Land Rover 50 Year Adventure
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2014
- The story of Land Rover from it's inception as a way to save the Rover company to its becoming the SUV of choice for the landed gentry.
The design for the original Land Rover vehicle was started in 1947 by Maurice Wilks, chief designer at the Rover Company, on his farm in Newborough, Anglesey.[11] It is said that he was inspired by an American World War II Jeep that he used one summer at his holiday home in Wales.[12][13] The first Land Rover prototype, later nicknamed 'Centre Steer', was built on a Jeep chassis and axles.[14]
The early choice of colour was dictated by military surplus supplies of aircraft cockpit paint, so early vehicles only came in various shades of light green; all models until recently feature sturdy box section ladder-frame chassis.
In June 2007, Ford Motor Company announced its plan to sell Land Rover, along with Jaguar. Ford retained the services of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and HSBC to advise it on the details of the deal. The buyer was initially expected to be announced by September 2007, but the sale was delayed and an announcement was not made until March 2008. A UK-based private equity firm, Alchemy Partners, and the India-headquartered Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company
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In 1953 my dad bought a 1951 series 1 for his hill country farm in New Zealand. It was used everyday for the next 30 years.
I saw it pull out many a stuck stock truck. In 1979 my father towed out a brand new Land-cruiser bogged to the axles without breaking traction. It was even used to help retrieve a D8 bulldozer! We stacked 33 hay bales on her while towing 120 bales on the trailer to beat the rain(you had to lean out the door to see where you were gong). With a tarp over the custom dog crate on the back she rescued the kids from our snow bound school bus.
My mum, brother and I and numerous friends learnt to drive in her. As my father used to say on the roughest tracks your nerve would fail before she would
Jalopy was her name and she was part of the family.
I don’t know why but this made me cry
35 years ago I bought a series 2a light weight and have been hooked ever since, yes they smell, they leak, they’re drafty, my lightweight had gaps under the doors that packets of cigarettes fell out of (trying to help me quit), panel gaps in general are a laugh, bolts and bits were never the same on the car, both metric and imperial were used and its not that much better on my 2014 Puma, it’s still cramped and I’m a big lad, but I’m happy to live with all this, I can wind the window down (They’re electric and they haven’t broken yet!) and lean my elbow out of it, fresh air’s healthy. Land Rover Defender has more soul than most of the modern cars out there. It still makes me smile when I drive it. Which I do every day, lockdown permitting.
Brilliant discription❤
Ive a series 2a 1966 served in the Artillery and Welsh Guards and a series 3 light weight, I need to get the history on the latter. Both are fun
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“Freelander” iconic for the beginning of the end of Land Rover
And for killing Camel Trophy
Defender did that
@@PieAndChipsyeah but it started with the Freelander and the D3. Not that the D3 isn't good but when they lost the solid axle articulation and gained the tall stiff air suspension
A proud DISCO II owner's here! God bless all those who made this beautiful history become true! And God bless all those who are keeping this GREAT LEGEND ALIVE!
