“There were plans to convert them to LWB but on cost grounds this was deemed infeasable”

package to be fitted. For a while there were plans to stretch these vehicles and convert them to long wheelbase, but on cost grounds this was deemed infeasible and the project eventually died. However, no mass demob of short wheelbase Rovers happened and over the last year or so I have seen plenty of these compact vehicles working hard on exercises, from England to Jordan to Poland.

At the desert camps near Al Quweira, and out on the massive training area they serve, I spotted a fair few hard top Wolf 90 TUL Land Rovers and deliberately focussed on LS7 0AA which entered service in April 1998 as a TUL 4X4 FFR HIGH SPEC HARD TOP LANDROVER; this one turned eighteen just a couple of weeks after I photographed it.

With the exception of the raised air intake and what looks like the baseplate for a demountable telescopic antennae bolted to the body behind the rear left wheel, this appeared to be a standard specification TUL FFR. It had been recently upgraded with FROPS however.

BOWMAN conversion Wolf 110 hard top LW87AA devoid of antennae

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Green over yellow sticker behind side antennae indicates this Wolf 90 is fitted for BOWMAN

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Although LS70AA did not carry the obligatory BOWMAN warning stickers, one of it siblings did. Wolf 90 LU53AA, spotted in the battalion’s vehicle park, also listed by the MOD as being a TUL 4X4 FFR HIGH SPEC HARD TOP LANDROVER, entered service in July 1998. When one looks closely at the bodywork behind the rear left antennae mount a BOWMAN warning sticker becomes obvious.

I appreciate that the Cyprus-based British Army Land Rover fleet has specialist roles, so one can probably expect their Wolf 90s to be performing different duties, but as I have just photographed similar in Poland a TUL revival may be happening.