Land Rover (Open) - used for delivering coal / animal feed / fertilizer in remote areas in 1970's?

[Ben04uk]

I have a small coal yard and separate Provender Store to represent animal feed / fertilizer / seed potatoes deliveries on my layout set in the remote south-west, i.e. Cornwall, in the 1970s.

 

I have various open lorries on my layout, such as a Bedford MK, Leyland flatbeds, etc which I use to depict deliveries to/from the site but would it have been possible, or indeed even more likely, that a long wheelbase open land rover (such as 76LAN1109002 Oxford Diecast Land Rover Series 1 109" open in blue) would have been used for deliveries, due to the remoteness and rugged terrain, coupled with the fact the small load didn't warrant a larger vehicle.? 

 

I have seen a photo of an open land rover at Aachnesheen in Scotland undertaking similar duties during the same period, presumably for the reasons set out above.

 

I know George Woodcock's excellent layout Bedlam Heath has included a similar land rover for coal delivery duties and I would be grateful for any views or details of photographs that show such a scene.

 

 

[The Stationmaster]

The small sectional concrete provender stores could supply direct to customers as far as I'm aware thus almost any suitable vehicle could be used for collections.

 

And as far as I'm aware the Western never had any Land Rovers in Freight Dept use - country deliveries were by rigid wheelbase lorries.

[Fat Controller]

The small sectional concrete provender stores could supply direct to customers as far as I'm aware thus almost any suitable vehicle could be used for collections.

 

And as far as I'm aware the Western never had any Land Rovers in Freight Dept use - country deliveries were by rigid wheelbase lorries.

If the road to the farm was beyond the reach of a normal 4x2 lorry, then many farms had platforms at the junction of track and main road, where things could be hand-balled off. These were intended for milk churns, but I've seen sacks of spuds and fertiliser/feed on them in the past.