Land Rover celebrates Defender with recreation of 1948 production line

- All new Defender tour opens at Solihull plant to celebrate one of the world’s most iconic vehicles.

- Includes innovative new visitor attraction replicating an original 1948 production line.

- Over 20,000 visitors expected before UK production ends this year.

Land Rover has re-created history by building an authentic replica of the production line used to manufacture its first 4x4 in 1948. The ‘Defender Celebration Line’ re-creates in detail how the first Series I Land Rover was built at the Solihull manufacturing plant just after the Second World War.

The new visitor attraction, which opened to the public today, forms part of a new Defender tour and showcases replica models in various stages of production, each one meticulously built using identical parts and in precisely the same way as the original Series I.

The display gives an insight into life on a car production line in the late 1940’s using original tools and a draftsmen’s drawing board where visitors are also asked to wear authentic overalls known as ‘cow gowns.’ The attraction boasts an area dedicated to telling the story of the creation of the original Series I by Land Rover founder Maurice Wilks using previously unseen video footage provided by his family...

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