.
Friend of mine who ran a body repair shop had one and stuck a crane on the back. Used it for accident recovery and towing his shi boat. The boat was bought sunk, he took the Volvo unit out and whacked a Rover V8 in. That boat was fantastic used hardy any fuel compared to the Yanky outboards. My brother was a partner in a film vehicle supply company called 99 Cars, as the name suggest they had a fleet of Met police vehicles. But they also took on the roll of action vehicle for films like The Eagle Has Landed, and many more I cant just think of. Plus a lot of TV and newspaper adds. One of these was a Land Rover and Rang Rover series for a Sunday news paper run. I did one for the Land Rover 110 V8 it had to tow a trailer with an elephant on it. The circus was in Scotland so hauled the trailer up from Pinewood, together with a box of special effect namely a set of scuba gear to fit jumbo. On the morning of the shoot Land Rover forgot to turn up. So the photographer had to do a lot of cut and paste, but this was way back in the 80s. The next job was to dress the trailer to look like an Airstream caravan, tow it behind a Range Rover across the front of Harrods. Then meet a circus in Battersea Park and load the trailer with camels. The ad came out with the header. ' You may need to tow a caravan one day" pun intended.
Good job... Great video ... You've finally pushed me off the edge, I've gone out and bought a roadworthy RHD 12V 101👍 Love the thing... It's your fault!🤣
The vehicle in the video is a 24volt, Fitted For Radio, version, The 12volt machines are more common, and easier to get parts for. There was also the winch version, where the winch was mount amid the chassis with fairleads to the front and rear.
I had two - a GS [canvas] and an ambulance. The canvas was my all-time favourite motor, but driving the ambulance was like being in a cooker [and it used even more juice].
Steve Boyle Turn the Esperbacher off then. :-) I had an Artic FFR 109 , bought that in the summer and didn't realaise the artic heater was on. Lost 10lbs in 10 miles.
The 101 or forward control as it was known was great to drive but it had a tendency of rolling over and the reason for the left hand drive was most were in Germany while in service and after leaving the military service some were baught and converted for the movie judge dredd great vehicle and a good video
Just my guess, by the cammo scheme and the left hand drive, I would put out that it was at one time with BATUS: British Army Training Unit at CFB Suffield Alberta in Canada.
where did you get your imformation from reason for my question is that my father used one as a man haul in papua between a village called regio on the southern coast and port Moresby way back in the early 60s ?.
Robert - it would not have been a 101Fc as they did not come into service until the 70s. If the one you describe was a Landrover then it would have been a 109 Series 2a - a completely different vehicle and the only commonality is the cab over design and the LR name.
what I used to ride in was a forward control land rover exactly the same design overall to the vehicle you showed on the show only difference that iam able to actually say is ours was a right hand drive and was always falling over as my father used to say this vehicle was supplied by Barclays construction for work around Port Morsby it was a 2.25 litre motor petrol and yes the year was 1963 hope this help explain my question on its age
That would have been a Series 2a Forward Control - completely different vehicle. The 101 designed in the late 60s into the early 70s and was never sold as a commercial vehicle - military only until demobbed from the various military forces.
I can remember the med centre in gutersloh garrison having 2 of these in ambulance format back in 1997 just before the land rover wolf box bodies replaced them and my uncle also owned one and painted it blue Just because he had loads of blue paint going spare!
The rumble from the 101 is the front axle, especially on over run you think it is about to disintrgrate. Sterring get the tyre pressure correct and rebuild the sterring arm bearings, a kit is available.
Fred Ive had an Australian 101 (by the way no has mentioned that 101 refers to the length of the wheel base in inches which makes it 1 inch longer wheel base than the old Range Rover), anyway ive had one for about 23years now. Bought it with 57,000 km on the clock and have just turned over 200,000km. Fitted a solid ute cab cobled from L/R parts about 15 yrs ago. Then about ten years ago fitted power steering from a Range rover and ten inch wide rims. Had a Fairy O/D fitted for many years but removed it about 6 months back because it had a chipped tooth in the final drive gear. Have been up and down the east coast of Australia and travelled 110 kmph many times on the highway. And yes I get about 12 mpg or 25 liters per 100km. The spare wheel is on a swing out carrier on the rear, was fitted by a previous owner.
Yup, fuel economy was not their thing! But hey, you don't use a 101 for commuting, it's for play! IIRC a lot of them had diesel engine swaps in civvy life.
Steve Evans yeah know what your saying there Steve, my mate was in the army and drove one as a troop carrier, he used a petrol 101 for his landscaping business which he set up when he left service, but the cost of running it was way to high and eventually a safari park bought it I wouldn't be surprised if it's still going strong
Yeah, that's why I put a 150 litre tank in mine so I can get some 'normal' range in it - I just close my eyes when filling it up though - that's not what they are about. Love it, drive it, fill it - simple.
Cheers for that Liam... 101FC, Love em. I'd proberbly swap my 1995 Tanami Edition Defender for one if i got the chance. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
These 101 landrovers are awesome! They really have presence. I recall that the racing driver Max Chilton and the designer George Bamford both own them to drive their mates around. I have known owners to line the floor with soundproofing to make them more usable. Do you know if these can be converted to power steering?
Yes they can but it’s not an easy job, needs a Range Rover steering box reversed and new bolt holes fitted. Awesome vehicle, I used mine every day never got into any road rage incidents, people did not fuck with you.
