Building an Icon
The VIP crew that handassembled the final pieces of the 2,000,000th Land Rover include a who’s who of Land Rover royalty from past and present. Their signatures are enshrined on a special plaque in the cabin.
Mike Adamson— chief executive, British Red Cross
Hubert Auriol— race driver, former director, and three-time winner of the Dakar Rally
Robert Brooks— chairman of Bonhams
Roger Crathorne—“Mr. Land Rover”
Bear Grylls— TV personality, adventurer, and Land Rover ambassador
Monty Halls— marine biologist and conservationist
Adam Henson— TV personality, Land Rover ambassador
Gerry McGovern— design director and chief creative officer, Jaguar Land Rover
Virginia McKenna— actress, founder of the Born Free Foundation
Theo Paphitis— entrepreneur
Nick Rogers— director of group engineering, Jaguar Land Rover Tim Slessor— crew member, first Land Rover Overland Expedition in 1955
Ralf Speth— chief executive officer, Jaguar Land Rover
Joelle Tanguy— under-secretary general, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Will Travers— president of the Born Free Foundation
Nick Wilks— son of Spencer Wilks, Rover’s managing director in 1947 who greenlighted the Land Rover project
Stephen Wilks— son of Maurice Wilks, Rover’s engineering director who dreamed up and built the original Land Rover Alan Volkaerts— operations director, Jaguar Land Rover at Solihull