• Belgian-built Land Rover • Rare ambulance variant • Supplied new to the Belgian Army • Restored in 2012 • Offered from a private collection of Series I Land Rovers Lacking the resources to produce a new car of its own after WW2, Minerva engaged in a series of collaborations with British manufacturers, assembling the Standard Vanguard saloon under license and then concluding a deal with Rover for the assembly of Land Rovers for the Belgian Army.

Commencing in 1952, the 80"-wheelbase Land Rovers were supplied as 'CKD' (Completely Knocked Down) kits of running gear, which Minerva then bodied in steel at its Antwerp factory to meet the Belgian Army's requirements.

British-built Land Rovers had aluminium bodies and there were numerous stylistic differences between the British and Belgian versions, most obviously the front wings.

The running gear, though, was all Series I Land Rover.

The vast majority of vehicles produced were 80" models which went to the Belgian military.

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