In February 1968, a few months after the Rover Company was subsumed into the Leyland Motor Corporation under government pressure, the Land Rover marked twenty years since its launch with production close to 600,000, more than 70 percent of them exported. The One Ton 109-inch model, a rare derivative of the IIB forward-control truck, fitted instead with an ordinary 109-inch body and the 2.6-litre petrol engine, began production in late 1968, and from late 1968 or 1969 the headlamps started moving into the wings.
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and later by British Leyland
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In February 1968, just a few months after the Rover Company had been subsumed, under government pressure, into the Leyland Motor Corporation, the Land Rover celebrated its twentieth birthday, with total production to date just short of 600,000, of which more than 70% had been exported.
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produced by the Rover Company since 1948, and later by British Leyland
One Ton 109
The 1 Ton 109 inch was produced from late 1968 to 1977, covering late IIA and Series III Models.
One Ton 109, description
It was basically a Series-IIB forward control built with a standard 109 in body, featuring 2.6-litre petrol engine
Series III headlights
The headlights were moved to the wings on late production IIA models from 1968/9 onward
Body style, station-wagon: Series IIA, five-door station wagon
Body configurations available from the factory ranged from short-wheelbase soft-top to the top-of-the-line five-door station wagon.
Body style, pickup-truck: Series IIA, NADA trucks
811 of these were NADA (or North American Dollar Area) trucks, which were the only long-wheelbase models made for the American and Canadian markets.
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