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Land Rover1/2 ton Lightweight

1968–1984 United Kingdom passenger car 17 production years
Production1968–1984
Recorded originUnited Kingdom
Classpassenger car
Background

The Lightweight 1/2 ton was a British military vehicle supplied by Land Rover. It was a vehicle designed to be light enough to be carried by the Westland Wessex, a medium-lift helicopter in service for over 40 years with the U.K armed services.

Text adapted from “Land Rover 1/2 ton Lightweight” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07

Chronology ledger

Dates with their meaning intact

Production chronology1968–1984

Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.

Wikipedia infobox ↗17 years
Netherlands RDW first-admission observations1979

First-admission years observed in Dutch vehicle registrations; this is market evidence, not a worldwide production range.

Netherlands RDW ↗1 year