Over the years lots of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Instructions (EMEIs) regarding Land-Rovers have been issued by RAEME to the depots of the Australian Army. Some EMEIs were very important (brake or steering improvements and so on), and some were simply superfluous (fresh orders that superceded mods already widespread). Today's modern fleet of Perentie Land Rovers probably generate few EMEIs, due to feedback from the extensive development and testing of the models 'in service'. But a less sophisticated approach prevailed in earlier decades. If a component improvement or replacement idea was proved practical or necessary by experience, it was put through RAEME channels, and a EMEI was sent out to the Army depots (to order the change to the existing fleet) and to the new vehicle contractors (to supply incoming vehicles in compliance to the new instruction).

The EMEIs were filed in ringbinders at the individual depots for reference purposes. Some EMEIs requested the destruction of earlier EMEIs. REMLR members have collected photostats of some old (30 years old) EMEIs from which templates for Series 2, 2A and 3 mods can be fabricated. Thanks to Ross O'Brien of South Australia for many of these EMEIs.

If you have any old Land-Rover EMEIs, not on this list, please pass it over here for other restorers to reference.

 
REMLR would welcome a clear photostat of any EMEIs found in such places as auctioned ex-army filing cabinets, bookshelves, workshops references, etc.

2. Complete Equipment Schedules

Complete Equipment Schedules (CES) papers were vehicle documents printed by the RAASC. They detail army mods and fittings and such things as the tool kit etc. (see LR CES CES 2025 CES 2071 CES 2003). Series 3 CES docs are on the REMLR CD.

3. Part Scales

Part Scale Books are reference works in the style of Land-Rover official Workshop Manuals with exploded view diagrams of assemblies and all parts. All Mil fittings and parts are shown in line drawings and listed with their respective part numbers and DSN/NSN's.

4. MOD Record

Has your Landy or trailer got a MOD Record plate attached to it? Do you want to know what it is?

The name -MOD Record- is most probably an abbreviation of modification record. But it could be a reference to the Ministry of Defence (UK) who probably dreamt it up... and from what I've seen, the on-vehicle post-contract-delivery alteration record or MOD plate started showing up in Australia from about 1965 on Army Land Rover Ambulances, etc. It was an imported idea from the "NATO" military. It was put in the dash with the other ID plates. When the plates all went from the dash/facia down to the side of the seat box around 1971, so did the MOD. Land-Rover Series 3 and Forward Control 101 all have the plates on the seat box. Even trailers got a MOD plate.

So why have this plate at all? How does it work? Well let's say the Army office of supply buys a new vehicle fleet. At any time after delivery of the vehicles as per the supply contract specification, the manufacturer and/or the Army engineers (RAEME) personnel can approve of a fleet wide instruction to modify, upgrade, retro fit (add) or remove parts. The order to change is issued through centralised Army channels (the RAEME HQ) but the order is then carried out in a very decentralised way (i.e., it is carried out at all the scattered bases wherever the vehicles happen to be at the time of the instruction being issued). The order coming from a central place of issue, i.e., HQ , is called a "EMEI".

In the bad old days it was hard to check on follow-through of the order and some of the fleet was always screwed up and non-homogenous or irregular. So the new improved system of EMEI orders switched to carrying an MOD referral or file number. Sometimes a group of similar/related EMEIs are given the one MOD since they all depend on each or follow from each other or whatever. When any single particular vehicle was finished being modified according to the MOD (EMEI or EMEI group) the successful completion of that MOD was permanently recorded on the vehicle itself. On the MOD plate "table" a number is permanently defaced according to the (seemingly) randomly designated EMEI/MOD number. The benefit is that anyone, anywhere (especially personnel assuming a new posting), can check the vehicles they are responsible for against the MOD files to see how up to date and "all present and correct" the vehicles are.

Any comments, contributions or corrections are welcome.