Ever since the birth of the Land Rover in 1947, it had earned a very special place in the affection of Falkland Islanders not least because there were no proper roads on the islands and no other vehicle was capable of getting from A to B across the treacherous terrain, which consisted of rocky crags and deep peat dogs, with little else between.
The British forces knew that Land Rovers would be invaluable in the conflict ahead, so hurriedly placed an order at Solihull. Who at the time was Land Rover’s military product planning manager, recalls We got in an order for more than 600 emergency Series III vehicles. They were made to a reduced spec called CL, which stood for commercial.
The problem was that most of them went aboard the merchant ship Atlantic Conveyor, which was struck by an Argentine Exocet missile and they all ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic.
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