Same here brother I have a modified disco series 2! It's an amazing vehicle and I love it. It runs great it's tough Etc you keep on the service and check everything and it's your friend. I'm kind of sad when I watch this to see where Land Rover has gone after the d3. Now I know that the newer ones are still capable but we all know that solid axles and coil springs and less computerized is tougher and longer lasting I'm hoping eventually Land Rover does something like the Grenadier after seeing how they're going to do your was made despite them Etc but in all reality what were we to expect with the new defender? Look at what they were doing with all the other vehicles and how the old Defender was just a replication of what they had been making for decades and those Engineers were long long gone so considering the way all the other Rovers have been up into the late Defender it makes sense that the Defenders turned into what it did. They only kept making the old one cuz they had the factory it wasn't like they were innovating it still the way she does with the rubicons actually making them better they just kept on pumping out old Defenders. But maybe someday they will back it up and make a purpose-built one again. I just don't know if they can because they have too much pride as Brits considering their new Defender there's no way they would make something different admitting that they kind of made a mistake
@@ronaldrrootiii6040 Hi Ronald! And thank you so much for your friendly words! Regarding why they don't do simple and tuff cars like the did before, well, that's a very sensitive topic... On my humble opinion the sad truth is that people like us are getting old. The newest generation are interested in technology and gadgets on their vehicles more than driving a solid car. Young people I talk to are first impressed about how my Disco looks like but when I told them that the average speed on the highway is around 70 miles/h (mine is a TD 5) they become disapointed. Jeep still has a good market for the Wrangler in the US but if you look at the numbers you can see that even the Wrangler is not the best selling Jeep. On the other hand unfortunately there are very few young people who love to go in the nature like fishermans, hunters or simply travellers in order to need cars like ours. Car makers did their best for their finances. They used a very aggressive marketing for making people believe that a digital dashboard, electronic suspension, bluetooth connection, 20 video cameras, big screens are a must. And people started to believe it. It's not only about the English pride and it's not only about Land Rover... Its about the type of client that has been created. When more of us will return at the simple beautiful life we used to live car makers will probably think about making simple and useful cars like they used to make. But sadly... The good times are really over for good.
One of Landrover's secrets was its low, low, low ratio. As a teenager (some time ago) I would put it in low range, adjust the hand throttle a little and get out and walk along beside it, or even walk away and laugh at this car driving by itself. What a party trick!
laopass Sound like fun.
I guess it made the ladies "wet" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
There is a more practical use for it. If stuck in sand and you are alone you can get out and dig while the car is driving out by itself.
I used to do that while feeding hay from the back of my Series 3 - 109 ......... I think many farmers did!
Our favourite trick on friends as teenagers was to ease the hand throttle out, then bail out, leaving the passengers to panic . We would then jump in the back ready to take over if they didn't work out what was going on, great fun until someone pushed it in as I jumped on causing it to bunny hop and throwing me off. End up in hospital for a week with concussion and we were banned from playing that game.
As said great for feeding out.
Me and my dad are lucky enough to have the 42nd series one land rover in the world, over 70 years old and still going strong, even nicknamed it rusty
had a series 2a for over 20 years, 51 years old and still working hard, love It!
Oh my, when I worked at Land Rover, this DVD continuously played at the "Adventure Center" in the showroom.
This video makes me smile; I walked by it many times in the course of the workday...
Of the 25+ vehicles we've owned, a 1965 88" Land Rover we had on the "Big Island" of Hawaii was the most fondly remembered. We drove it from sea level (on old Hawaiian trails across lava flows) to the top of Mauna Kea (14,000 ft); on jungle paths and through the tropical rain forests; across rivers. It was all an adventure.
Lovely to have great memories made possible by these amazing, magnificent vehicles. Magical things...
Being an old-school car enthusiast, I've come to favour the vintage Land Rover over what's being built today. :)
Jason, I once had a 88 "SIIA DPU. The car that gave me the greatest experiences in a motor vehicle. Was a member of the Danish Land-Rover owners club for 25 years.. Unfortunately, its chassis frame failed to withstand the Danish climate.
The older models also appeals to me more than the new, as used today for much electronics that make them vulnerable and technically impossible to repair along the way.
It may well be parts are cheap, but also used lot of them, and tools must be used often.
The taxation in Denmark of today, makes it almost impossible to own, or drive, 4x4 as a private person.
***** SIIA DPU?
Ah! Ok. I didn't know what you were referring to. :)
Sadly, no. I never have.
Good news man
Hello land rover people my name is Victer Mew I am 16 and I gist want to tel jou that you changed my life and I love jou for that
Hi Vic. How was your life changed?
In the 1990's all Land Rovers are real authentic adventure vehicles with solid axles. Then the millennium came and all the Land Rovers become soft and all switched to independent suspension. Gone are the vehicles that are the choice of explorers, for expedition, and adventure seekers. I miss the old Land Rover era, it is that reason why I became a huge fan of Land Rover.
Real choice of non-British scientists and explorers was Toyota Land Crusiser (old jeep style). That was a tank of a 4X4. Rovers are for tinkerers and engineers.
