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CM test recalled after 34 years

21st May 1983, Page 34
21st May 1983
Page 34
Page 34, 21st May 1983 — CM test recalled after 34 years
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A LAND-ROVER that had been lying in a Staffordshire field for some time and had served a Walsall garage as a recovery vehicle for at least 20 years has been bought by Jamie Fairchild, of Rudgeway, near Bristol. He hopes to restore it to the condition in which it was handed over to Bill Cotton, a famous technical editor of Commercial Motor, for a three-day test on the road, on an army proving round and on a Cornish farm 34 years ago.

Painstaking detection revealed that the Land-Rover HNX 206 — was the subject of a centrepages test report in the July 1, 1949, issue of this journal. This was the annual agricultural transport number published to coincide with the Royal Show and included an art-paper supplement.

In three days the vehicle covered 600 miles on road and cross-country course and spent 12 hours on the land with plough, harrows, Cambridge roll and cultivator. Bill reported that it climbed like a cat and pulled like an ox.

Like him, I remember the test vividly, for it broke new ground and was made at my instigation. I also designed the four complicated page layouts with some of the best pictures that Commercial Motor has ever published.

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