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Manufacturers

Manufacturers and coachbuilders

The 322 firms that built or converted the vehicles in this registry: licence manufacturers, coachbuilders, armourers, converters and military workshops, which produced fire appliances, armoured cars, ambulances and military variants on the Land Rover chassis. Land Rover itself is not listed, as it is the base manufacturer of nearly every record.

322MAKERS 5KINDS OF MAKER 38COUNTRIES 1773OLDEST FIRM 1225VEHICLES ATTRIBUTED

Where the vehicles came from · share of the 1225 vehicles with a named maker

01144 MAKERS · 1045 VEHICLES

Vehicle builders

Firms that built whole Land Rovers rather than bodies for them — under licence, from CKD kits, or as a local derivative that drifted a long way from Solihull. Ford Motor Company, Toyota Motor Corporation and American Motors Corporation ran production lines, not conversion shops, which is why a handful of firms here account for 1045 of the registry's vehicles.

ManufacturerAssemblerBuilder
Ford Lynx (Canada, 1942–45)Toyota Blizzard LD10 (1981–84)M715 1¼-ton truckCherokee XJ Limited
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0244 MAKERS · 138 VEHICLES

Bodywork

Coachbuilders and conversion specialists that built ambulance, fire appliance, motor caravan and command-post bodies on the Land Rover chassis cab or hard top. Several were building horse-drawn bodies before the Land Rover existed: Martin Walter Ltd from 1773, Tickford Ltd from 1820, Carmichael & Sons from 1849 and Penman Engineering from 1859.

CoachbuilderConverter
Toyota Jeep BJUK Marshal Body AmbulanceSearle Estate WagonTACR2
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The 5 largest

Also Foley Specialist Vehicles, HCB-Angus, Sandringham Motor Company, State Engineering, Durisotti and Herbert Lomas Ltd and 33 more.

0320 MAKERS · 55 VEHICLES

Defence & engineering

Armourers, defence contractors and engineering consultancies rather than bodyshops: firms that added ballistic or composite plate, re-engineered a chassis for a military order, or fitted the equipment that gave a working Land Rover its job — the armour of the Shorland and the Snatch, the WMIK weapons mount, the remotely driven Panama, the breakdown-truck crane.

ArmourerDefence contractorEngineeringDesign houseMotorsport
Spectre Defender SVXSEB Hotspur 6×6 Cherry PickerBulldogWolf WMIK
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The 5 largest

Also SVOS spol. s r.o., OVIK, AWA Defence Industries, BAE Systems Australia, Bill Stroppe & Associates and British Army Motoring Association and 9 more.

0462 MAKERS · 118 ITEMS

Equipment

Makers of the equipment fitted to, towed by or driven from a Land Rover rather than of the vehicle itself: winches and power take-off drives, trailers, roof racks, armour and radio installation kits, wheels and tyres. GKN Sankey, Harvey Frost & Co. and Chubb Fire account for the most items. 118 items in the equipment index resolve to a maker here, each with its production years, price where recorded and sources.

Equipment maker
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The 5 largest

Also Aeon Products, Aeroparts Engineering, Alfred Bullows & Sons, ARB 4x4 Accessories, Ashcroft Transmissions and Atlas Copco and 51 more.

0513 MAKERS · 18 VEHICLES

Workshops

Vehicles built by the people who operated them. Police, army and utility workshops rebuilt, armoured and reconfigured Land Rovers in-house — the Royal Ulster Constabulary designed and built its own armoured cars at Seapark, and the Post Office fitted out its own field fleet — and the restorers and restomod builders at the end of the list are doing the same job in reverse.

Military workshopPolice workshopOperator workshopRestorerRestomod builder
Land Rover TangiGPO Station Wagon Type 3Tithonus life-extension DefenderBAOR ceremonial / security 88
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The 5 largest

Also Defence Support Group, John Brown 4x4, RAEME 3 Base Workshop, REME / SEME Bordon, REME 10 Airborne Workshop and Spanish Army Jefatura de Transmisiones and 2 more.

0639 MAKERS · 66 VEHICLES

Other

39 makers whose trade fits none of the groups above.

