In recent posts, I’ve referred to the legendary service provided by the Land Rover to the British military for over seventy years. That kudos might instead have gone to the Nuffield Gutty, seen here at the British Motor Museum, which was developed by Morris in the late 1940s as a possible replacement for the British Army’s US-made Jeeps. It only reached the prototype stage but did evolve into the Austin Champ, which later served alongside the Landy.

