Land Rovers in British Military Service - coil sprung models 1970 to 2007

From Amazon 

For anyone interested in the coil-sprung Land Rovers that have served (and still serve) with the British armed forces, this book is a must. It covers first-generation Range Rover and Discovery models, as well as the One Ten, Ninety and One Two Seven, their Defender successors and, of course the Wolf XD derivatives. Coverage deliberately ends at 2007 to respect current military sensibilities. This unique and extensively illustrated book describes and illustrates British military use and adaptations of these vehicles, and also contains comprehensive vehicle lists and contract details. The book is a sequel to British Military Land Rovers, the leaf-sprung models, by the same two authors (published by Herridge & Sons in 2015).

From Me 

The first book clarified a lot of the history of Land Rover Ambulances and I had the privilege of getting some advanced information from the Authors which I was able to use on the Land Rover Ambulance History page.

Now I have received the book and it looks to have even more wonderful information that I am sure will compliment and clarify the details .. I need to read it cover to cover now and then do an update which will be in line with fair use principals - if you want to read it all I highly recommend the book

To Purchase 

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Katy goes to Blackpool Rd!!!

This post is for Ceris and Jim

Excellent hosts with s drive that is JUST big enough!

Katy is in a lot better condition and was a lot better behaved than last time she was in Preston, the day after we bought her

The Unknown North

Rhian had always wanted to visit Northumberland, but for various reasons it had not happened

So this was the year for the adventure. Northumberland is a wonderful and mostly under populated county. After a number of castles, one of the classic places to visit is Holy Island so we did, and here is some evidence.

We did not stop there other than for the picture and that was when there was no traffic coming onto the island so we were not in anyone's way while we did.

The way you get there (and back) is the tidal causeway which we had plenty of time to admire because we were not daft enough to leave it until the last minute to try and get off the island

It only took a few minutes for a "baby Land Rover" to come and obey parking rules ... its amazing how small a Discovery looks next to Katy. 

After some days at the coast we headed inland and our next stop was Kielder firest where the only rain we had on the trip interrupted our planning a little. There was a crash on the main road to the forest and lucky for the owner of a Mercedes camper van we were directed onto the back roads 

They had tried to be nice and gone onto the verge to let someone past which is not a good idea in a 3 ton 2 wheel drive vehicle with road tyres. The people trying to push it were getting nowhere fast and it was just digging in so they were really pleased to see us arrive with Katy and a suitably strong piece of rope. 

Knots done..

A bit of reverse gear...

out it popped..

The owner was really happy to have been rescued by the UN! 

After that we made our way down to Hadrian's Wall where some almost unbroken sunshine made up for the poor weather we had just had. No Katy in these as she had to stay in the car parks... nice bit of walling though 

And the obligatory picture of Sycamore gap. I'm almost shocked there is not a post in the ground stating "take picture from here" the number of people who must have done so