I've had a 2a and series 3. My brother had a series one. My mechanic called my series 3 a movie star. It is! Also the best army vehicle ever built. The Queen drives them and perhaps GOD! But let us pay homage to the Jeep too.
I’m Indian and I’m saying this without shame - give the Land Rovers back to the British!! THEY know best how to make Land Rovers..well..LAND ROVERS
Tata Motors help Land Rover with additional capital required to produce their cars. Tata does not interfere with Land Rover's operations and LR acts as an independent british company. Britain has had a bad history when it comes to managing a car company so their ownership under Tata Motors helps them concentrate on only one thing, making great, capable SUVs.
Back when cars are simple they can make them. Now that cars are basically computers with wheels, its a different ball game.
Just be glad Jaguar Land Rover isn’t based in India as Tata is.
Indian TAT A NOT Range Rover. 😢
@@sanjayj1432 TAT
my biggest concern is the virtual extinction of the defender... markets dictate many things, but if it would go my way I would rather go back to basics, a new "series 1 update" for the real thing: rugged, cheap to produce and maintain, versatile and just with the improvements (security, performance) it needs -not more. The "luxury" strategy is not an appealing one, the 2CV-concept (such an icon!) was a great one, and this is really in line with sustainability!
Yup, all this digital dross in modern cars has killed them for me an many others! Good idea to bring back a slightly updated series 1. It would sell like hot cakes, People really can slide a window to open it... an electronic button is totally NOT required!
@@Jammoko Like the idea - alu rustproof and all that. In a similar vein, I still await Windows 98 Third Edition.
@@Jammoko windows. Hell people don't even use them at all anymore. They aren't happy unless a vehicle comes with multi zone climate control. LOL.
What would you say now? With the new defender?
Agree completely.
Land Rover is my FAV British vehicle brand.
IF LR wants to continue as the best, it better start putting some reliable parts in those vehicles.
I was with the USAF in Turkey 1957-58. I saw the first Land Rover in Istanbul in 1958, these NZ guys had one with trouble so they waited for a part from England. I may have had a ride on one but I do not recall that event.
this needs to be played in every landrover dealership on earth
roger origin I agree, so should the shorter (30 minutes shorter that is) “Great Cars” from PBS of Land Rover, albeit with added updates as to what happened to the company to the present day.
@@patrickmichaellangan576 the issue is, most dealerships hate the old stuff, i found that out in Holland.
Yeah the salesman would be confused and the customers wouldn't like what they see but Land Rover did what they did it's their fault the only iconic vehicle still made that is actually better and amazing off-road is a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Nothing is geared that low front and rear lockers sway bar disconnects and traction control a stock Rubicon can do almost anything it's amazing and Jeep doesn't test them on a stupid grassy mud that they know it can go over like Land Rover they test them on literal rock crawling trails the new Defender couldn't even do and it's literally Jeeps actual testing ground
قوة إبداع إتقان تاريخ ينتج هذا الوحش قطعة هندسية جميلة متوحشة قوية ماشاء الله اللهم ارزقنا مثلها يا رب العالمين تحفة فنية رائعة وتمتاز بالقوة والجمال أحبها أعشقها ماشاء الله اللهم ارزقنا مثلها.
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The 1 st vehicle ever seen by 1/3 of the Population !! and 70 % of them are still working some where on the Planet ! Top Vehicles ,along with Roll,s and Bentley THE BEST ever produced by the English ...
75 % App !
RIP Defender. I think they departed from what made the LR an icon.
Land Rover was already an icon long before "Defender".
"Defender" was only 1990 onwards.
@@PieAndChipsyes and the new Defender really ruined the company no more solid axle coil spring articulating tough vehicles
We had a Peugeot 504, a very comfortable car. The sunroof was opened by hand.
Wow. It's the best report I've ever seen. Thanks a lot for the homage on the land rover. From a fan Joel of Mauritius
I have several North American club events in the mid to late 80's when I was younger with a Sony Camcorder. This video inspires me to show many dedicated American club enthusiasts. Around the RR came out here and way before the disco came out. Along with some defender builds that arrived in containers way back then in the us. Stay tuned!