@Mark Leigh. Agreed. N suffix ran from 1 August 1974 - 31 July 1975. My first two cars were both 1973 M reg. suffix. N prefix ran from 1 August 1995 - 31 July 1996. I had a 1996 Renault. N reg. prefix.
When it was registered as a civilian vehicle in 1995, DLVA would have given in a registration plate (N suffix) related to its year of manufacture or first registration. I did the same with a Renault 5 from France, and got a T suffix registration. Another point is that you can purchase a registration - usually pick their initials, or some other vanity - and you can always have a year (the letter suffix in this case) *older* than the vehicle is, but not newer.
I drove one in the RAF, its not a pleasant experience on the road. The steering wheel is huge and at an odd angle. The gear stick is long and its a matter of hunting for the right gear. Your feet are practically on top of the pedals. The engine is huge and sounds powerful, but the gearing is set up for torque and there is no speed. First gear is basically used for a fraction of a second to get going before you have to change again. But of course this all works perfectly off road. In a lottery win world I would absolutely have one.
The locking diff is in the gearbox. There are axle lockers available like Detroit lockers but they cost a lot. The halfshafts are bigger in diameter so defender diffs will not fit. Gearing in the high / low box is lower, overdrive for a LT95 fits.
Navigation oh yes and how. Bloody good fun. It was so user interactive. You really had to work at it and that was a real pleasure. You felt you were achieving something, not just sitting there bored out your skull at a wallet emptying 50mph. It could do more but you daren't. I hold the record for our Series III engined thing ( de tuned version used in the P6 car?) - the in line 6 cylinder jobbie. 20 mpg and it was supposed to be 12. It had an overdrive, we never went above 35 mph and always gentle gentle cos with any wellie the big ends rattled. The fuel filter bowl contained sedimentary geology.
These should have had coil springs, but the MoD(PE) was still stuck in the past. I was at RAE, another part of the Procurement Executive and got the inside view of what a bunch of pillocks that part of the PE were. For off-road used the steep approach and departure angles were wonderful, but the higher center of gravity didn't help much. For the same period the UNIMOG was a much better vehicle.
The actual number is intriguing- XXX XXX N reg is mid 1970's. Might they have given it an "age related" plate when registered in 1995? P.S. also known as the 'forward control' Land Rover.
And those Ford vehicles were much larger. Still, this thing could carry a ton in the cargo bed while towing an artillery piece, so the 3.5l V8 was impressive. (It's based on a GM engine design from the late 1950s for which Rover had purchased a license and was using in the 1960s.)
Originally it would have been on MOD Plates which would have been "AB 12 CD" when it was released from Military it would have been given a "ABC 123 D" plate related to the year it was built.
Sorry but the design wasn’t ‘so it was easier to load into a plane’ it was designed to maximise the load bed by moving the crew forward without needing to make the bed longer.
"...the positioning of the 3.5 litre Rover V8 engine beneath and to the rear of the cab eliminates the bonnet at the front, making the vehicle more or less cuboid thus reducing unused space in transport aircraft." - JANE's Military Vehicles and Ground Support Equipment, 1985, p. 300-301 😉
TirsbaekTV The engine is in the same spot as it would be in relation to the wheelbase as any other Landrover. Jane’s isn’t infallible. You’re premise was it was easier to load because it has a ‘flat nose’ which is in part true but it wasn’t designed with a flat nose for that reason, it was designers like that so they could maximise payload to length of vehicle by putting the crew in front of the motor instead of the traditional behind the motor, this meant the payload could be carried much further forward and reduce the wheelbase. This means it’s better off road than a longer wheelbase, will be built lighter (less metal in the chassis) and use common parts with ‘standard’ Landrovers of the day.
I'm not disagreeing with you, and perhaps I should have described it as "efficient" instead of "easier". But all the information I can find states that it was designed this way to take up less space on aircraft.
Yes, that's the way I heard it. : 1 - maximise the payload area 2 - fit everything else in as required ... so the driver sits over what used to be the bonnet\wheel arch. It's a small lorry. But I'm a bit out of touch - is the seat here even further forward than the fc with its little bonnet or is it that the 101 door post & windscreen are further forward. ?
there was also a civi version with a slightly rounded front under the windscreen, i worked at BT they had one that was used for emptying the cash from phone boxes...such a waste, i heard there was also a speed limit on them as doing an emergency stop could put it on it,s nose.
Jon Booty - the Uk army may have used that reference but the maker - Leyland - in their parts documents used the term Land Rover 101 as early as 1976. Also the 1.5 Tonne versions were not I tonners :-)
Sadly from military experience it was unstable, uncomfortable to drive and impractical....it was a good idea that did not translate to a good military platform....shame! The old 1 tonny!
@@Xynudu They did make thousands , just not more thousands than they needed. Most of the artillery in that time was self-propelled, armoured, tracked vehicles. The FC101 was wanted to tow light guns that were air-portable (like the tow vehicle) so they made enough for the light guns that needed towing and a few more for general use.
I did the trials on it in the 70’s, it is very unstable. It was because of us it wasn’t used much. Do an emergency stop and the rear wheels come off the ground
the engine is not the same as the classic range rover. it is a 3.5 rover v8, yes, but the compression was lowered substantially to allow it to run on low quality fuel, and to lower the revs for higher torque. if it still has its original heads on it should be painfully slow. most have been converted however
Also, given that it has the single jerry can on the side, it was probably fitted with the Nokken winch - does it still have that? EDIT - no, the winch lever isn't in the cab - wonder if it was sold - they are very valuable
Seen a couple of comments re: registration. I, until recently, owned a Moggy and I've heard from a number of classic car drivers that their vehicle wasn't registered (in the current way) until the late 80's, early 90's, and this was due to a change in the way the DVLA were operating and changed to a computer- or electronic-based system. Your 101 may well have served abroad with NATO, UN etc but it could easily have just missed this change in registration. Don't quote me on details, I'm just going from memory but a little more detective work in the right places could prove fruitful!
