Series Land Rovers:
How they came into Australia.

Ron Beckett records
how Series Land Rovers came out of the factory in Australia;
a bright yellow SWB with wide Sunraysia white spoke wheels
and a bull bar. Anyone still have one like this?
Or do you have one of THESE?
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Similar to the British
SAS "Pink Panthers"
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Ron notes that the most obvious
difference is the spare wheel placement and the lack of the
splayed smoke grenade launch tubes.
Apparently the chassis was
lengthened at the front to carry jerry cans of water in addition
to the visible water jerry cans beside the soldiers. In total,
they carried 160 litres of water because they would be operating
in the dry northern Australia. The total fuel capacity was
360 litres in fuel tanks, not jerry cans.
Armament was the crew's usual automatic weapons
plus a M60 7.62mm machine gun on mounts over the bonnet or
.30 calibre machine guns in the rear.