Advertising 1952 Minerva Land-Rover 80'' Series I Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin: 
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◊ 2018-04-22 16:07 |
Minerva Lsnd-Rover: /vehicle_524458-Minerva-Land-Rover-80---Series-I-1952.html Stock footage from the Belgian Congo? |
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◊ 2018-04-22 16:14 |
Yes, could be |
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◊ 2018-04-22 16:59 |
Speaking of which, these weren't called "Minerva Land Rover" but "Minerva T-T". Here's a close-up shot I made of the grille badge. There's a "licence Rover", but no "Land Rover".![[Image: img_34242.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/310/img_34242.jpg) |
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◊ 2020-03-04 21:29 |
This is an 86", still Minerva Land Rover, and I've a book reference to Belgian Congo as receiving a lot of 86"s. The Minerva T-T was a bootleg version from June 56 after the L-R licencing expired (so its grille badge would not say Licence Rover; Minerva had already been using the T-T title for Tout-Terrain on licenced L-Rs since maybe 1954), with about 100 made as C22 (swb) and S22 (lwb), and was the last model to carry the Minerva name. |
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◊ 2021-09-07 22:38 |
No 86" Minervas were used in the Congo, This will be an 80" TT (Tout Terrain) |
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◊ 2021-09-07 22:43 |
Grill badge changed over the years, This one shows Land-Rover.![[Image: grillbadge.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/9346/grillbadge.jpg) -- Last edit: 2021-09-07 22:54:38 |
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◊ 2021-09-07 22:48 |
This is definitely an 80, The way the windscreens folded down onto bonnet was different. On the 80" the screen folded onto fixed iunverted U shaped brackets rivetted to the bonnet that held it about 3 inches off the bonnet. On an 86" there were opening vents under the winscreen and the windscreen rested on hinged struts, pivoted off the top of the windscreen, leaving it far higher above the bonnet... so high that there became room between the windscreen and the bonnet, to have a bonnet mounted spare wheel. The 80" had a grab rail, visible in the photo, that ran across the top back edge of the bulkhead. The 86" did not have the grab rail. The 86" windscreen had glass that ran to the bottom edge of the folding screen. The 80" had a steel infill panel (of about 4 inches depth) between the bottom edge of the glass and the lower edge of the frame. This steel infill panel shows clearly in the photograph. Without a doubt this is an 80". -- Last edit: 2021-09-07 23:07:31 |
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◊ 2021-09-08 01:16 |
OK - agreed. I had my doubts that an 80" should look shorter, but eventually found a pic of a stripped-back Minerva 80 in side view, and the proportions seem to match exactly. |
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