Speedo in command recon vehicles

[110574]

The usual 7.50x16 land rover speedo has 1408 as the speedo revs per mile

speedo2 001 by NiknoDave, on Flickr

While cleaning up and refitting my later speedo with the trip meter (marked 1408 btw) i noticed the original speedo is marked 1400


madge-speedo-0022 by NiknoDave, on Flickr

i would be interested to see if any other Command Recons have the 1400 speedo..

or any others for that matter...

[FFRMAN]

G'day

my CR has 1400

cheers
Scott

[110574]

begs the question

why was the 1400 speedo fitted instead of the 1408 as all the CR's came out with 7.50/16 fitted according to remlr info

hmmmmm

[Phoenix]

I wouldn't have thought 8 revs per mile would be much of a tyre size difference, but less revolutions per mile would indicate larger tyres would it not?

[110574]

is an oddity

have found 4 CR's with the 1400 speedo now

has me in as to whether they were a special order or were supplied due to the 1408's not being readily available at the time

means the speedo displayed faster than actual speed 

is 35 feet difference per mile so is about .6% difference so i reckon they grabbed some from someone elses stock because they were low.

were the CR's CKD's?

[korg20000bc]

Hasn't been swapped out from another vehicle some time in the past?

[Phoenix]

I don't know if the CR was CKD or not to be honest!

[FFRMAN]

Hi,

All CR's where full imports, notckd's.

My speedo is original and 1400, don't know anymore than that. Except 6.50 x 16 was the original size tyre fitted.

Cheers
Scott

[110574]

i thought all the CR were 7.50x16 as per the lists on the remlr pages..

richard?
 

[Phoenix]

I don't have a command recon parts book per say, or the command recon specifications, however the ARN books certainly list them all with 750x16 tyres quite clearly.  I think only the couple of trial units before them had anything smaller.

[110574]

Hi,

All CR's where full imports, notckd's.

My speedo is original and 1400, don't know anymore than that. Except 6.50 x 16 was the original size tyre fitted.

Cheers
Scott

calvin shows mine as a ckd

[FFRMAN]

Yeah mine says CKd on CalVin too, I am sure they where full imports, Uncle Ho will know - hope he reads this and lets us know - does anyone else know for sure?

regards
Scott

[korg20000bc]

Just wondering.
The speedo cable links into the gearbox, was there a change in gearing that would have resulted in the +8 revolutions?
Were Jaeger speedos in any other vehicles?

[Phoenix]

Re CKD< we have on remlr the following passage

"In late 1958 the AMF commenced taking delivery of the new Series 2 Land-Rover after trials to find a replacement for the Austin Champ which had been in service since 1950. These Series 2 vehicles in SWB (some 1958 units had late Series 1 engines and some 1958 units had the O.H.V. Series 2 engine) and LWB (1959 models) were supplied with minimal modifications after assembly at Sydney's Pressed Metal Corp (CKD RHD kits from England)...

That said, we now know that the information about engines is inaccurate, perhaps they were CKD ??

[110574]

mine has a pressed metal corp body number plate so that would tally.

wonder what a british heritage search would find...

hmmmmmm