• DocumentCode
    14868
  • Title

    Land rover series I - Classic project [Time OuT Blueprint]

  • Author

    Smith, Nadia

  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Jun-13
  • Firstpage
    100
  • Lastpage
    100
  • Abstract
    A DRAMATIC advert appearing in a 1953 edition of Punch magazine sees the Land Rover copy-writers in full swing. In it they claim that the Series I, an off-road utility vehicle that had been conceived as being somewhere between a Jeep and a tractor, was capable of "...pulling anything, the 4-wheel drive Land-Rover can take it. All over the world, the Land-Rover stands for mobility, endurance, toughness". Accompanied by an extraordinary illustration of a vehicle crashing through the sand dunes of Namibia\´s Skeleton Coast, the advertisement speaks from an era where hyperbole was the norm. If you\´ve ever been on a game-watching safari in Africa and have been thrown around on ungraded tracks, you\´ll know that even Land Rovers can be victims of adverse driving conditions.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering & Technology
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1750-9637
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/et.2013.0536
  • Filename
    6548358