SAMIL 20 Mk IIFord Lynx (Canada, 1942–45)Carrier, Machine Gun, Local Pattern No. 1 (LP1, Australia)Universal Carrier MG, Local Pattern No. 2 (LP2, Australia)
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130 MAKERSUnited KingdomBowler, Vickers-Armstrongs, Guy Motors Ltd, Fallings Park, Wolverhampton and 127 more.31 MAKERSUnited StatesFord Motor Company, American Motors Corporation, Chrysler (Jeep), Toledo and 28 more.20 MAKERSFranceCitroën, ACMAT, Saint-Nazaire, Panhard, Marolles-en-Hurepoix and 17 more.17 MAKERSAustraliaJRA Limited, Pressed Metal Corporation, Ford Motor Company of Australia and 14 more.16 MAKERSGermanyMercedes-Benz, Magirus-Deutz, Ulm, Fried. Krupp AG, Essen and 13 more.12 MAKERSRussiaUlyanovsk Automobile Plant, Kamaz, Naberezhnye Chelny, Gorky Automobile Plant and 9 more.11 MAKERSJapanToyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Auto Body, Nissan, Yokohama and 8 more.9 MAKERSSouth AfricaTruckmakers, Rosslyn, Pretoria, Armscor, Pretoria, Ford, Silverton, Pretoria and 6 more.8 MAKERSItalyFiat, Turin, Iveco, Turin, Lamborghini, Sant'Agata Bolognese and 5 more.6 MAKERSCanadaFord Motor Company of Canada, General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada, London, Ontario, ARGO, Ontario and 3 more.6 MAKERSSpainSantana Motor, FIMESA, Hisparo, Spain and 3 more.5 MAKERSSwitzerlandMowag, Kreuzlingen, Bucher-Guyer AG, Niederweningen, Automobile Monteverdi and 2 more.4 MAKERSBrazilRenault do Brasil, São José dos Pinhais, Toyota do Brasil, Cross Lander, Brazil and 1 more.4 MAKERSCzech RepublicŠkoda, Mladá Boleslav, SVOS spol. s r.o., Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk (ČKD), Prague and 1 more.4 MAKERSUkraineLuAZ, Lutsk, SHERP, Kyiv, ZAZ, Zaporizhia and 1 more.3 MAKERSIndiaMahindra & Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki, Gurgaon and Renault India, Chennai.3 MAKERSPortugalUnião Metalo-Mecânica (UMM), Lisbon, Movauto, Setúbal and Portaro, Portugal.3 MAKERSRomaniaARO (Uzina Mecanică Muscel), Câmpulung, Automobile Dacia, Mioveni and Romturingia, Câmpulung Muscel.3 MAKERSThailandFord Motor Company (Thailand), Rayong, Isuzu Motors (Thailand), Samrong and Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand), Laem Chabang.2 MAKERSAustriaMagna Steyr (Steyr-Daimler-Puch), Graz and Marte Feuerwehrfahrzeuge.2 MAKERSBelgiumMinerva and FN (Fabrique Nationale), Herstal.2 MAKERSNetherlandsNederlandse Kaiser-Frazer Fabrieken and Polynorm.2 MAKERSNew ZealandGeneral Motors New Zealand, Lower Hutt and New Zealand Railways, Hutt Workshops.2 MAKERSSouth KoreaHyundai Precision & Industry, Ulsan and Doosan Infracore.2 MAKERSSwedenVolvo and Aktiv-Fischer, Åmål.2 MAKERSTurkeyBMC, İzmir and Otokar.1 MAKERArgentinaVolkswagen, General Pacheco.1 MAKERColombiaSOFASA.1 MAKEREgyptArab American Vehicles.1 MAKERHungaryCsepel Car Factory, Budapest.1 MAKERIcelandArctic Trucks.1 MAKERIndonesiaAstra Daihatsu Motor, Jakarta.1 MAKERIsraelPlasan, Kibbutz Sasa.1 MAKERMexicoChrysler de México.1 MAKERNorwayRaufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker.1 MAKERPolandTEAM Marek Pasierbski.1 MAKERSerbiaZastava, Kragujevac.1 MAKERSlovakiaVolkswagen Bratislava.

About this index

Attribution

A vehicle often passed through more than one of these firms. A 109 might leave Solihull as a chassis cab, gain a box body at a coachbuilder, be fitted with ballistic plate by an armourer, and end its life rebuilt by a base workshop with parts from three earlier vehicles.

Where a record names two makers, both appear here and the vehicle is counted against each: 1544 attributions across 1225 vehicles. The counts in this index are therefore a measure of involvement, not of production. Each maker is filed above under its principal trade; the role filter on the browse page also finds the firms that did that work alongside another.

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Makers with a single record

95 of the 322 makers in this index are known here from a single vehicle. Catalogues, order books, works photographs and chassis plates are the most useful evidence.