Excelente documental!
El mejor que he visto asta el momento!!! Gracias por compartirlo!
Good find Mike.
And thanks to Wheeler Dealers for helping us through the lock down 👍
Really enjoyed watching this, thanks much for making it!
36.14 "DA FUQ?!"
Two incredible, world beating British icons: Land Rover & Sir Ranuluph Fiennes!
I have a 1960 diesel SII 109 basic, and used it today to collect some feed from the local farm supplies. Parked in the car park amongst other modern 4x4, the only car anyone took a glance at was my SII.
Very good, my Lany is now 44 years young and done Aftica twice 😊
Would like to hear more about that lost frankensense city
I've wanted to do this since I was a kid....I've been into off-roading all my life and would jump at at chance to do this!!!
I have had many days out like that over the last 40 odd years.
I have learned a lot in that time and it's been a lot of fun.
Here in Australia, we learn a lot about looking after the tracks, otherwise they get closed.
More importantly, we learn how not to put ourselves or others in danger during recovery operations.
Staying clear of loaded equipment . snatch straps with D shackles joining them or stepping over winch lines when they are under load is a sure way risk death or serious injury.
Have fun but keep your safety in mind at all costs. You really don't want to have that awkward conversation with your friend's family ro explains why they have a D shackle shaped hole in their head.
I love land rover classic.
Old schooll is Old school , ansome and nostalgic documentary, very good I LIKED. TANKS TO THE CHANNEL. Greetings from Portugal.
I own a Series One and Three myself so great to see this documentary!
Gert Vt Glad you enjoyed the doc. How many Series One's and Three's are left? Do you still take it out?
A "series One" Really ? It's like having a 'Defender'. I want none of that, just give me a 'Land Rover'. "Series II" is of course perfectly acceptable.
Although really like a Hagglunds BV206 !!
Yes, I like the idea of having a Land Rover - with a few optional extras - roof, windscreen, doors, winch, circular saw, welder, belt pulley.....
@@millomweb "Land-Rover", surely?
@@grumpyoldman3458 No.
When I was in Turkey, The 3 New Zealand guys had ordered a part from England to fix one of them. I believe I rode an RO1.
Great doc. but failed to mention something very important. It was mentioned it used aluminium because steel was in short supply! Not the real reason! Maurice had an aluminium boat on Anglesea farm. (it sunk for three years) maurice pulled it up and noticed after cleaning it had NO corrosion! It was then he decided to make the ' Landy' panels from aluminium. I read about this in an old dusty story of Landrover.
laopass Interesting.
+laopass Hmmmmm.. Very cool.. That could also of helped the fact..
+laopass Can you remember the magazine issue, would like to look into this ;)
Interesting. Thank you.
It did mention it. They stated it was "corrosion resistant" and that it was cheap.
Great video, I drive a 1968 IIA
Great history, thank you for this. Shame they don't bring back the first models and make them electric on a rustless chassis or a stainless steel exoskeleton like the Cybertruck.
There's still no plaque or sign, at Red wharf bay on Anglesey, to show that the concept for the Land rover first started here.
AMO QUEST' AUTO, I PRIMI MODELLI SONO FANTASTICI
Gidday from Australia. I think Arthur Goddard and his late father might disagree about who invented the Landrover. Arthur is 95 and going strong in Brisbane Australia. He owns Landrover prototype number 1 and his father's WW2 Jeep that gave his father the idea of the Landrover.
The best vehicle ever!
In the late 70;s a friend's father got a new one. On the drive home in the dark my friend (12) was fiddling with a few new optional extras the old one didn't have. Coming up to a traffic light they couldn't stop, my friend had found the new hand throttle. Needless to say they drive Land cruisers today.
if they only knew what the company was turning out today they would loose their minds.
lose not loose
thanks for sharing been interesting documentary of land rovers :)
Could the original designers ever imagine how big the brand would become and how advance the technology in the new cars would be...
