Re: SER1 Land Rover family tree update

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Dear Diana and All,

Although far from being a Rover,  Model T "pickups" were sold and  
manufactured all over the world, including Canada and the UK, so we  
might push the age of the "Ute" even further back.  It is certainly  
arguable as to where the body work was really done, but the same  
style turns up in links to Canada, South Africa, and the States.  No  
controversy intended, I just love old trucks and mine happens to be  
an 80" Rover
Wayne

http://www.dyna.co.za/cars/Ford_19_T_Pickup.jpg
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/f1001501.htm
http://www.modelt.ca/1914Tpickup-fs.html


On Feb 2, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Eighty Inch wrote:

> Ike
>
> I did say that: " I don't know that Land Rover ever called them  
> "pick ups" "
> and am sorry about the misleading date, it was 1934 when the worlds  
> first
> production ute rolled off the assembly line - anything before that  
> was an
> after market modification by individual owners or coach builders.
> http://www.utes.com.au/index.php? 
> option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=101
>
> and in Australia Land Rovers of that type were and still are always  
> called
> "Utes".
>
> Our Land Rovers also don't have "fenders" which are things that  
> protect
> boats and only aircraft (and a few racing cars) have "wings".
>
> So the debate does go on.
>
> Cheerio  :o))))
> Diana
> -
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <lemurstew@xxx.xxx>
> To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:27 AM
> Subject: Re: SER1 Land Rover family tree update
>
>
> Not much of a debate really:
> http://www.pangolin4x4.com/pickup.jpg
> There were pickups LONG before 1936
> -Ike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eighty Inch <eightyinch@xxx.xxx.xx>
> To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> Sent: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:36:20 +1100
> Subject: Re: SER1 Land Rover family tree update
>
>   Jeremy
>
> Just to add some debate the issue.
>
> I don't know that Land Rover ever called them "pick ups" and after all
> the
> seminal vehicle of that type anywhere in the world was the 1936 Ford
> Australia "Utility" and in Australia Land Rovers of that type are  
> always
> called "Utes".
>
> So to acknowledge some history I and most other Aussies would be happy
> with
> the term 107" and 109" Utes.  (Even the 86" and 88" are called Utes  
> when
> fitted with a truck cab)
>
> Cheers  :-)))
> Diana
>
> P.S. Real men drive a ute!
>
>
>
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Wayne Perrin
wperrin@xxxxxxx.xxx



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