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Quote from: autorover1 on Today at 11:09 AMLand Rover used some 5th wheel 88" vehicles in the factory for moving round trailers with, I think,  body panels . When the 90 came out they had a similar set up but with the Boge Hydrostrut from the One Ten on the rear A frame . I am not sure if the 88" was a Dixon Bate or in house LR job. 

Interesting, do any pictures exist of these vehicles?

I have not seen any press pictures and I  was not allowed to take a camera to work & it was before the mobile phone

Just been through this with my 109. For information, only S3 fully threaded rods are available through all the usual suppliers now. So quite likely a PO will have fitted S3 type.

As said, always wise to check. I remember a fatality was caused a few years ago by a failure caused by a detaching track rod end, causing loss of control and a bad crash.

It would be nice if there was some relaxation of "data protection" rules the DVLA have adopted, so it was possible to trace the history of Historic Vehicles in your ownership without a blanket "NO" (unless you are a car clamper).

Interesting article https://blog.royalhistsoc.org/2021/04/12/data-protection-and-historical-research-the-basics/

Perhaps this doesnt come under the remit of the current DVLA review

Land Rover Series 2a ex Sydney electricity.
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whitehillbilly

My read was that one of the main points of this exercise was to remove electrification modifications of classis cars (to engine, transmission plus any simultaneous beefing up of suspension, axles etc) from the 'radically altered vehicle' Q plate totting-up system, thereby doing whatever they can to get us all hooked up to the grid.

The link below offers guidance from the Federation of British Historic Vehicle clubs  of which we are a member

https://evidence.fbhvc.co.uk/

Please read

Peter

The conversions were by Dixon bate, on an 88" which would have been supplied as a chassis cab.
Not so sure on the 109" conversion as there are no clear images of it, but again it would have been a factory chassis cab.
These were not exclusive to electricity boards, in fact aside from the two in the photos I've not seen any others.

Quote from: Twomokes on Today at 09:52 AMThe ones used in the company's publicity in period were Dixon Bates conversations as in the screen grabs above.

The Dixon-Bate ones appear all to be 88", the Electricity Board ones look to be 109" with 9.00x16 tyres. I wonder if they were made in house or Dixon-Bate.

Quote from: autorover1 on Today at 11:09 AMLand Rover used some 5th wheel 88" vehicles in the factory for moving round trailers with, I think,  body panels . When the 90 came out they had a similar set up but with the Boge Hydrostrut from the One Ten on the rear A frame . I am not sure if the 88" was a Dixon Bate or in house LR job. 

Interesting, do any pictures exist of these vehicles?

Land Rover used some 5th wheel 88" vehicles in the factory for moving round trailers with, I think,  body panels . When the 90 came out they had a similar set up but with the Boge Hydrostrut from the One Ten on the rear A frame . I am not sure if the 88" was a Dixon Bate or in house LR job.