Land Rover made a Tractor... here it is

I'm putting this in the series forum as you guys will appreciate it because of the age...
apologies in advance for the watermarking on the video, this footage has to be protected, for other reasons.

This is some ultra rare footage of a Land Rover Tractor, this was a prototype which was being driven by a guy from R&D from the Rover works. the reason I know this is that it was my dad who owns this footage and was filming it on the day, and this is his film. We recently transcribed another few hours of footage from his old Land Rover cine films from that era

I'm told, often the R&D guys would show up with various prototypes at the very early events such as these, in this case it was some sort of Land Rover Tractor, which ended up being recovered by a Culbertson after it failed in the lake

I've never seen any other footage or any photographs of this Land Rover Prototype Tractor, this could be the only record that exists of it outside of the R&D at the Rover works, or simply the only film of it.

Land Rover made a tractor, here it is...
Enjoy.

Lix Toll Garage at Killin in Perthshire has a Cuthbertson on display. Weird conversion. The centre of gravity was very high. I wouldn't do extreme off roading in one. Never seen the other tractor like zombie thing before.

Hard to see much of said "tractor". Motor looks like a flat four petrol,not a tractor engine in the 60's [ probably why it stopped in the water]
Was it four wheel steer?
I too have never seen this before.

The electricity board had a couple I understand to get across rough terrain to pylons and power lines.

No4 on the list

Tractor looks like an aircooled flat four petol mated to a series transmission, but why?

rob1miles said:

Tractor looks like an aircooled flat four petol mated to a series transmission, but why?

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Could've been a mock up thrown together to test a steering or suspension concept rather than a complete vehicle prototype.

Is it wrong to get a semi watching that Cuthbertson?

Th Cuthbertson ran so swift and smooth! Worth watching just to see that in action.

Thanks for sharing, the tractor looks pretty weird!

Has this home made job been seen here before? http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/179016/land-rover-tug

There's also this one =>

http://www.dunsfoldcollection.co.uk/collection/series2/roadless-traction-forrest-rover-1964



With the current big rim bling trend it almost looks "right"...

Can we now claim to have invented the "Monster truck", I see the Yanks recently invented the sausage roll.

doobie said:

Thanks for sharing, the tractor looks pretty weird!

Has this home made job been seen here before? http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/179016/land-rover-tug

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Some people simply have too much time on their hands

I rather like it though