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Historic Land Rover Defender

7/30/2012

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“Mon Mam Cymru” – “Mon the Mother of Wales”, is how Anglesey is described in Welsh.

Its better known 20th century offspring however is the Land Rover.

When Rover Managing Director Spencer Wilks visited Chief Engineer brother Maurice at their estate there in 1947, he asked what he would do when the ex-Army Jeep he had wore out.  “Try to find another one” he said, “there’s just nothing like it …"


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