The Series I had its start in the lean years of postwar Britain, which was still subject to food rations, when Land Rover was still just Rover -- a maker of plush sedans in the prewar years that ...
When Maurice Wilks cobbled together the first prototype Land Rover in 1948, with bodywork made from aluminium left over from wartime aircraft production, Jeep running gear and a Rover gearbox, he was ...