Biggest rubbish! It should have been called Hang Over. We used it in the old South African Defence Force. Unreliable, unbelievably expensive to run, heavy on fuel, underpowered. Been there, done that....
Agreed, but back in the 1970's is was good for what it was designed to do, and the army payed for the spareparts. Now it is just a fun vehicle and a piece of history :)
Johan Nel, jy het die kat aan die bal beet, broer... Die 101 was nooit in Suid Afrika, of in die Weermag nie. Jy dink aan die 109" en 110" Forward Controls. Hulle het n effense langer neusie gehad, en het met n 2,25lt x 4 silinder of 2,6lt x 6 silinder engine uitgekom. Ambulans, kantoor, radio, en werkswinkel... Gaan in op Pinterest, dan sien jy die verskil.. Ek het 3 x van die 2,6lt kantoor bodies gehad.. Lekker campervan, maar stadig en swaar op sous. Ek het ook een van blykbaar 3 x 101's, met die V8 engin in, wat in Suid Afrika is.. Daar is n paar in Namibia en Botswana, maar nooit militer nie, wel op veilings gekoop as gameviewers... Wens ek kan vir jou fotos van myne stuur.. Staan in n stoor in Hermanus, vat my maabd se pensioen om kafee toe te ry... 😢
LOVE the old 1 tonner we had those when I was in the forces. The trouble is the ambulance version was prone to tipping over as waaaaaay TOO TOP HEAVY. this actually resulted in a lot of soldiers being injured or KILLED when they go wheels up! I had a love affair with the old Rover V8 for over 20 years owning 8 of them. Always wanted to get hold of one of these! Great vid!
I remember walking to my primary school past a normal suburban terraced Street in the Midlands and someone had one of these parked in their driveway. I was always in awe of it and thought it was unbelievably cool, it also started off my love of Land Rovers.
In the 80s infantry regiments used the 101 for the mortar platoon, in the rear was a holder that slide in which held the base plate, barrel and tripod it pulled a trailer with the mortar shells in.
I did trials on the 1 Ton Land Rover 73 to 76. We had to design a roll bar for it as we rolled one of them, and the only thing that saved my mates life was the spare wheel behind the driver. On the early models there wasn’t that step on the wheel.
We used to drive these in my regiment in the 80's & 90's, they're brilliant. Are you going to tidy it up as military vehicles are usually kept clean and tidy and are well serviced? These were also the base vehicles for the taxi's in Judge Dredd.
We're just going to keep it running for now, we'd like to get it back on the (public) road, don't see why it shouldn't pass its MOT. I actually mentioned the Judge Dredd bit, but I cut it out (along with some other bits) because I thought the video was too long.
Dean Prosser - so of course they were gotten rid of ! Heard it before!
My Dad has a 101 2B Forward Control - It's on my list of restoration projects, along with all the other land rovers he has!
Wasn't a 101 2b, bro...
There was never a Landy like that...
Your dad had a 110" Forward Control, 2b... Big difference... Google or Pinterest will show you the difference 👍🏻🇿🇦
I was in charge of a REME workshop when these were brought into service and it was great to see the old 101, it was designed to haul a gun and any trailers over rough ground, the trailers were driven too, there should be a drive plate underneath to take the drive shaft of the trailer, ans the cut out arches is an air drop design
In my Regiment we used these as Mortar platoons wagons, (V 8 Engined to get us out of trouble Quicker than we got into it was the theory ) also 3/4 ton and all with trailers, on Exercise we were the "Kelly's Heroes" we didn't dig in, we just harboured up, cammo nets done, hung a Hammock up, got the BBQ going, we had a shops worth of Rations, Coffee sugar milk Tea, what a laugh now when i think back to Warcop, Otterburn, Sailsbury plain, 79-84 Best mates you will ever have in your life. Mortar Platoon, out of sight,out of mind, you would never see it coming.
I thought the powered trailers were a failed experiment, it toppled the test beds. A shame really, i love the concept.
Tom, do you have any pictures of the mortar and mortar rack in use? Back in 2001 i managed to obtain a rack for the costly sum of £3. Still got it, even though some told me to scrap it.
@@arjanwilbie2511 Sadly no, all my happy snaps got destroyed in a house fire in the 90's, my discharge book, my medals, everything gone, now just got memories of my youth, but they were the best days of my life for sure.
The powered trailer never made it to full production. During trials it was found to push the FC causing dangerous handling characteristics.
Great video. my mate has a 101 and has just finished converting it into a camper including extending it over the back, It was originally an ambulance in it's former life. A few weeks ago we all went camping down to Cornwall, you would not believe the looks the 101 got. People just stopped and stared at it, or came over to ask about it. I must get it on my channel at some point.
I used to own a LandRover Lightweight and a mate of mine owned a 101 it was really fun to drive Great Vehicle 😊
3:58 only a single Jerry can, inline (with or without winch) or triple, transverse, if fitted for mortar.
4:44 they came in either voltage depending if 'Fitted For Radio' (FFR) -two batteries if 24 volt, 1 if 12 volt.
The colour scheme of that 101 suggest that it was used in only one of two places the British Army paints its vehicles that way.
