National Rove 2024 Display Day at Oberon, New South Wales, 2/11/2024. CF Photo
1999 Range Rover SE P38A Oberon 2-11-2024 by http://roverownersclub.com.au/
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National Rove 2024 Display Day at Oberon, New South Wales, 2/11/2024. CF Photo
Reserve Collection
P38A Royal Ceremonial State I
ST-GS-12
An exhibit at the British Motor Museum.
This is the fourth State I review vehicle provided by Land Rover. It was used by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip for royal duties at home and abroad.
Car: Land Rover Range Rover P38A Royal Review State I.
Engine: 4600cc V8.
Year of manufacture: 1996.
Date taken: 16th April 2024.
Album: British Motor Museum April 2024
An exhibit at the British Motor Museum.
This is the fourth State I review vehicle provided by Land Rover. It was used by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip for royal duties at home and abroad.
Car: Land Rover Range Rover P38A Royal Review State I.
Engine: 4600cc V8.
Year of manufacture: 1996.
Date taken: 16th April 2024.
Album: British Motor Museum April 2024
British Motor Museum at Gaydon.
www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/online-collections/details-p...
M269 CVC
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
This is a great example of the fine line that often exists between the survival or scrapping of an historically-important vehicle. M774 CVC is one of the six early P38A Range Rovers that were built in June 1994 as Police demonstrators, some two months before the model was revealed to the media.
The car was initially allocated to the Central Motorway Patrol Group in the West Midlands and was finished in an experimental ‘battenberg’ livery. Later it was one of two acquired by the Metropolitan Police Special Escort Group and kitted-out with the more familiar ‘jam sandwich’ side stripes. Its sister-vehicle with the Met, M751 CVC, has also survived and is renowned as one of the Police vehicles that escorted Princess Diana’s funeral cortége to Althorp.
M774 CVC was previously unknown to Julian Lamb at the CVC Register, having been registered with a private plate after its disposal by the Met.
And the fine line that led to the saving of this very early and significant P38A? A chance call to the Collection from a local dealer to ask if we had any interest in an ‘M’ registered Range Rover that had failed its MoT and was about to go to go for scrap. As soon as we heard it was M774 CVC a deal was swiftly agreed!
4,0 Litre
V8
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
This is a great example of the fine line that often exists between the survival or scrapping of an historically-important vehicle. M774 CVC is one of the six early P38A Range Rovers that were built in June 1994 as Police demonstrators, some two months before the model was revealed to the media.
The car was initially allocated to the Central Motorway Patrol Group in the West Midlands and was finished in an experimental ‘battenberg’ livery. Later it was one of two acquired by the Metropolitan Police Special Escort Group and kitted-out with the more familiar ‘jam sandwich’ side stripes. Its sister-vehicle with the Met, M751 CVC, has also survived and is renowned as one of the Police vehicles that escorted Princess Diana’s funeral cortége to Althorp.
M774 CVC was previously unknown to Julian Lamb at the CVC Register, having been registered with a private plate after its disposal by the Met.
And the fine line that led to the saving of this very early and significant P38A? A chance call to the Collection from a local dealer to ask if we had any interest in an ‘M’ registered Range Rover that had failed its MoT and was about to go to go for scrap. As soon as we heard it was M774 CVC a deal was swiftly agreed!
4,0 Litre
V8
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
This is a First Phase Methods Build prototype dating from early 1994. There are few differences between this vehicle and the production standard early cars. The clue is the ‘CVC’ number plate.
The CVC Register was aware of the existence of this car and told us that a buyer was being sought by the owner. We moved quickly to secure it and collected it from North Devon.
The lights and wheels had been upgraded to later P38A specification so these have been changed back to standard, and as usual a new headlining was required.
The P38A was for a long time the ‘unloved’ Range Rover but is now being positively re-evaluated by enthusiasts and the very early press launch ‘CVC’ cars are being actively traced and saved by the members of the CVC Register.
4,6 Litre
V8
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
This is a great example of how an important vehicle can get ‘lost’, because at some point after it was sold by Land Rover many of its ten owners fitted personalised number plates. Once the distinctive CVC plate had been replaced, which is synonymous with the press launch, the vehicle became just another anonymous early P38a.
M241 CVC is a Vogue SE and one of the 18 Press Fleet vehicles that were used on the global launch known as ‘The Epic’. This was the biggest and most sophisticated vehicle launch event ever staged by the company up to that point, and involved six groups of three vehicles each, crewed by a combination of senior company employees and celebrities, that went to Vermont, Patagonia, Botswana, Madrid, Japan, and the Cotswolds. Live satellite broadcasts from all six locations were beamed into dealerships at regular intervals during what the company called ‘ten days that shook the world’. Only two of these 18 vehicles are known to survive, and both are in the Collection. 241 was in Vermont.
