The sole surviving Land Rover Series I Station Wagon "86 that completed the famous London-Singapore expedition in 1956 is to go on show at the forthcoming Land Rover Legends show.
Two teams of students, one from Oxford and one from Cambridge, took part in the gruelling cross-continent Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, with the trip garnering massive amounts of publicity both at home and abroad.
One of the two Land Rovers – 'Cambridge' – was subsequently lost on a later expedition to the Middle East, but 'Oxford' survives and indeed, as these pictures show, was out and about in the UK's recent snow.
The 1955-56 expedition reached a huge audience as a result of three BBC films commissioned by Sir David Attenborough.
The journey was subsequently immortalised in the highly acclaimed (and still onsale) 1957 book First Overland by expedition member Tim Slessor, which only increased the attention around the two vehicles.
Other than crossing the English Channel, the Bosphorus, and the odd river, the two teams made the journey to Singapore entirely overland – the first time it had been done.