The Infantry Demonstration Battalion, Warminster (also with attached arms such as armour etc.) and the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS), Canada.
All others would be the standard green/black camouflage pattern of the time or just plain green.
I hope this helps in your tracking down it's former unit.
Thanks! Had another guess from someone saying it's probably BATUS, so that seems likely.
Some vehicles in cyprus were painted in that scheme.
Awesome as! I own an ex British RAF 101 that's now here in Australia. Drive it as often as I can and love it everything about it. Not for wimps though, so if you like power steering, comfort, etc this is not the vehicle for you. Oh, and the GS models were standard 12 volt electrics. The 24 volt versions were FFR for the Rapier Missile systems. Yes, the steering is very heavy - heavier than any other Land Rover, but fine once you're moving. Oh, and whip the door tops off as well and it's even better in the warm weather.
> so if you like power steering, comfort, etc...
so, I take it you like to suffer?
Lovely truck to have.. I've got an Ambulance Body converted to a camper truck.. Never try and turn the steering wheel in a stationary position, get it rolling first, and then turn the wheel... My arms became 5" thicker since I've got mine. 😮
Regards, 🇿🇦
Always been fascinated by that vehicle,and some years ago found a handbook with some references to the forward control model. A real man's machine!
Try doubling the clutch as you change gears up and down. Also check your steering box for leaks or worn roller bearings/seals.
Definately!
OMD 80 (and later on OMD 75) were what the military called engine oills. OMD stood for Oil Mineral Detergent.
I love the way the camera pans to the field when he says he's in Denmark, like we'll catch a look at the treeline and go "AHH, yeah, those aren't British trees, and lo! Behold! A Viking in the woods..." Yy
In the 80s, my TA unit had these for mortar and MILAN platoons. My company had one as an ambulance. Brilliant fun to drive!
In South African Army they were called Land Rover Forward Control. We only saw them in the Transport Park at the Bases where we were in the 80's and were not in use any longer.
Not the 101's though.. We had the 109" FC 2, and the 110"FC 2b...
Ambulance body, office body, radio body and workshop body...
Pinterest or Google the differences 👍🏻🇿🇦
we had these in the royal; artillery to pull our 105mm light guns great bit of kit live in the back when out in the field we called it a tonney
Fell in love with the 101 back in the mid-70s when someone from Lode Lane screamed up and then back down our road in one
This channel deserves more subs for such a video
A mate of mine had a 101. He was a groundsman for a large estate so bought it for trundling about the place and carting stuff around.
When he left he decided to renovate it. He built a full hard top on it, Every speck of rust was blasted out. It got new (Slightly thinner for weight saving) galvanized sheet steel for most of the flat body panels , And an epic satin black paint job. It was absolutely immaculate and looked evil in a "Special forces" sort of way !!!
Only problems were that if he parked it in direct sunlight the black paint meant the cabin would become a blast furnace, And he didn't think before tinting the side windows. They were fine when they were closed, But when you slid the rear section forward you couldn't see the wing mirrors through the double thickness of tinting film. :)
He loved that truck, But 5 or 6 years after he got married his (now ex) wife suddenly decided that it wasn't practical, and cost too much to run (Personally I think she'd just found out that 101's in that sort of condition were actually worth a fair bit of cash around that time !!!) and insisted he sell it to get something more practical. I seem to remember that he got something like £12 to 15k for it. He spent around £1k of that on a sh*tty Ford Escort to run about in. The rest of the money went on a new kitchen and bathroom in their house (Which become HER house when the lawyers had finished with him. :( ).
A sad sad tail....... So my advice is, If anyone reading this has a partner who's telling them to get rid of a car they love, It's probabbly less anguish in the long run just to get shot of them instead. LOL !
Also described as a Forward Control vehicle because the driver is on front of the engine.
It was also very fast when unloaded.
Unfortunately it was a commercial failure so Land Rover stopped production and the army had great difficulty finding a decent replacement.
Some projects even continued to design their project to fit onto a 1 Tonne and then found out there were none to fit it onto!!
Your first point was correct. The rest....WRONG!
It wasn't 'a commercial failure' which led to end of production. It was designed between Land Rover and the military. They ordered the number they wanted and then production stopped. Land Rover even offered to refurbish the army's fleet of 101s which included the fitting of diesel engines. The army said "no thank you".
I worked in Birmingham (UK) in the late Sixties and we had a prototype of some sort with two ladder chassis and a great need to throw half-shafts at every opportunity, but it did great service taking kids off camping when it was working. Those definitely were the days.
Driven these, many times, being attached to a Royal Artillery Regiment. They were, as you say, interesting to maintain. Quite a perennial task was the replacement of one windscreen or another. This was because when towing the L118 Light Gun in 'the A Frame and in convoy, over say, Salisbury Plain, the muzzle of the gun was about the same height as the windscreen. Being on minimal lighting and a large overhang on the vehicle in front, it was fairly common (once a year or so), for someone to forget to stop unit the vehicle commander was staring down an L118 barrel. Just a wee anecdote for you. What is missing from your vehicle, apart, that is, from the tilt, is the spare wheel. This was situated, in Right Hand Drive models, at least, behind the driver and formed the only real rollover protection as the tilt frame would not bear the weight of the vehicle. I've seen one having rolled and it was not pretty, fortunately, the gun crew got out without so much as a scratch. Anyway these were, in my memory, fantastic vehicles. They were a good drive, sounded beautiful and were very capable off road too.
