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Dixon-Bate Land-Rover semi-trailer conversion and cross-country trailers

Dixon-Bate · United Kingdom · 1950–1969

Chester towing-equipment maker Dixon-Bate, whose ball and jaw hitches went on generations of Land Rovers, also offered in the 1950s-60s a fifth-wheel semi-trailer conversion for the Land Rover, two-wheeled cross-country truck and tool-cart trailers for up to 2 tons and two- or four-wheeled tanker trailers up to 1,000 gallons.

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1950–1969MADE—PERIOD PRICEVery rareRARITY8LAND ROVER MODELS4SOURCES

Description

Chester towing-equipment maker Dixon-Bate, whose ball and jaw hitches went on generations of Land Rovers, also offered in the 1950s-60s a fifth-wheel semi-trailer conversion for the Land Rover, two-wheeled cross-country truck and tool-cart trailers for up to 2 tons and two- or four-wheeled tanker trailers up to 1,000 gallons.

Semi-trailer conversion required a fifth-wheel coupling on the Land Rover.

Rarity. Listed in Dixon-Bate's 1959 product range and the 1969 Commercial Motor buyers' guide, but the firm is remembered for its Land Rover tow hitches rather than its trailers; no surviving Land Rover semi-trailer conversion has been traced.

Record: 4 sources; designation recorded; no price recorded.

Specification

MAKERB. Dixon-Bate Ltd, Bridge Works, Chester, United Kingdom
DESIGNATION / PARTSemi-trailer conversion for Land Rover; two-wheeled cross-country truck and tool cart trailers (up to 2 tons); tanker trailers (up to 1,000 gal)
MADE1950–1969
RARITYVery rare — Listed in Dixon-Bate's 1959 product range and the 1969 Commercial Motor buyers' guide, but the firm is remembered for its Land Rover tow hitches rather than its trailers; no surviving Land Rover semi-trailer conversion has been traced.
1959 RANGEfour-wheeled trailers to 6 tons; close-coupled low-loaders to 4 tons; two- or four-wheeled tanker trailers to 1,000 gal; two-wheeled cross-country truck and tool cart trailers to 2 tons; semi-trailer conversion for Land Rover
1969 RANGEsemi and drawbar trailers to 6 tons payload; ground-level-loading lightweight machinery carrier with stacked spring-washer suspension
COMPANYformed 1921 by Basil Dixon-Bate; D-B light trailer range from 1931; towing equipment from 1950

Fitment

Semi-trailer conversion required a fifth-wheel coupling on the Land Rover.

Sources

gracesguide.co.uk/B._Dixon-Batearchive.commercialmotor.com/article/12th-september-1969/119/trailernationalmotormuseum.org.uk/collections/vehicles/dixon-bate-trailer/dixonbate.co.uk/about.aspEvery source above was fetched and read when the record was made.