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Land-Rover Series 2.

The series-two (S2) Land-Rover introduced a little (!) styling in the form of a waist and modesty panels to partially hide the chassis and underbody mechanical parts; those panels were often removed later. The engine also grew to 2.25L.

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Some Dates.

ex-army - LROC(Vic) Review 1990, photo R.Stewart. Many Australian military Land-Rovers have cut-away wheel arches.
Jimmy Patrick's 1960 S2 SWB HT.
1960 fire engine - Anthony Maeder.
(See fire engines.)
S2 at Pennine LRC road-taxed vehicle trial, Tong, UK, Aug 1994 - Bill Coloccia.

Some Dates:

Back to Series 1.
1958: (April) S2 introduced. 2.25L petrol engine. Some early cars had the old 2L petrol engine fitted.
1959: 109" 10 seater SW introduced.
1959: November, 250,000th Land-Rover produced.
1961: 2.25L diesel introduced.