First Overland: Part 1, 1955 Land Rover Expedition London to Singapore

Land Rover Promotional Video of six Oxford & Cambridge university students on an expedition from London to Singapore, 1955-1956.
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A book documenting the entire journey:
First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover by Tim Slessor
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From Wikipedia:
Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition
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Team members:
All members were from either Oxford University or Cambridge University, and all had just finished their degrees when they set out on the expedition, with the exception of Nigel Newbery, who had one year left, and was the only Oxford student. The expedition members and their roles on the expedition were as follows:
Antony "B.B." Barrington Brown - Cameraman
Adrian Cowell - Business Manager
Patrick Murphy - Navigator and Chef
Nigel Newbery - Quartermaster and Mechanic
Henry Nott - Chief Engineer
Tim Slessor - Scribe and Assistant Cameraman
Route:
After setting off from Hyde Park in London, on 1 September 1955,[1][2] the expedition was flown over to the European continent and from there continued through France, Monaco, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Malaya and Singapore.
Arriving on 6 March 1956, the journey took six months and six days, over 18,000 miles.
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[@koitorob]

SNX891, the Oxford motor, is still going strong. I saw it at a few Land Rover shows last year. Sympathetically restored but maintaining all of it's patina!

[@alessandrowda]

It’s a shame that the Cambridge Land Rover no longer exists.

[@Evaunit98]

She’s more than going strong, she retraced the original route starting in Singapore and after a slight mishap with a wheel baring she made it back to London

[@Jeffybonbon]

Thats what Landrover is for not messing about in a quarry and alike Fantastic would love to do something like that

[@overnighter]

This is epic. Cheers 👍

[@TonyW2444]

My father, Trevor Webster and Alan Taylor did London to Sydney in 2 Morris 8s in 1958 with their wives and me as an 18 month old baby, same roads and same time line and never got this coverage.

[@tonyalways7174]

Nothing quite like a bit of mechanicking in the middle of a river to keep the show on the road 😂👍🏻

[@LDdiscovery]

amazing the best vehicle ever..!!!

[@bensonlifestories]

This is brilliant

[@koitorob]

15 miles in two hours? Still quicker than driving across London!

[@ramarover]

fantastic, thanks for posting this!

[@felixitobi]

What s the classic music of video 1:23 and 2:30?

[@Jeffybonbon]

What a Car Nothing like them

[@zakaria3612]

Land Rover forever

[@jonjones1553]

At 00:20 how did they come up with the "more than 18000 miles by Land rover"? According to Google it is about 7000 miles.

[@DynamicLearning4u]

Life does not travel in a straight line?

[@jonjones1553]

@@DynamicLearning4u Yes I know the steering is abit vague on old Land Rovers but the maths do not add up.

[@eastsideextremer3861]

Google does not capture the old road. And the old days most of the road not straight. its an abandoned road & road for logging activities

[@linocappelli2765]

Five years late but in the book they talk about only publishing the way to and not the way back.

[@granskare]

good ole' General Stiwell aka Vinegar Joe :)

[@andytheworld.]

정말 대단한 분들.. 그 시절에.

[@zola561]

And we go and sell a legend and institution to Germany and then it goes to India . What is this country thinking of selling history should not of been an option !!

[@faireyoverdrive]

I say jolly good show old bean. Do you think this kind of thing will catch on? I should coco

[@shelby_the_rover]

The Autobahn from Stuttgart to Munich, das klingt echt witzig