In the August issue of Land Rover Owners International there is a pic of a Llama Land Rover does anyone no anything about these eg running gear
or who they were built for and what they were used for.
Cheers Kev
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Llama Land Rover
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Llama Land Rover
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Dont take this as gospel Defender Kev but I vaguely remember that the
Lhama suffered numerous mechanical failures during testing for the British Army and LandRover had some British competition for a change in the form of a broadly similar vehicle built by Reynolds Boughton. Without a military contract there wasn't enough civilian sales potential to make production viable.
Bill.
Lhama suffered numerous mechanical failures during testing for the British Army and LandRover had some British competition for a change in the form of a broadly similar vehicle built by Reynolds Boughton. Without a military contract there wasn't enough civilian sales potential to make production viable.
Bill.
....I had the priveledge of being able to see four of the Llama prototypes at the Dunsfold Weekend last year in UK....very interesting trucks.
What Bill says is absolutely right....plus (as is typical of Rover history..), this project also suffered from horrendous 'bean-counter' interference....
(.."You can't have more money to beef this 'experiment' up......we'd have to drop 'chunder yellow' from the Disco production line for that..What do you mean..squaddies are hard on gear; the Army is only one customer, there are thousands on the high street...".)
What Bill says is absolutely right....plus (as is typical of Rover history..), this project also suffered from horrendous 'bean-counter' interference....
(.."You can't have more money to beef this 'experiment' up......we'd have to drop 'chunder yellow' from the Disco production line for that..What do you mean..squaddies are hard on gear; the Army is only one customer, there are thousands on the high street...".)
daddylonglegs wrote:Once again I also vaguely remember reading a critique in a British mag where the author said "only a complete idiot would present the Lhama for army evaluation fitted with a 2.5 litre engine and the LT77 gearbox. Rover did !!! "
Bill.
The article in the link says it had a 3.5V8 and LT85 - but maybe that was a later prototype?
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RUFF wrote:Beally STFU Your becoming a real PITA.
...I think all the Dunsfold ones are V8's, but according to Philip Bashall (who does the guided tours round the collection), the V8 was used as they had no suitable diesel powerful enough & the bean-counters would'nt hear
of a non-Rover engine being used....
He felt a 300 tdi would have done the job if correctly geared.
of a non-Rover engine being used....
He felt a 300 tdi would have done the job if correctly geared.
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