I park next to this trailer / caravan / horsebox thing on a farm in Worcestershire every week and have always wondered what it actually is. I have searched google but have never found any military vehicle that looks similar. Of course, the paint scheme may have been applied for a laugh and it isn’t military at all, just a regular horsebox. Up close, it looks really primitive and like it was made in a shed so the fantasist in me dreams that it is a lump of Stirling fuselage that was hacked to pieces to be a turned into a trailer!
Can anyone on here identify this and confirm whether or not it was once a military vehicle?
By: Alan Key - 16th June 2017 at 12:16
Interesting that it could be pretty rare and of potential interest to restorers. I assume the owners have a good idea what it is as this isn’t one of those farms that is just full of generations of junk and scrap. The whole farm is very well maintained and tidy and this actually looks a bit out of place so they appear to be deliberately looking after it. I’ll try to have a chat with them about it next time I visit.
By: Supermarine305 - 16th June 2017 at 09:33
Hunterfx382 is close, much closer than I could find online. But that box is taller, might explain why the roof is different.
Also a closer look at that pictire reveals what I wrote to be gibberish.
There is that little bit that has been cut out lower down just behind where the cab would go. That doesn’t make sense unless this has been adapted to fit another vehicle at some point
There is a panel line just visible in Hunter’s image where that cut-out is.
By: Archer - 16th June 2017 at 07:37
Give them some time and they’ll rebuild a Land Rover from that! Or will it be a replica….:cool:
By: J Boyle - 16th June 2017 at 06:01
Post a thread on a Land Rover/Defender or military vehicle site….you might come up with a exact purpose, user or other information.
By: hunterxf382 - 15th June 2017 at 21:39
I can’t say for certain though – it’s just come up as the closest match so far….. what puzzled me was the more rounded front upper corners in your shots Alan. You say it’s on a farm in Worcestershire – I appreciate the owner might not want it known too much, or they might be unaware that it has the potential to be a rarity too?
I wonder if there are other body conversions of a similar kind for six wheelers as the vehicle type seems to match at least?
By: Alan Key - 15th June 2017 at 20:07
Thanks guys – Land Rover it is. After the first couple of replies I went back to google and found a few similar looking ones but not quite the exact version. Hunterfx382 I think you have identified it exactly – that looks bang on.
By: hunterxf382 - 15th June 2017 at 19:55
Having asked over on a Mil Land Rover facebook group, a possible lead that it might be a Hotspur 139″ conversion body…[ATTACH=CONFIG]254119[/ATTACH]
By: antiqueaviation - 15th June 2017 at 18:29
Looks very much like one of the options on the old Land Rover Forward Control – were it not for the location of the tank filler.
By: Supermarine305 - 15th June 2017 at 14:19
Looks like if fell off the back of a Defender to me.
The little curve along the side and the space for the filler cap looks to be in the right place.
Long wheel arch as well. A six wheeler? How many of those were made?
But I can’t see any holes in the back to affix lights. There is that little bit that has been cut out lower down just behind where the cab would go. That doesn’t make sense unless this has been adapted to fit another vehicle at some point.
Edit: Pipped to the post. That’s what I get for taking an age to write a reply.
By: Moggy C - 15th June 2017 at 14:14
Looks Land Rover to me. Filler is in the correct place, but the wheel arch seems to indicate it might be a six wheeler
Moggy
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