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1968 Land Rover Series IIa ‘Firefly’ Fire Engine

United Kingdom • 7 Mar 2020 • Lot 260

Vehicle Details

AI Listing Summary

This is a Series IIa Land Rover, originally a Ministry of Defence vehicle, converted into a fire engine in 1969. It served with various organizations, including the Strathclyde Fire Service and Rolls-Royce, before being sold to a collector.

Condition

4

The vehicle is currently SORN and requires recommissioning. It has blue flashing lights and horns that have not been tested, and the history is a little hazy.

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Transmission:

[Transmission]

Chassis No:

3300016D

Odometer:

[Odometer Reading]

Reg Number:

Q330 NPP

RHD/LHD:

RHD

The Series IIa Land Rover is considered by many the most hardy series model constructed.

It is quite possibly also the type of classic Land Rover that features strongly in the general public's perception of the Land Rover, from its many appearances in popular films and television documentaries set in Africa throughout the 1960s, such as Born Free.

Certainly it was whilst the Series IIa was in production that sales of utility Land Rovers reached their peak, in 1969-1970, when sales of over 60,000 Land Rovers a year were recorded.

This particular vehicle is based on a Land Rover Series II, on a forward control chassis, which were primarily bought by the Ministry of Defence.

As far as we know, it rolled off the production line in Solihull in the West Midlands, probably as a cab and dropside body and subsequently was delivered to the Ministry of Defence.

It seems that this vehicle remained with the MOD for some time until it was sent to the fire engine experts HCB Angus who converted ...