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The Land Master is a civilian all-terrain utility vehicle produced in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a competitor to the Land Rover. It incorporated design features that were not then available on the contemporary Series 3 and were only introduced some years later on the Land Rover Defender. It was tested by the British Army and was actually used by the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary. Money was promised by the Ministry of Defence but the deal fell through. Eventually, the rights to the Land Master were sold to a company called C.K. Farnworth of Crumlin, Caerphilly, Wales. The prototype vehicles were made at Trelavour Road Garage, St Dennis, Cornwall, and were based on Dodge pickup truck parts. The chassis was made of tubular steel so that when it went over bumps and steep angles, dirt on top of the chassis rails would fall off, unlike Land Rovers of the time. Surviving vehicles are very rare, at least one Land Master is still on the road in use in Kent, England, and another is kept by the original builders at St. Dennis. A very tatty survivor was spotted near Hexham in the early 1990s. Engines available included a 3.8 L Perkins diesel I4 rated at , a 4.0 L Perkins diesel V6 rated at , or a 5.9 L Chrysler petrol V8 rated at . A successor business to those originals mentioned above introduced a version of the vehicle that they called Powr4. This seems to have been a very short lived iteration. == See also == * List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Land Master」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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