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The first production Land-Rover, JUE 477, has this week gone on show at the prestigious RAC Club on Pall Mall, London.
The last time this important historic Landie was on public display was 20 years ago, in 1998, when it made a brief appearance at the marque’s 50th-birthday celebrations at Shugborough Hall. Following that outing, chassis 860001 was hidden from view until the decision was taken in 2017 to find a new owner and guarantee its long-term future.
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Landie 'number 1' is making its first public appearance since 1998
JUE 477 was officially ‘dispatched’ in July 1948, before being signed over to a member of the Land-Rover development programme and remaining within the Solihull site.
It wasn’t registered for road use until 1950, when it was sold to a professor at Newcastle University; it changed hands just once more before being purchased by David Fairless and put into use on his Northumberland farm.
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The Series One looks incongruous within the grandeur of the RAC Club, Pall Mall