I grew up in northern Patagonia getting on and off land rovers... they became an extension of my own house and I am still an absolute fan of such an emblematic piece of automotive history! It is very sad that we cannot find such simple straightforward cars anymore, junk like discovery, range rover, etc. are just NO alternative! And it got even worse: even the defender is no longer produced! (let's hope Tata comes with a similar version) So, now I just hope I can get a Series One someday, or else I'll settle for a russian GAZ...
Look out for Projekt Grenadier; I have suspicion there may be some Umm Alter DNA in it, but not a bad thing...
Love the series models, after that they are just cars. ‘’things change in human society not for better but for profit’’
Saint Boudreau The 2 is not to bad ?
He got the idea out of something made for better utility during War time and not for Profit.
Not every quote is appropriate or even necessarily halfway dignified. This distant fantasy that profit is inherently unethical or unhelpful is only one that non-entrepreneurs use to live with their own entrepreneurial inaction and/or profound demoralization. I wish you the very best, but that quote is complete nonsense.
wonderful documentary. Such a pitty that they couldn't keep up with the competition, just like Alfa and Ferrari, now only have history.
In secula! best wishes!
Remember you could buy a "Great Divide" version in North America. Had no typical installed front lower air dam with fog lights. Fitted with cloth seats. Stripped down. Wonder if any of them still exist!
I have had my range rover classic over 19 years and she has done more off-road and on to save people? I would never trust another brand to do what my extraordinary vehicle can and will do? 🚨🚨🚨🚨
I'm at a loss to understand your questions.
My first Landy was a 2a truck cab when all my friends were driving capris escorts and minis
I'm still driving a Defender after over 37 years later and have had either a Defender, Discovery 1 or Range Rover in my life with very few years with out a landy in my life.
For a while I owned a 1952 Land Rover Defender 80 in the traditional green. It was museum registered. But I didn't use it much so I sold it to a company-offsite hunting experience company. Got the same money as I'd paid for it so that was fine. But I still miss it. Still remember the brass Made in Solihull.
Defender was 1990 onwards. Nothing before that point was a Defender.
I recall men tried to rebuild a Rolls Royce but the steel was not good. My father-in-law had a Chevrolet 4 wheel drive. He drive it very fast and luckily no other vehicle was there. That was great.
Good times.
But a shame the new 'defender' looks bad and is way too expensive. Hopefully a new manufacturer can get another Defender going in all but name.
Wonderful
DOPE!!! Thank you for sharing!
Dropping LRs by parachute - the men hurry towards them to unpack them and get them on the road
but find the keys missing ;)
From what i read when the range rovers crossed the darian gap the differentials cept exploading and they got a serias 2 landrover air lifted in to go ahead and find a easy way for the rangerovers
Lada Niva is the best 4x4 i have bouth!!!
Excellent video
In all seriousness and what with the RR Vogue and it’s poor siblings, the Defender still to me, is the classiest, understated vehicle of choice for those I know. However the general bogan, chaff, trailer part types all wanted a RR. Thank heavens for that. As the LR Defender remains ours.
Very nice video
I love you Land Rover
Best cars ever
The Land Rover really didn't require much innovation nor thought ...the leftover Jeeps from the war were the primary source of powered work, travel & farm industry thru out the UK, designing a similar type vehicle was easy as they had a design template right in front of them. For the US, transporting all 300,000+ of those Jeeps back across the Atlantic to the states would have been foolish, so the entire inventory was sold off at bargain prices & the veteran jeeps went back to work. Maurice & Spencer Wilks of Rover actually used an old surplus Jeep chassis in the development of their own utility inspired vehicle, the Land Rover. As the UK no longer was building war-aircraft the Aluminium was used for the Land Rovers bodies.
My dream car....
Oh Man, Glück muss man es habe......
