Advertising Last completed movie pages 1990 Land-Rover Defender 110 Station Wagon Ep. 2.07Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin: 
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◊ 2007-05-06 14:32 |
Nepal (close to Indian border) Could it be a Tempo-Land-Rover? |
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◊ 2007-05-06 15:49 |
No, it is a normal Land Rover One Ten or Defender 110, probably the latter. Tempo-Land-Rover were special bodied LRs made by Vidal & Sohn, brand name Tempo, in Hamburg in the 1950s. Here is a real one: /vehicle_63173-Tempo-Land-Rover-80---Series-I-1953.html |
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◊ 2007-05-06 19:57 |
So Tempo-Land-Rover is not related to the Indian Tempo? |
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◊ 2007-05-06 21:47 |
Only around some corners... .gif ":)") Vidal & Sohn produced vans under the brand name Tempo. Quite famous were their three-wheelers of which the last model was named 'Hanseat'. /vehicle_41873-Tempo-Hanseat-50-1950.html When the production in Germany stopped all the tooling went to India and the 'Hanseat' was kept in production under the brand name Bajaj-Tempo from 1962-2000. /vehicle_54246-Bajaj-Tempo-Hanseat-1962.html Back in Germany Tempo changed hands a couple of times, first bought by Hanomag, they went together with Henschel forming Hanomag-Henschel and were later bought by Mercedes-Benz. The first Mercedes-Benz van was actually a Tempo design. /vehicle_80562-Tempo-Matador-E-1963.html /vehicle_38984-Mercedes-Benz-306-D-L70.html The good links to India were kept and Bajaj-Tempo, later renamed Force Motors, produced other small trucks from the Mercedes-Benz range, too: /vehicle_63810-Bajaj-Tempo-Matador-F307.html /vehicle_54241-Tempo-Traveller.html http://www.forcemotors.com/index.aspx Now back to the Land-Rover connection: In the early 1950s the cold war was heating up and the German Border Patrol (Bundesgrenzschutz/BGS), at that time a paramilitary troop as Germany had no army until 1956, were in need for new 4x4 vehicles. Land-Rover was chosen. The BGS wanted a special Kübelwagen body, but Land-Rover's production capacity was already stretched, so they supplied CKD kits and Tempo produced 250 vehicles on the 80" and 86" chassis. Those got the brand name Tempo-Land-Rover. ![[Image: image002bk0.jpg]](http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4525/image002bk0.jpg "http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4525/image002bk0.jpg") |
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◊ 2007-05-06 22:26 |
Thanks for the information Alexander! Nice to see you use some of my pictures as example... .gif ";)") |
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