Canadian Trials of Land Rovers

[45jim]

We had 4 armoured land rovers in Visoko Bosnia. CO had one, 2i/c had one, the engineers had one and one spare. They were constantly breaking down and suffered from serious suspension failures due to the weight of the armour kit. Doctors without borders had lots and we were stealing parts off their junkers which they left in our compound.

The general impression of land rovers is pretty poor in many users eyes, they just don't have a good reputation. They aren't a bad vehicle and no more problematic or capable than a jeep of similar vintage, the real problem comes in the overloading. Land rovers were used for everything and the extra kit just added to the reliability problems.