David Wilkins

After yesterday’s Nuffield Gutty, here’s another vehicle from the Nuffield group that might have substituted for the Land Rover in some roles with the British military - the Mini Moke. The Moke was originally designed with military use in mind but didn’t find favour with the Army because of its limited ground clearance and lack of four-wheel drive. But it was successful as a leisure vehicle. Snapped at the weekend at the Practical Classics resto show.

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Mar 25 at 8:35amWeb
Show threadFrankMar 25
@davidwilkins The RAAF used them in Australia, and I have no doubt our army probably did as well.
Show threadDavid WilkinsMar 25
@vwdasher Yes - without checking, I suspect they actually made more in Australia than the UK, although they were later produced in Portugal as well. Anyway, more on the efforts to get the
Moke into the British military tomorrow…
Show threadFrankMar 25
@davidwilkins My friend has a Moke, British Leyland built in Australia. They made a fuck tonne of them here. I remember seeing paper boys using them to deliver newspapers, back in the day. No roof, just chuck the paper onto the front yard.
Show threadDavid WilkinsMar 25
@vwdasher Brits can only dream of such conditions. Here, the paper boy, the papers and the Moke’s interior would become unusably soggy from the rain.
Show threadFrankMar 25
@davidwilkins a lot of farmers used them too, you could get them as a two seater with a flat rear. Then chuck animal feed on the back and off you go across paddocks. They're a versatile thing! Posties used them in unsealed areas for off road deliveries. Even the milk man used them to deliver milk bottles once.
Show threadStewart RussellMar 25
@davidwilkins @vwdasher absolute rust buckets they were, in anything other than a dry climate
Show threadFlanFlingerMar 25
@vwdasher @davidwilkins The Twini Moke was an interesting experiment
Show threadDavid WilkinsMar 25
@FlanFlinger @vwdasher That’s what I had planned for tomorrow’s post - fascinating vehicle!
Show threadStewart RussellMar 25
@FlanFlinger @vwdasher @davidwilkins a bit like the twin engine cross-country 2CV