Rob Dekker van het LRCH forum weet me het volgende te vertellen betreft het motorblok in mijn Series III:
Tevens kwam iemand nog de volgende link tegen met
nog meer Sherpa/Freightrover info.
Heel kort is Land Rover samengevoegd geweest met de Light Commercal tak van Leyland. De Leyland Sherpa (een soort kat met 7 levens) kreeg toen de naam Freight Rover. De zojuist in de 90 en 110 gëintroduceerde (1984) 2.5 n/a D kreeg, samen met de LT77 5 bak, een plaatsje vooronder. In 1987 nam DAF Leyland trucks over en werd de Freight Rover tot Leyland/DAF herdoopt.
De eerste serie DAF 400 modellen, welke vanaf 1989 ook in Nederland goed verkocht werden, hadden nog steeds de Land Rover 2.5 n/a D onde de kap.
Vele garantie claims (vastgelopen krukas), deed DAF in 1990 besluiten, om de Land Rover diesel te vervangen door een Indenor (Peugeot). In het begin nog gewoon tegen de LT77. Later kreeg de DAF ook de bak van Peugeot.
De Freight Rover 2.5 D is herkenbaar aan het inlaad spruitstuk, waar de luchtfilter bovenop staat ipv naar voren aansluit. Dit voor de inbouw tussen de vorstoelen. Ook de DPS inspuitpomp heeft een andere afstelling.
Met Land Rover Serie III onderdelen, is er zelfs een 4 x 4 versie (zie hierboven) en een versie met de 3,5 liter V8 gebouwd.
De laatste nazaat van de Freight Rover is nog tot 2006 als LDV Convoy in productie geweest.
- Rob
And in EnglishHistory Freight RoverThe company was created as a division of the Land Rover Group of British Leyland (BL) in 1981, creating a new single brand for British Leyland's panel van business.
Under later company organisation changes Freight Rover became part of the Leyland Trucks division of BL.
In 1987 the Leyland Trucks division of, what was by then, the Rover Group (following the renaming of BL in 1986), merged with the Dutch truck company DAF Trucks, to form the new independent DAF NV company which soon after was floated on the Dutch stock market. The British arm of the new company traded as Leyland DAF, with two main sites in the UK: the truck plant in Leyland and the vans plant in Birmingham.
The company was formed in 1987 when the Leyland Trucks division, including the Freight Rover van making interests, of the British Rover Group merged with the Dutch DAF Trucks company. The new company, DAF NV, was jointly owned by DAF Beheer BV (60%) and Rover Group (40%). Later the company was floated on the Dutch stock exchange.[1] The new company traded as Leyland DAF in the UK, and as DAF elsewhere.
The company manufactured trucks at its plants in Leyland, UK and Eindhoven, Netherlands, and vans at its Birmingham, UK plant.
Following the insolvency of DAF NV in 1993 three new companies emerged as management buyouts: LDV Limited as a van manufacturer based in Birmingham, UK, Leyland Trucks as a truck manufacturer based in Leyland, UK and DAF Trucks as a truck manufacturer based in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
The LDV Convoy is a panel van that was manufactured by LDV Limited between 1997 and 2006.
The Convoy was a development of the Leyland DAF 400 Series, which in turn was based on the Freight Rover 300 Series. The Convoy and its predecessors were the larger versions of the LDV Pilot (and its predecessors), all of which were based on the Leyland Sherpa series of vans that was first developed in 1974, sharing some components with even earlier models.
