"Another piece I did during the research for ‘They Found Our Engineer’ back in 2009/10. How did the long wheel base Land Rovers originate as the 107” in 1954? This question came about when interviewing Arthur Goddard and he mentioned that the first prototype long wheel base wasn’t 107” but shorter. We sort of knew that this first vehicle (shown here) was obviously shorter in the photo. The only other clue from the time was an odd draft drawing of the rear of a 104” Land Rover chassis. But the real question was how do you get from 104” to 107”. Unfortunately Arthur couldn’t recall. The clue ended up being in the dimensions of the 86” and how they added to the vehicle 3” to the rear chassis spring mount and 3” in the rear spring over an 80”. So simply put the 86” rear spring dimensions on the 104” and you get 107”! So the original idea for a long wheel base Land Rover was to simply put 24” onto 80”. I love these old photos, especially the prototype vehicle from 1949/50 with its deluxe Cab. The very early 107 pictured is equally optioned with a radio and tropical roof" By @260ac . #landrover #landroverseries #serieslandrover #landroverseries1 #landrover107 #landrover109 #classiccars #worktruck #classictruck #vintage4x4 #landrover110 #landroveruk #oldphotos #oldpictures @ Solihull https://www.instagram.com/p/CAISk5TBZgn/?igshid=idxxd3fugd1h