Haha very cool to hear stories about people who has work with them! We do have the sparewheel and mount for it somewhere on the farm :)
Great for getting your sheets and pillow cases to the laundry in Senalager
Great video as always! Amazing to have a 101, even better 2 of them!!! Would love to have one, one day, really cool vehicles! Great review Liam!
My brother used to have one. In standard RHD soft-top form, but with the PTO driven winch.
Not a bad off-roader as long as the viscose fan didn't hit water. If it did it threw it all up into the engine bay, soaked the distributor cap, and killed the engine.
At least it was easy to take the engine cover off from the drivers seat and wipe out the cap - just don't try restarting without checking the fan isn't still touching the water, or put the cover back first - ask me how I know! lol!
I got a few funny looks driving down a dual carriage way in the UK, strangely enough nobody got in my way, or tail-gated me... No idea why!
(It did stop amazingly well with just those drum brakes).
BTW, they made them in 12v and 24v. My brother's was 12v. IIRC 24v was reserved for the radio models.
Also I don't remember him having any little hatches in the engine cover for checking water/oil, but it was quite a while ago.
Pity neither of yours have the winch, that was a lot of fun, and a great safety net for when you do manage to get it stuck in several feet of clay goo. See previous sentence regarding replacing the engine cover before attempting to restart the engine!
I'm an American in Montana. To me, the 101 is the ultimate vehicle for where I live. And for hunting and wood gathering and off roading and, and , and. Yeah, amazing vehicle and I would love to have one. Hard shell preferably.
One Tonny,well known to a certain age group,our Squadrons had one each(Cheiftains,Armoured Regiments),as a Sqn replen vehicle,3.5 litre Rover V8,extremely thirst,lovely bit of kit,though
My regt 47 field regt took delivery of 18 brand new 105 light guns with these 1 tonne's in 1976. When towing guns, if you did not have the equipment in the bag then you had to have sandbags to balance the vehicle
It is a bit more boat-like with no weight in the back ;P
When we were going to pick them up the rumours were it was amphibious. Remember when scuttlebuck was what kept the army going😂
Hehehe ;P - Nisse
You mentioned the Lux 101s - have one of the Australian Army 101 Rapier Tractors - there were 50 (some say 53) of these - very similar to the Brit 101 GS except the Aussie 101s were one and a half ton rated vs the Brit 1 ton.
So that explains why I used to see a 101 parked out the front of a house near the Earl of Harp Hotel, East Kew, Melbourne. It was ex Aussie Army stock.
Maybe but a lot of ex UK 101s have been imported and these probably out number the Aussie versions. There is a 101 importer in Melbourne.
He has this at the moment for sale www.ebay.com.au/itm/Land-Rover-101-City-Cab-from-Judge-Dredd-movie/283039203033?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908131621%26meid%3D9b35da5af8df49c3bb8cde8666065ff7%26pid%3D100678%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D9%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D232932038418%26itm%3D283039203033&_trksid=p2481888.c100678.m3607&_trkparms=pageci%3A54985448-c45a-11e8-a789-74dbd1806ca4%7Cparentrq%3A285a23901660aada8f75854ffffac95f%7Ciid%3A1
I grew up in a former British colony I use to the British forces driving around but were never auctioned off like regular rovers I would like to know if a used one can be had and what's the proper way to inquire about one I want one now that you refresh my memory
Not only did i hear of them when i bought my first 109 IIa, but bought it as my 3rd vehicle. In 2005 i met a woman that was selling custom rims for one and later she gave me a 101fc ambulance as wedding gift. My dad got my old one, my wife has her own and i got a project or two to build up.
My first is a camper conversion, the first owner scrapped the rear interiour. Me and my dad collected 10 years to get the items needed but it is a 95% finished ambulance with pneu packs and all.
When you drive this flat out on a fast road remember--YOU are the crumple zone.
A great vehicle.
Nah, the other vehicle you hit is the crumple zone!
I've driven one on UK roads, people certainly don't pull out in front of you!
You sit so high (your seat is basically it roof level of most cars) that the "bumper", which is a huge box section across the front of the chassis, would miss a regular car's bumper completely, it would be straight into the nice soft bodywork far above it. You would either push the other vehicle down the road, or go over the top of it. Biggest risk would be rolling the 101.
Hitting an off-roader would be more of a problem, but modern vehicles really are quite squishy.
You didn't mention it but was that the hand crank strapped to the front ? if it was why is it so long ?
It is. It’s long because the engines so far back
the one ton lanny, of course i have heard of it, did a great job in the 80's when it was used for carting the mortar platoon around,
Friend of mine who ran a body repair shop had one and stuck a crane on the back. Used it for accident recovery and towing his shi boat. The boat was bought sunk, he took the Volvo unit out and whacked a Rover V8 in. That boat was fantastic used hardy any fuel compared to the Yanky outboards.
My brother was a partner in a film vehicle supply company called 99 Cars, as the name suggest they had a fleet of Met police vehicles. But they also took on the roll of action vehicle for films like The Eagle Has Landed, and many more I cant just think of. Plus a lot of TV and newspaper adds. One of these was a Land Rover and Rang Rover series for a Sunday news paper run. I did one for the Land Rover 110 V8 it had to tow a trailer with an elephant on it. The circus was in Scotland so hauled the trailer up from Pinewood, together with a box of special effect namely a set of scuba gear to fit jumbo. On the morning of the shoot Land Rover forgot to turn up. So the photographer had to do a lot of cut and paste, but this was way back in the 80s.
