Mr defender

摘要

How did the Defender get its name - and why? Bill Morris, Land Rover's chief engineer at the time, tells Steve Cropley the story behind the Defender's arrival. Bill Morris looks like a man born behind the wheel a Land Rover Defender. He sits comfortably in the driving seat of a One Ten at the top of The Staircase, one of the tougher obstacles for 4×4s on Solihull's famous Land Track, and smiles at the memory of tackling it a minute earlier, resting his arm on the window sill the way Defender people do when in all but the dead of winter.