Weird they left out that the Disco 2 ACE system in low range makes the sway bar have more play for articulation also
I had a Range Rover Vogue years ago but I was too poor to maintain it so it had to go. It was brilliant across country, really luxuriously comfortable but jeez it was thirsty and pricey to maintain. Now I have a 2.25 petrol Series 3 88” and a Defender 110 SW Puma. The S3 is fun charming and a great little truck but it’s never going to be suitable as a modern utility or family car. Times change and people’s expectations change. The Defender is just as capable off road but comfortable, quieter, more economical and faster and fully useable for any situation. If I ever had a decent windfall I’d have another Range Rover or a new Defender like a shot. They can do anything that most people would ever ask of them, in fact probably more, but they’ll do it in luxury and safely. Thank God for the original Landies but I think it’s magnificent to see how they’ve evolved. For all the officianodos there are still plenty of the Series vehicles to play with but for the rest of the world the whole range from Evoque to Disco to Defender to Range Rover open up a new world of possibilities to join the Landie club. Keep evolving Land Rover - you’re doing a great job of developing the legacy in my opinion.
Range Rover 1 had weak door hinges. My dad had one, left the door open in the shed, left the hand break off, the car rolled backwards a metre and hit a pillar and the door broke off. I laughed my head off...dad was running around swearing like I had never heard him before.
super!
I recall Fiennes from the film, Enemy at the gates.
In this video is Sir Ranulph Fiennes,one of (if not the greatest) explorers in the world! Ralph Fiennes is his cousin who is an actor.
I drive a disco 300 tdi its a pleasure to drive goes anywere never lets me down .... It gets lots of preventative maintenance and i cant see myself parting with it ...
Does anybody know some of the filming locations are??
See recent mission to duplicate the Welsh location footage.
素晴らしい～秀樹感激Goodです=3
9:50 was Unimog released before Land Rover?
The Panama Canal had built by 1914. We have a 2019 Mitsubishi SUV.
The narrator keeps saying that the Landrover is permanent four wheel drive. Well my 1955 long wheel base Landrover pickup truck had two wheel drive as the norm but you could push the yellow lever near your feet vertically which engaged four wheel drive if things got slippery and pulling the other lever next to the yellow one would give you low ratio and four wheel drive. Used it to go skiing for years. Never got stuck and people with normal cars were always keen to ride on the back when the snow got deep and slippery.
Roger Surf I didn’t think they had “permanent 4wd”!
Would have all locked up on the bitumen. Was years later before they introduced the centre differential and therefore permanent 4wd
@@Rick-FordGPW Very early series 1s were permanent 4x4 with a freewheeling on the front transmission. The selectable type came out after a year or two of production.
Interesting, I thought they would have had a selectable front drive in or out as did the WW2 jeeps! Learn something new everyday, thank you.
@@onetonlandrover The freewheeling setup was also used on the GM Dues & a half between 1952 & 1959 I believe.
@@n.mcneil4066 I've no experience of those vehicles so will have to take your word for it. 👍
22:38 LAND CRUISER RESCUE FOR LAND ROVER!?!?
the British wont hear this!
bonjour existe t'il en français ou du moins sous titré français ?
merci à vous .
💖
12:06
great film
Thank you.
When I was with the USAF, in 1958, I saw the first land rover. One had broken down and these New Zealand guys were waiting for a part from England. I may have ridden on one but really, I don't remember. When I was in England in 1959, I stood near a woman asked asked what that place was. She said manson house in a cockney accent.
you can tell this is a very old video because sir ranulph finnes stil have all his fingers.
True mud, snow and water: But why have the doorwindow down all the time?
What was censored at 55 minutes for the USA market?
Just think you can see the 2020 defender mock up in the backgroundin 2015 and nobody noticed
Those old guys looked mortified at the plans for the future. Now we know why.
Mr Crathorne is STILL on the payroll !
Actually I think they jumped out
What year was this film made please .
Cool
Did anyone els see the new defender at 53:46
At 0:16 "...or to walk where no man has ever been before."
Shows ancient structures where thousands of people (who built them) walked for centuries. hmmm..
The Range Rover had a Buick V8 engine, a good solution for all. I thought the Panama Canal had been built in 1914.
Have owned a series 2a and a series 3 lightweight both fantastic vehicles, it's such a shame that Land Rovers and Rang Rovers have become nothing more than a designer handbag on wheels.