M241 CVC enjoyed main dealer servicing until 2003 and the original service record and handbook are still present. We purchased it from a trader who ran it for the shooting season before moving it on to us in 2017. The vehicle has been used well and shows signs of lengthy farming or shooting ownership. Incredibly it still retains its original engine 42D00073A.
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
This is a great example of how an important vehicle can get ‘lost’, because at some point after it was sold by Land Rover many of its ten owners fitted personalised number plates. Once the distinctive CVC plate had been replaced, which is synonymous with the press launch, the vehicle became just another anonymous early P38a.
M241 CVC is a Vogue SE and one of the 18 Press Fleet vehicles that were used on the global launch known as ‘The Epic’. This was the biggest and most sophisticated vehicle launch event ever staged by the company up to that point, and involved six groups of three vehicles each, crewed by a combination of senior company employees and celebrities, that went to Vermont, Patagonia, Botswana, Madrid, Japan, and the Cotswolds. Live satellite broadcasts from all six locations were beamed into dealerships at regular intervals during what the company called ‘ten days that shook the world’. Only two of these 18 vehicles are known to survive, and both are in the Collection. 241 was in Vermont.
M241 CVC enjoyed main dealer servicing until 2003 and the original service record and handbook are still present. We purchased it from a trader who ran it for the shooting season before moving it on to us in 2017. The vehicle has been used well and shows signs of lengthy farming or shooting ownership. Incredibly it still retains its original engine 42D00073A.
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
This second-generation P38A Range Rover has been modified to incorporate a fuel tank test chamber, allowing a test tank to be installed in the chamber to allow evaluation of low fuel handling and spillage (in the latter test, the test tank is filled with fuel substitute and nitrogen gas is flowed into the tank to simulate the high levels of fuel vapour that may be found in hot climates, allowing an assessment to be conducted to evaluate fuel spillage). The vehicle also operated as a Mobile Fuel Laboratory to allow testing and development of fuel tanks for new models prior to the availability of prototype vehicles.
Lessons learned from such tests were then incorporated into the final design, shortening the development time, reducing the time needed for testing with expensive prototype vehicles and ensuring the design was robust before committing to tooling. The MFL was found to give more representative results than either five axis simulator rigs using road load data or CAE predictions.
The Mobile Fuel Laboratory was used from 2001 until early 2013 to conduct early development testing of every new land Rover vehicle. A replacement MFL was recently constructed on an L322 platform allowing the P38A to join the Dunsfold Collection for a well-earned rest.
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
This second-generation P38A Range Rover has been modified to incorporate a fuel tank test chamber, allowing a test tank to be installed in the chamber to allow evaluation of low fuel handling and spillage (in the latter test, the test tank is filled with fuel substitute and nitrogen gas is flowed into the tank to simulate the high levels of fuel vapour that may be found in hot climates, allowing an assessment to be conducted to evaluate fuel spillage). The vehicle also operated as a Mobile Fuel Laboratory to allow testing and development of fuel tanks for new models prior to the availability of prototype vehicles.
Lessons learned from such tests were then incorporated into the final design, shortening the development time, reducing the time needed for testing with expensive prototype vehicles and ensuring the design was robust before committing to tooling. The MFL was found to give more representative results than either five axis simulator rigs using road load data or CAE predictions.
The Mobile Fuel Laboratory was used from 2001 until early 2013 to conduct early development testing of every new land Rover vehicle. A replacement MFL was recently constructed on an L322 platform allowing the P38A to join the Dunsfold Collection for a well-earned rest.
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
This second-generation P38A Range Rover has been modified to incorporate a fuel tank test chamber, allowing a test tank to be installed in the chamber to allow evaluation of low fuel handling and spillage (in the latter test, the test tank is filled with fuel substitute and nitrogen gas is flowed into the tank to simulate the high levels of fuel vapour that may be found in hot climates, allowing an assessment to be conducted to evaluate fuel spillage). The vehicle also operated as a Mobile Fuel Laboratory to allow testing and development of fuel tanks for new models prior to the availability of prototype vehicles.
Lessons learned from such tests were then incorporated into the final design, shortening the development time, reducing the time needed for testing with expensive prototype vehicles and ensuring the design was robust before committing to tooling. The MFL was found to give more representative results than either five axis simulator rigs using road load data or CAE predictions.
The Mobile Fuel Laboratory was used from 2001 until early 2013 to conduct early development testing of every new land Rover vehicle. A replacement MFL was recently constructed on an L322 platform allowing the P38A to join the Dunsfold Collection for a well-earned rest.
The Dunsfold Collection
Alfold - Surrey
England - United Kingdom
June 2015
Spotted out and about.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_Rover#Second_generation_(1994)
Spotted out and about.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_Rover#Second_generation_(1994)
