AA Road Service Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top PYU 15 in the association's yellow with a black roof and black front wing sides, AA badges on the wings and hard-top sides and ROAD SERVICE lettering — one of the radio patrol Land Rovers the AA spread from London to Birmingham and Leeds in the 1950s.
BASE VEHICLESeries I 88″BUILT BYRover Company (Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top)IN SERVICE1954–58OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONunknownLAYOUT4 wheels · 88″
The record
After the success of its first Land Rover with the London Night Patrols in 1949, the Automobile Association extended radio-equipped Land Rover patrols to Birmingham in 1951 and Leeds in 1952, and through the decade the yellow Land Rovers became the face of the AA's Road Service. The 88-inch hard tops carried a two-way radio, tools, fuel and a spare on the bonnet, and wore the yellow-and-black scheme with the AA badge on each front wing and on the hard-top sides above ROAD SERVICE.
PYU 15 is documented by Oxford Diecast's 1:43 (LAN188019) and 1:76 (76LAN188019) models of the vehicle, which are the references here: yellow body and hard-top sides, black roof and black-painted front wing sides, bonnet spare, AA badges on both wing fronts and both hard-top sides, ROAD SERVICE on the hard-top sides, PYU 15 on the front bumper and black steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle in the Breakdown group; the size of the AA's Series I fleet is not given in the sources.
Specification
MANUFACTURERRover Company (Land Rover Series I 88-inch hard top)
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERThe Automobile Association (radio patrol fit and livery)
MANUFACTUREDSeries I 86/88-inch hard top, mid-1950s; PYU registration
ENGINERover 2.0 L inlet-over-exhaust petrol
PRODUCTION RUNunknown (part of the AA's 1950s Road Service fleet)
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSunknown
REGISTRATIONPYU 15
FITTINGSTwo-way radio, bonnet spare, hard top
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESeries I
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE88″
CATEGORYSpecial · Breakdown
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Renders & references
Front three-quarterRegistry renderThree-quarterRegistry renderSideRegistry renderRearRegistry renderFrontRegistry renderOxford Diecast 1:43 model of PYU 15 — a reference for this model; linked only.Oxford Diecast ↗Oxford Diecast 1:76 model of PYU 15; linked only.Oxford Diecast ↗
Where it was
GB United Kingdom1955–1968 · AA Road Service radio patrols
BuiltLand Rover, Lode Lane, SolihullUnited Kingdom · 1954–195852.43, -1.78