| The Car Fleet In this section you will find information and - for some - photo's of the difering cars we have owned |
Hobbies and Interests In here you can find information on the various sports enjoyed as well as my personal tastes in reading material, Science Fiction/Fantasy and other interests |
| Alvis Stalwart Information on the Alvis Stalwart 6x6 5 ton High Mobility Load Carrier - both general details and particulars of Little Maud - my very own Mk2 FV622 model |
Saab's Saab cars - both classic and modern - are covered in here. We've owned a few now and feel they are the safest cars on the market. |
| Caravanning We are keen caravanners and at least once a month we will be out with our caravan for either a weekend away as a stress breaker or attending an organized rally with our friends from the on-line caravanning forum "Touring and Tenting" |
Personal The start pages go through photo's of family and fiends, details of my career to date as well as our religion. |
Air Portable Landover
The Air Portable - or lightweight - Landrover was introduced as part of the big push towards air mobility for the Armed Forces. First ones were Series 2A derivatives followed by Series 3's
We used these as troop or unit run-abouts The vehicle was basically an 88" Landrover that had been narrowed and stripped down as far as possible to reduce the weight to less than 2,500 Kg. Probably the closest thing to a racing Landrover the Armed Forces had
They first saw service around 1968 in Series 2A guise with the Series 3 version coming in from 1973. Series 2A's had the headlamps in the rad grill whereas the Series 3's had tem on the front wings as per the photo above. Another aspect of the narrowing actions was that the A/P variants would fit on a standard NATO pallet!
The airportable has now been replaced in service by the Wolf and the military versions of the Defender 90 and 110