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[Mike Street]

Does anybody know any history of this Landie pls ?
also how near the end of S2A production it is ?

Thanks

[Formerlyjeremy]

Its obviously close to the end.  Does it have the Suffix H all-synchro gearbox that's different from all the others?

Have you got a Heritage Cert for it?  They don't show much but might give you a production date.

https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/archive/heritage-certificates

I have heard that the changeover from S2a to S3 is indistinct - with S2a's arriving after S3's - sounds very strange from a production point of view to have extra sets of components floating around the factory but it may mean that loads of late 2a's were stored in fields until someone wanted them.

[Ndrwdz]

As a boy I can remember seeing hundreds of 'new' BL cars stored on Oakley Airfield
Google maps

It was subsequently used in the filming of Octopussy

[Wittsend]

Its obviously close to the end.  Does it have the Suffix H all-synchro gearbox that's different from all the others?

It would be very rare indeed, As I understand it the 2A all synchro box only went into export Station Wagons. No doubt some found their way into the home market. This 2A box is totally different to the Series 3 box and not to be confused with it. The 2A synchro box used the 2A actuation system, but I've never seen such a box nor know how it might be numbered!

Officially Series 3s production started on 1st September 1971.
The Land Rover sales dept. would have been pushing this new version of the Land Rover with all it's "car like" improvements. Old stock left in the dealers would have been sold at a discounted price.
I'm not sure that there were loads of Series 2As languishing in fields unsold.
What you may have seen were vehicles made and sold under existing contracts and agreements awaiting dispatch, not just to the MoD but for fleet buyers.
It is true that "specialist" Series 2As were made and dispatched well into the Series 3 production.

 

[Craig T]

I'd be interested in more info on the IIA all synchro boxes if anyone knows anything or even seen one?

I have a 1967 export 109" station wagon and it has a fully synchro box. It has a factory rebuilt label on it too so don't think it is original to the vehicle and I can't tell if it has a gearbox number without taking the floor out.
Is there an external way to tell what box it is? It still has the correct (I think) transfer box on it and bellhousing with the external push rod slave cylinder so not a complete series 3 gearbox. I heard gear ratios between the IIA and III gearboxes were different too, maybe I need to take it apart and count gear teeth?

Craig.