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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford - early forerunner of the Range Rover

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Created on February 18, 2016

Reading time 4min

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Bruno von Rotz

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - sieht ungewöhnlich aus

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - oben breiter als die Serienversion

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - für den anspruchsvollen Geländefahrer

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Schiebefenster hinten

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - mit aufwändigem Aufbau

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Cockpit mit Nutzcharakter

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - minimalistische Armaturen

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - kombiniertes Zündschluss und Lichtschalter

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - verschliessbare Türen

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Fensterkurbel

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Siebensitzer

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Zugang zum Passagierraum

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Motor wie bei den anderen Land-Rovern

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Motorhaube und Vorderbau stimmen mit den normalen Autos überein

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Zulassung

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - die Scheibenwischer, gedacht für die kleinere geteilte Scheibe der Normalversion, bestreichen nur einen kleinen Teil der Windschutzscheibe

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Türgriff

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - klassisches Karosseriehandwerk

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1950) - Typenschild

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Land Rover Series I (1948) - Vorproduktions-Exemplar im Test

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Land Rover Series I (1948) - Vorproduktion

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Land Rover (1952) - Produktion in Solihull

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Land Rover (1952) - der fünfzigtausendste produziert

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Land Rover (1953) - viele Geländewagen, keinen Station Wagon Tickford, dafür einen Turbinen-Rover

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Land Rover (1954) - nach sechs Jahren waren schon 100'000 Wagen und Fahrgestelle produziert

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1949) - hier in Zweifarben-Lackierung

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Land Rover Station Wagon Tickford (1949) - ungewohnter Anblick auch wegen der durchgehenden Frontscheibe

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Land-Rover Station Wagon (1954) - nicht mehr von Tickford und deutlich näher an der normalen Ausführung

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Summary

One of the rarest Land Rover variants is the Tickford Station Wagon, built between 1948 and 1951, a kind of forerunner of the later luxury off-road vehicles. An elaborate design, correspondingly high labor costs and high purchase taxes made the off-road station wagon almost unaffordable. One of the approximately 650 examples built is presented in this article with many pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

All-terrain universal vehicle
The noble version
No commercial success
Not the first luxury off-road vehicle
One of the few survivors
Further information

Estimated reading time: 4min

Preview (beginning of the article)

At the Amsterdam Motor Show on April 30, 1948, the Land Rover was presented, a utility vehicle aimed primarily at farmers, hunters and other professionals who occasionally had to travel over rough terrain. A year later, the British off-road vehicle also appeared at the Geneva Motor Show. At the time, it was described by Automobil Revue as follows: "The category of light, all-terrain universal vehicles, which have found great favor particularly in agriculture and industry, has been remarkably enriched in the Land Rover. The vehicle exhibited for the first time in Geneva has a strong and torsion-resistant box frame with rigid axles and semi-elliptical springs and telescopic shock absorbers. Power is transmitted to the front and rear wheels via a large single-disc clutch and a synchronized four-speed gearbox .

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