Manchester Guardian Weekly,
week ending August 8, 1993,
Vol 149, No. 6
The venerable Land-Rover reached a milestone last week when the 1.5
millionth rolled off a Solihull production line, 45 years after the
vehicle was introduced.
The Land-Rover made its debut at the 1948 Amsterdam motor show and
has since sold in nearly every country of the world as a workhorse
for farmers, foresters, police and armed forces.
The Land-Rover, renamed the Defender in 1990, is now available in
three model types, hard or soft top, petrol or diesel engined, with
a choice of three lengths of wheelbase.
Sales of Defender, Discovery and Range Rover vehicles increased by
26 percent in the first six months of the year and Rover is set to
recruit a further 300 staff.
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dixon kenner, dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca
FourFold Symmetry, Nepean, Ontario, Canada
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