AA Road Service Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top PYU 15 in the association's yellow with a black roof and black front wing sides, AA badges on the wings and hard-top sides and ROAD SERVICE lettering — one of the radio patrol Land Rovers the AA spread from London to Birmingham and Leeds in the 1950s.
BASE VEHICLESeries I 88″BUILT BYRover Company (Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top)IN SERVICE1954–58OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONunknownLAYOUT4 wheels · 88″
The record
After the success of its first Land Rover with the London Night Patrols in 1949, the Automobile Association extended radio-equipped Land Rover patrols to Birmingham in 1951 and Leeds in 1952, and through the decade the yellow Land Rovers became the face of the AA's Road Service. The 88-inch hard tops carried a two-way radio, tools, fuel and a spare on the bonnet, and wore the yellow-and-black scheme with the AA badge on each front wing and on the hard-top sides above ROAD SERVICE.
PYU 15 is documented by Oxford Diecast's 1:43 (LAN188019) and 1:76 (76LAN188019) models of the vehicle, which are the references here: yellow body and hard-top sides, black roof and black-painted front wing sides, bonnet spare, AA badges on both wing fronts and both hard-top sides, ROAD SERVICE on the hard-top sides, PYU 15 on the front bumper and black steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle in the Breakdown group; the size of the AA's Series I fleet is not given in the sources.
Specification
MANUFACTURERRover Company (Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top)
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERThe Automobile Association (radio patrol fit and livery)
MANUFACTUREDSeries I 86/88-inch hard top, mid-1950s; PYU registration
PRODUCTION RUNunknown (part of the AA's 1950s Road Service fleet)
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSunknown
REGISTRATIONPYU 15
FITTINGSTwo-way radio, bonnet spare, hard top
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESeries I
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE88″
CATEGORYSpecial · Breakdown
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Imagery
No published image yetA rendering impression or a free-licence photograph will appear here once one is published — the sources below link to photographs elsewhere
Where it was
GB United Kingdom1955–1968 · AA Road Service radio patrols
BuiltLand Rover, Lode Lane, SolihullUnited Kingdom · 1954–195852.43, -1.78
