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[[image:LandMaster4x4.png|thumb|right|Land Master 4×4]]▼
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The '''Land Master''' is the name of a civilian all-terrain utility vehicle produced in the late 1970s and early 1980's as a contender to the [[Land Rover]]. Many of its features were incorporated into the [[Land Rover (Series/Defender)|Land Rover Defender]] introduced some years later.▼
▲The '''Land Master''' is
It is now a very rare vehicle. 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 (United Kingdom)|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, Wales|Crumlin]], [[South Wales]].▼
[[File:DCP LandMaster.jpg|thumb|The Land Master, registration OTA114W, operated by Devon & Cornwall Police, registered in April 1981.]]
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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. ▼
▲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. All body panels were made of aluminium.
Surviving vehicles are very rare, one Land Master (possibly the only one actually sold to a customer) is rumoured still to be on the road in [[Kent]], [[England]],(this vehicle which was the third one built, is still in existence although not on the road) and another is kept by the original builders at St. Dennis. A very tatty survivor was spotted near Hexham in Northumberland in the early 1990s and two images of survivors can be found on the web - though it is currently unclear which company made them or at what date.
[[File:Land Master survivor..jpg|thumb|Land Master survivor. This vehicle is the ex-Devon and Cornwall Police car pictured above.]]
Engines available included a 3.8 L [[Perkins Engines|Perkins]] [[diesel]] [[Straight-4|I4]] rated at 82 bhp, a 4.0 L Perkins [[diesel]] [[V6]] rated at 101 bhp, or a 5.9 L [[Chrysler]] [[petrol]] V8 rated at 170 bhp.▼
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▲Engines available included a 3.8
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.
==References==
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* {{cite magazine |url=https://www.difflock.com/diffmag/issue8/landmaster.shtml |date=|title=Land Master 4×4 |magazine=DiffLock |volume=1 |issue=8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509041958/https://www.difflock.com/diffmag/issue8/landmaster.shtml|archive-date=9 May 2006}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.difflock.com/diffmag/issue10/landmaster2.shtml |title=Land Master 4×4 (part 2) |publisher=DiffLock (Volume 1, Issue 10) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509043009/http://www.difflock.com/diffmag/issue10/landmaster2.shtml |archive-date=9 May 2006 }}
* {{cite web |url=https://landrover.vlothuizen.nl/show/list/8001-1.html |title=Land Master 4×4 (sales brochure) |year=1977 |publisher=C.K. Farnworth |access-date=2024-06-21}} {{in lang|en|nl}}
* {{cite web |title=6-page colour POWR4 sales brochure |url=https://archive.org/details/powr-4-brochure}}
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