
A Surviving Roadless Forest Rover ex Hydrology Institute
FUD 815C is a Roadless Traction Ltd conversion of a 109" Land Rover to high clearance version using non standard axles to replace the Land Rover ones. The vehicles is often called a Roadless 109" Forest Rover. the conversion was approved by Land Rover after extensive testing.
History[]
This Land Rover based conversion was consigned to auction by Russell, Baldwin and Bright at Leominster on the 15th of February 2000, by the original owners The Hydrology Institute". They bought 2 originally and latter some spare parts including a pair of axles which are with the vehicle.[1] The vehicle had only done 35,000 miles and had had extensive refurbishment work done, with new bulkhead and chassis members fitted.
The vehicle passed into the ownership of Dave Pantry, the Roadless company owner at that time (2000).
The Land Rover attended the Roadless 90 event in September 2009.
It has now been put up for sale by Dave at Auction in November 2009 as he is disposing of some of his collection of vehicles, to concentrate on his tractor collection.
A second machine was previously sold off by the Hydrology institute and went to Scotland in about 1995.[2]
See also[]
- Roadless Traction Ltd
- Land Rover
- Special Purpose Truck
- John Bownes Ltd - Current Roadless parts Agents & custodian of the Roadless records.
- Clubs Listing
- Roadless Owners Register
References / sources[]
- The Roadless Story, Stuart Gibbard
- ↑ http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeLand-Rover/2000s/2000.01.17.Roadless.html From an Email about sale and works done to machine]
- ↑ http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeLand-Rover/2000s/2000.01.17.Roadless.html Email note
External links[]
- Roadless.co.uk official web site
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