BEA 88" Special Land Rover

[Craig T]

I do wonder if the conveyor was used on the farm it looks like you found it on. A conveyor like that is a great thing to get hay bales up into the top of a hay barn.

Nice photo of a VC10 up there as well. Brookland Museum has a VC10 on display as they were built there although it's not a BOAC or BEA aircraft, it's the Oman royal flight one. There is a BOAC one at Duxford museum though.

Craig.

[Tom_W]

PLEASE save it !
Even with some of the parts missing it's still an interesting vehicle and probably the only one left ?
I have always been amazed by these factory-approved conversions and other professionally built oddities.

Good luck with this project.

Tom

[diffwhine]

Thanks Tom,
The chap who actually owns it now recognises what it is and its rarity. No decisions yet, but we will rescue from where it now sits and assess options. As I said earlier, it won't be scrapped, but this would not be a cheap restoration.

It would be nice to show it somehow, but that would mean loading it onto a trailer and carting it about as is for a bit. We shall see...

I'm going to do a bit of research and look out for any other vehicles built by Precision Engineering Products in Suffolk (now sadly disappeared). Somebody may have something similar on another platform at some sort of aviation museum or in some crackpot private collection.

[Craig T]

Hopefully this chap won't think it's now worth it's weight in gold!
It may be a rare thing but at the end of the day, it's probably worth less than a normal Land Rover as it would only appeal to someone who has deep pockets to restore it or someone who wants to rip of the chassis ID and attach it to a Defender!

Fingers crossed you do save it and get it somewhere more secure for a future restoration.

Craig.

[diffwhine]

The chap who owns it knows his classic cars and runs a specialist garage. Nobody is under any illusion on this one. Personally I think its a vehicle of interest only and probably will be stabilised, but we cannot really see any justification for trying to rebuild it. We shall see how bad it is when we dig it out of its slumbers. If it had the loading platform and belt mechanism, it might be more realistic, but its missing the key component which defines what it is.

[Exile]

Sounds like it should go to the Dunsfold Museum.

With suitable publicity, it is surprising what bits for it might come out of the woodwork (or nettles, or scrapyard, or someone's back garden....).