The next job was to dress the trailer to look like an Airstream caravan, tow it behind a Range Rover across the front of Harrods. Then meet a circus in Battersea Park and load the trailer with camels. The ad came out with the header. ' You may need to tow a caravan one day" pun intended.
We used them at 29 Commando to tow the 105 light gun and both could be hung from a chopper. V8 was a real brummer up hill with no cargo!
If I had the space to park one up, I would have one in a heartbeat.
Good job... Great video ...
You've finally pushed me off the edge, I've gone out and bought a roadworthy RHD 12V 101👍 Love the thing... It's your fault!🤣
Glad to hear! Enjoy it :)
The vehicle in the video is a 24volt, Fitted For Radio, version, The 12volt machines are more common, and easier to get parts for. There was also the winch version, where the winch was mount amid the chassis with fairleads to the front and rear.
I had two - a GS [canvas] and an ambulance. The canvas was my all-time favourite motor, but driving the ambulance was like being in a cooker [and it used even more juice].
Steve Boyle Turn the Esperbacher off then. :-) I had an Artic FFR 109 , bought that in the summer and didn't realaise the artic heater was on. Lost 10lbs in 10 miles.
if that crank on the front is meant for starting the engine then I would love to see you demonstrate it. if not... then what is it for?
As far as the stiff steering, check the idler box, some had a heavy spring inside with taper roller bearings
probably the vehicle has no power steering
no joke lol
Fantastic bit of kit
what you described as engine oil filler looked more like a radiator filler cap
Was definitely the oil filler.
Yep, but it definately is the oil filler.
It's oil. Radiator is the one towards the front.
The 101 or forward control as it was known was great to drive but it had a tendency of rolling over and the reason for the left hand drive was most were in Germany while in service and after leaving the military service some were baught and converted for the movie judge dredd great vehicle and a good video
Not all Forward Controls are 101s though.
Just my guess, by the cammo scheme and the left hand drive, I would put out that it was at one time with BATUS: British Army Training Unit at CFB Suffield Alberta in Canada.
Interesting. Thanks for the insight!
A local lad has an F/C overlander campervan, it's a right nice sight to see on the road
Hi guys, what do you think of the new or recently announced Grenadier.. Very defender like?
where did you get your imformation from reason for my question is that my father used one as a man haul in papua between a village called regio on the southern coast and port Moresby way back in the early 60s ?.
I always thought they were in service since the late 50s
Robert - it would not have been a 101Fc as they did not come into service until the 70s. If the one you describe was a Landrover then it would have been a 109 Series 2a - a completely different vehicle and the only commonality is the cab over design and the LR name.
what I used to ride in was a forward control land rover exactly the same design overall to the vehicle you showed on the show only difference that iam able to actually say is ours was a right hand drive and was always falling over as my father used to say this vehicle was supplied by Barclays construction for work around Port Morsby it was a 2.25 litre motor petrol and yes the year was 1963 hope this help explain my question on its age
That would have been a Series 2a Forward Control - completely different vehicle. The 101 designed in the late 60s into the early 70s and was never sold as a commercial vehicle - military only until demobbed from the various military forces.
I can remember the med centre in gutersloh garrison having 2 of these in ambulance format back in 1997 just before the land rover wolf box bodies replaced them and my uncle also owned one and painted it blue Just because he had loads of blue paint going spare!
Me too! I was in the back of one early 90s with a smashed knee...op 'whirlygig'!
Was in one in RAF ALDERGROVE with busted leg I am not raf ARMY
The rumble from the 101 is the front axle, especially on over run you think it is about to disintrgrate. Sterring get the tyre pressure correct and rebuild the sterring arm bearings, a kit is available.
Where can I buy one, love from Tanzania
The UK!
Fred
Ive had an Australian 101 (by the way no has mentioned that 101 refers to the length of the wheel base in inches which makes it 1 inch longer wheel base than the old Range Rover), anyway ive had one for about 23years now. Bought it with 57,000 km on the clock and have just turned over 200,000km. Fitted a solid ute cab cobled from L/R parts about 15 yrs ago. Then about ten years ago fitted power steering from a Range rover and ten inch wide rims. Had a Fairy O/D fitted for many years but removed it about 6 months back because it had a chipped tooth in the final drive gear. Have been up and down the east coast of Australia and travelled 110 kmph many times on the highway. And yes I get about 12 mpg or 25 liters per 100km. The spare wheel is on a swing out carrier on the rear, was fitted by a previous owner.
we had that in royal artillery great bit of kit and we did a big nato ace mobile force exercise in Denmark 1989
I drove the 101 or 1tonne in the 70s during my time in the Scots guards it was used in the mortar platoon
My mate had one of these cool 101's but it needed to be followed by a petrol tanker 😄😄
Yes I had forgotten that!
Yup, fuel economy was not their thing!
But hey, you don't use a 101 for commuting, it's for play!
IIRC a lot of them had diesel engine swaps in civvy life.
Steve Evans yeah know what your saying there Steve, my mate was in the army and drove one as a troop carrier, he used a petrol 101 for his landscaping business which he set up when he left service, but the cost of running it was way to high and eventually a safari park bought it I wouldn't be surprised if it's still going strong
Yeah, that's why I put a 150 litre tank in mine so I can get some 'normal' range in it - I just close my eyes when filling it up though - that's not what they are about. Love it, drive it, fill it - simple.
How do you know a 101 owner? They describe the route by petrol stations. I had 74GJ38 an ambulance.
