Land Rover 50th Anniversary, Cooma, Australia.

1998 is the 50th anniversary of the release of the Land Rover, at the Amsterdam Motor Show of 1948. Land Rover owners nationally and internationally will be holding events to celebrate this Golden Jubilee.

The main Australian Land Rover 50th event will be held at Cooma NSW over Easter 1998. Cooma has historical links to early Land Rovers through the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electic Project which used many Land Rovers during its construction phase. Cooma was chosen as the venue of the Land Rover 40th Anniversary in 1988; it seems like yesterday.

The Land Rover 50th is being organised by the Land Rover Owners Club of Victoria and the Range Rover Club of New South Wales. People with an interest in Land Rover four wheel drives and owners of all types of Land Rover - series one to series three and 110, 90 and Defender, and also the "rounded" Land Rovers - Discovery, Range Rover and by 1998 Freelander - are welcome. Owners of other types of vehicle are very welcome to attend and to participate in the event. Certain activities such as the Grand Parade are reserved for Land Rover products.

When:
Easter weekend, Friday April 10 - Monday April 13 1998. This is the Easter weekend and falls in the New South Wales and Victorian school holidays (April 8 - 22) so plan ahead, book early.
Where:
Cooma, New South Wales, Australia. Cooma is 600km from Melbourne, 400km from Sydney and 115km from Canberra.
Contact:
Martin Randall tel: (03) 9608 7646, fax: (03) 9608 8707, or Land Rover Owners Club (Vic), PO Box 962, Mount Waverley, Victoria 3149

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