Land Rover 1.6-litre petrol engine

The Land Rover 1.6-litre petrol was the first engine fitted to the Land Rover, in the 1948 pre-production vehicles and the Series I until 1951. In the early years the Land Rover used modified versions of standard Rover car petrol engines, and this was an overhead valve, side-exhaust four-cylinder Rover car engine of 1,595 cc, with a bore and stroke of 69.5 by 105 mm, a Solex carburettor, a compression ratio of 6.8 to 1 and a net output of 50 bhp at 4,000 rpm. It drove the four-speed gearbox of the Rover P3 through a new two-speed transfer box. It was bored out to give the 1,997 cc 2.0-litre petrol from 1952, a unit that Rover also used in its Rover 60 car. Both of these older petrol engines were replaced by the dedicated 2.25-litre petrol engine of 1958, and a diesel option arrived in 1957.