These days it’s just a sketch and that’s it but back then there was nobody else to work out your ideas. Everything went through to production very efficiently and quickly they didn’t mess about. As soon as they decided, yes that’s the one they did it. I Still like to take a job from A to Z, from sketch to engineering drawings, they not A to B designer. There’s nothing nicer than seeing your idea making it through design and production, and seeing it finished.
Apart from the One Ten’s new face, the other distinctive changes to the Land Rover’s external appearance are the rubber eyebrows. Roger Crathrone, an influential Land Rover engineer who’s now the company’s technical communications manager, take ups the story.
If you look at a Series I then a Series II, you’ll see that the Series II is four inches wider. Stage 2 the One Ten is for inches wider still a full eight inches wider than a Series I. this came about because they used Range Rover axles. Without eyebrows, the wheels would have thrown up mud and muck all over the body sides.
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