Army Landrovers in big demand

The queues of buyers are already forming as the Army prepares the first batch of surplus Landrovers to go on the market.

The army is replacing about 300 petrol-powered Landrovers with its new Pinzgauer truck and Nissan Navara light operational vehicle.

A handful of the fleet have already been sold but they were not operational and did not attract a lot of interest.

In April the Army will sell about 100 Landrovers at auctions at the Burnham and Linton Army camps and the sales had attracted "a tremendous amount of interest", said the Army's assistant chief of general staff, Colonel Peter Cunningham.

The V8 Landrovers were bought in the early 1980s.