Cheers for that Liam... 101FC, Love em. I'd proberbly swap my 1995 Tanami Edition Defender for one if i got the chance. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
These 101 landrovers are awesome! They really have presence. I recall that the racing driver Max Chilton and the designer George Bamford both own them to drive their mates around. I have known owners to line the floor with soundproofing to make them more usable. Do you know if these can be converted to power steering?
I don't know but I'm sure it's been done. I've seen Max's and George's 101's on UA-cam and they are awesome.
Yes they can but it’s not an easy job, needs a Range Rover steering box reversed and new bolt holes fitted. Awesome vehicle, I used mine every day never got into any road rage incidents, people did not fuck with you.
@@ive595 Thanks, they are some awesome 101s in my video of the LRO show last weekend, unfortunatly filmed late on Sunday.
The number plate is actually from 1975, not 1995
It's an age related plate but it was registered in 1995 ;)
@Mark Leigh. Agreed. N suffix ran from 1 August 1974 - 31 July 1975. My first two cars were both 1973 M reg. suffix.
N prefix ran from 1 August 1995 - 31 July 1996. I had a 1996 Renault. N reg. prefix.
A bought number plate from 75
When it was registered as a civilian vehicle in 1995, DLVA would have given in a registration plate (N suffix) related to its year of manufacture or first registration. I did the same with a Renault 5 from France, and got a T suffix registration. Another point is that you can purchase a registration - usually pick their initials, or some other vanity - and you can always have a year (the letter suffix in this case) *older* than the vehicle is, but not newer.
reminds me of the COE Jeep of the early 60's
Awesome!!.. great for towing the boat👍
Would like to own & drive this. Loved it.
A friend of mine has a rebuilt one of these and it's a beast but must admit does not look much like that now
Great Video, Thanks for that. From another 101 owner....
I drove one in the RAF, its not a pleasant experience on the road. The steering wheel is huge and at an odd angle. The gear stick is long and its a matter of hunting for the right gear. Your feet are practically on top of the pedals. The engine is huge and sounds powerful, but the gearing is set up for torque and there is no speed. First gear is basically used for a fraction of a second to get going before you have to change again. But of course this all works perfectly off road. In a lottery win world I would absolutely have one.
I think you will find the forward control LR was introduced in the early 60s
H,i Does the 101 have locking diff's
It has a centre locking diff
Due to these having the same diff's as the Defender you can get all the same diff's aftermarket, lsd, locker, air locker and torque bias.
The locking diff is in the gearbox. There are axle lockers available like Detroit lockers but they cost a lot. The halfshafts are bigger in diameter so defender diffs will not fit. Gearing in the high / low box is lower, overdrive for a LT95 fits.
Well done. A very entertaining video.
Navigation oh yes and how. Bloody good fun. It was so user interactive. You really had to work at it and that was a real pleasure. You felt you were achieving something, not just sitting there bored out your skull at a wallet emptying 50mph. It could do more but you daren't. I hold the record for our Series III engined thing ( de tuned version used in the P6 car?) - the in line 6 cylinder jobbie. 20 mpg and it was supposed to be 12. It had an overdrive, we never went above 35 mph and always gentle gentle cos with any wellie the big ends rattled. The fuel filter bowl contained sedimentary geology.
These should have had coil springs, but the MoD(PE) was still stuck in the past. I was at RAE, another part of the Procurement Executive and got the inside view of what a bunch of pillocks that part of the PE were. For off-road used the steep approach and departure angles were wonderful, but the higher center of gravity didn't help much. For the same period the UNIMOG was a much better vehicle.
The 101 fc club and register also has a guy that can do a history search on the 101. They did that for mine
Cool, might look into that.
The actual number is intriguing- XXX XXX N reg is mid 1970's. Might they have given it an "age related" plate when registered in 1995?
P.S. also known as the 'forward control' Land Rover.
The reg plate relates to the vehicles age, not first registration
You gotta love how Brits consider three liters (or litres) "massive." At the time this was built Ford was using a 7 liter in some 4WD vehicles.
And those Ford vehicles were much larger. Still, this thing could carry a ton in the cargo bed while towing an artillery piece, so the 3.5l V8 was impressive. (It's based on a GM engine design from the late 1950s for which Rover had purchased a license and was using in the 1960s.)
Guys, if possible, show LR 1300 Santana! 101 cool machines!
Had these in 1976 ..fast for military .dif lock. heater for rear grunts ..
My old 101, great vehicle
it was one of a pair of a rapier missile battery based in BOAR.
Originally it would have been on MOD Plates which would have been "AB 12 CD" when it was released from Military it would have been given a "ABC 123 D" plate related to the year it was built.
The flat steering wheel reminds me of the old Bedford trucks we used to use in Hong Kong - Sekong REME
Sorry but the design wasn’t ‘so it was easier to load into a plane’ it was designed to maximise the load bed by moving the crew forward without needing to make the bed longer.
"...the positioning of the 3.5 litre Rover V8 engine beneath and to the rear of the cab eliminates the bonnet at the front, making the vehicle more or less cuboid thus reducing unused space in transport aircraft." - JANE's Military Vehicles and Ground Support Equipment, 1985, p. 300-301 😉
TirsbaekTV The engine is in the same spot as it would be in relation to the wheelbase as any other Landrover. Jane’s isn’t infallible. You’re premise was it was easier to load because it has a ‘flat nose’ which is in part true but it wasn’t designed with a flat nose for that reason, it was designers like that so they could maximise payload to length of vehicle by putting the crew in front of the motor instead of the traditional behind the motor, this meant the payload could be carried much further forward and reduce the wheelbase. This means it’s better off road than a longer wheelbase, will be built lighter (less metal in the chassis) and use common parts with ‘standard’ Landrovers of the day.
