Rover Light Armoured Car

[maple_leaf_eh]

Looks good! When you get closer to fabricating larger missing pieces, bear in mind the workshop conditions when these 40 hulls were manufactured. Was there a fully dedicated clean-sheet production line, or were these welded up on jigs on an open stretch of the factory floor? Were the workers the most highly skilled men in the entire factory, or were they the next shift available? Are there signs of careful, precise and repeatable measurements and precision controlled cutters, or more scribe a line and grind down to it?

I mention this degree of imprecision thinking about a story from when DEW Industries in Canada graciously restored a WW1 US light tank which ended its service life in the nascent Canadian Armoured Corps. Don Dingwall was at DEW and he had to laughingly explain to the modern shop workers just how primitive the shops were in 1918-19. Of course nothing would be square or perfect. The workmen were used to making locomotives, which only had a few truly standardized parts.

[Wayne Henderson]

Finished the upper sections today. Looks much better but still the ugliest truck ever. I will tackle the hatches and fittings when time allows.

[Brian Gough]

Wayne, it looks to me like the Rover inspired Elon Musk in the design of Tesla's new Cybertruck.

Brian

[jack neville]

Originally Posted by Brian Gough

Wayne, it looks to me like the Rover inspired Elon Musk in the design of Tesla's new Cybertruck.

Brian

I would suggest Tesla’s Cybertruck is an insult to the Rover.

[Mike Cecil]

The original MRAP??

Great job, Wayne: very unusual vehicle and, as it's a LWB Mk.1, must be close to the only survivor - certainly the only one under restoration?

When does Mr Sandblaster arrive to change the patina?

Mike

[Wayne Henderson]

Hi Mike,
I will finish off the hatches next and then the plates at the bottom that rusted away during its time in the salt lakes at Nungarrin. Plan is to do a bit here and there as the paying jobs keep getting priority.