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Ooh, that green 110 looks familiar, oh thats it, its the one on muy driveway!

Good luck with the work, keep us updated!

60 mpg! I never knew they did that well!

Aar0sc wrote:SSE use Defenders round here; modified with bulgy bonnets; winches and shizzle

Yeah, I used to drive their TD5s for them.

Is that Southern Electricity logo 'in period' ? Looks like a fairly recent one to me. Yes, that signwriting was introduced in 1966 and not superseded until 1989! It looks like such a modern logo! I used to work for SEEBoard,and even in the late eighties/early nineties we had HA Viva vans with a ver...

Landy Mann wrote:I've said it before about your landys, but all say it again! A very nice little collection there.

Cheers!

Thats a very, very dead bulkhead. The one on my 66 IIA is better. Its shocking how bad they can get on Defenders of this age. Good luck with the rebuild.

We also have this one, also ex-southern electric. It was a managers vehicle built in 1966. Unusually for a van it had a fully trimmed cab, as some of it can still be seen inside. Chassis extremities are poor, but the main rails are sounds, bulkhead needs footwells and door pillars. The body is not t...

Mrotwoman wrote:Is that Southern Electricity logo 'in period' ? Looks like a fairly recent one to me.

Yes, that signwriting was introduced in 1966 and not superseded until 1989!

Well this is mine, In chronological order... If you dont know yet, its a 109" IIA 1-Ton, chassis number 13, and the oldest known one ton. I rescued it from a farm in early 2005 .It began its life with Southern Electricity Board in Portsmouth in early summer 1969 and I am restoring it to its "in serv...