I'm not disagreeing with you, and perhaps I should have described it as "efficient" instead of "easier". But all the information I can find states that it was designed this way to take up less space on aircraft.
TirsbaekTV yea sorry, I reread my comment and I was rude. It’s a cool truck. Hope to see more of it on your channel.
Yes, that's the way I heard it. :
1 - maximise the payload area
2 - fit everything else in as required
... so the driver sits over what used to be the bonnet\wheel arch.
It's a small lorry.
But I'm a bit out of touch - is the seat here even further forward than the fc with its little bonnet
or is it that the 101 door post & windscreen are further forward. ?
What a brilliant machine!! The 101 is pretty cool too haha!
I drove one for ages when I was in the mortar pln in the paras
Cracking video. My dream vehicle.
Thanks Steven! Grab one now before prices climb even more!
This and the lightweight are the 2 classic landies I would love to own. That said I wouldn't say no to a pinz 6x6.
there was also a civi version with a slightly rounded front under the windscreen, i worked at BT they had one that was used for emptying the cash from phone boxes...such a waste, i heard there was also a speed limit on them as doing an emergency stop could put it on it,s nose.
That was an earlier vehicle with a smaller engine and wasn't 101 inch wheelbase.
Truck, Utility, 1 Tonne or 1 Tonnie.
The term 101 Is only used by civvies.
Absolutely!
Or because it got a 101” wheel base
Like
Defender 110 is 110”wb
Defender 90 is 90” wb
All owned by civies now😎
The -term- 101 Is only used by civvies.
Jon Booty - the Uk army may have used that reference but the maker - Leyland - in their parts documents used the term Land Rover 101 as early as 1976.
Also the 1.5 Tonne versions were not I tonners :-)
Sadly from military experience it was unstable, uncomfortable to drive and impractical....it was a good idea that did not translate to a good military platform....shame! The old 1 tonny!
Matthew Dobbs Its very easy to drive. The most comfy Landy I ever had😎
I guess if it was any good, they would have made thousands. But they didn't. Hmmm. Doesn't that tell you something.
@@Xynudu They did make thousands , just not more thousands than they needed. Most of the artillery in that time was self-propelled, armoured, tracked vehicles. The FC101 was wanted to tow light guns that were air-portable (like the tow vehicle) so they made enough for the light guns that needed towing and a few more for general use.
I did the trials on it in the 70’s, it is very unstable. It was because of us it wasn’t used much. Do an emergency stop and the rear wheels come off the ground
the engine is not the same as the classic range rover. it is a 3.5 rover v8, yes, but the compression was lowered substantially to allow it to run on low quality fuel, and to lower the revs for higher torque. if it still has its original heads on it should be painfully slow. most have been converted however
Also, given that it has the single jerry can on the side, it was probably fitted with the Nokken winch - does it still have that? EDIT - no, the winch lever isn't in the cab - wonder if it was sold - they are very valuable
It did, the owner (my uncle) bought this one just for the winch and spares for his other 101 which is featured towards the end of this video.
Hello are you going to Peterborough LRO show
Yep!
This neat little truck was probably sold off as surplus when they started downsizing the British Forces Germany in the mid 1990ies, I guess.
superb land rover 101 off road
please tell me you've called the 101 kevin.. cool vehicle what are the plans for it ??
Haha no, but I did think about that! We'd like to get it back on the road, don't see why it shouldn't pass its MOT.
TirsbaekTV .. i guess if you MOT & register it it will need Danish plates, so can't call it kevin
I would say 75 with the reg plate as it is less it's registered on a private plate
The second one has the same seats as the 3 serries landys also it looks like an LI cap badge scored out on front
nice big toy
I like the green one :D
would love a 101
Seen a couple of comments re: registration. I, until recently, owned a Moggy and I've heard from a number of classic car drivers that their vehicle wasn't registered (in the current way) until the late 80's, early 90's, and this was due to a change in the way the DVLA were operating and changed to a computer- or electronic-based system. Your 101 may well have served abroad with NATO, UN etc but it could easily have just missed this change in registration. Don't quote me on details, I'm just going from memory but a little more detective work in the right places could prove fruitful!
Biggest rubbish! It should have been called Hang Over. We used it in the old South African Defence Force. Unreliable, unbelievably expensive to run, heavy on fuel, underpowered. Been there, done that....
Agreed, but back in the 1970's is was good for what it was designed to do, and the army payed for the spareparts. Now it is just a fun vehicle and a piece of history :)
Johan Nel, jy het die kat aan die bal beet, broer...
Die 101 was nooit in Suid Afrika, of in die Weermag nie.
Jy dink aan die 109" en 110" Forward Controls.
Hulle het n effense langer neusie gehad, en het met n 2,25lt x 4 silinder of 2,6lt x 6 silinder engine uitgekom. Ambulans, kantoor, radio, en werkswinkel...
Gaan in op Pinterest, dan sien jy die verskil..
Ek het 3 x van die 2,6lt kantoor bodies gehad.. Lekker campervan, maar stadig en swaar op sous.
Ek het ook een van blykbaar 3 x 101's, met die V8 engin in, wat in Suid Afrika is.. Daar is n paar in Namibia en Botswana, maar nooit militer nie, wel op veilings gekoop as gameviewers...
Wens ek kan vir jou fotos van myne stuur.. Staan in n stoor in Hermanus, vat my maabd se pensioen om kafee toe te ry... 😢