Kevin Isemonger reports from the Land Rover 75th anniversary.
The history: in 1947, two brothers, Maurice Wilks - the Chief Engineer at the Rover Car Company, and his brother Spencer Wilks, Managing Director of the Rover car Company had a conversation, with Spencer asking Maurice what he was going to do when his WW2 Jeep died. It was being used as the primary workhorse around the family farm at Anglesey on the northwest coast of Wales.
“Buy another one - there’s nothing else.”
Steel was in short supply following the war and could only be attained