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Version: 2017-05-04

To Willem

CONTENTS

LAND ROVER

The Series I, II, IIa, III, 90, 110 and Defender are all members of the iconic ‘boxy’ Land Rover genre, first produced in 1948, with the current version called Land Rover Defender.

To avoid any confusion, in this book I will sometimes refer to them all using Defender as a collective noun. Please don’t hate me.