4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 2021
NAMED MODELSpecial · PoliceUnited Kingdom

Hobson Industries Armoured Land Rover Prototype.

Hobson Industries' armoured public-order Land Rover prototype, PAZ 4792, offered to the Police Service of Northern Ireland as a replacement for the Tangi and trialled on Belfast parades but not selected for series production.

Sources & evidence
Hobson Industries Armoured Land Rover Prototype — Defender, 2021 — AI rendering impression, not a photograph
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110CONVERTERHobson IndustriesIN SERVICE2021OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTION1LAYOUT4 wheels · 110″

The record

When the PSNI began looking for a successor to its long-serving Tangi armoured Land Rovers, Hobson Industries — the Lincolnshire Land Rover specialist and armourer — built a prototype public-order vehicle on the Defender 110 and it was evaluated on the streets, appearing among the Tangis policing the Twelfth of July parades where Joint-Forces.com photographed it in 2021. Outwardly close to the Tangi in white with blue and yellow battenburg, POLICE lettering and caged roof beacons, it differed in a single mesh guard covering the whole front including the headlamps, deep mesh skirts hanging below the body sides and the front bumper against petrol bombs and missiles, and the force web address on the cab; on the day it carried a DETERMINATION ENDS PAST THIS POINT board on its side. The design was not adopted for production.

The registry's model is built from the Tangi with the full-front mesh, hanging skirts, web address, sign board and PAZ 4792 plate; in the game it is bullet- and shell-proof and carries the blue-light boost.

Specification

MANUFACTURERLand Rover (Defender 110)
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERHobson Industries ↗
armoured public-order body
MANUFACTUREDPrototype; photographed July 2021
ENGINEFord 2.2 L Duratorq TDCi turbo-diesel (late Defender; not stated in the source)
PRODUCTION RUN1
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSunknown
REGISTRATIONPAZ 4792
PROTECTIONFull-front mesh, hanging mesh skirts, armoured body
ROLEPublic-order trial vehicle, PSNI
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYSpecial · Police

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

AI rendering impression

An AI rendering impression starts from a 3D model of this vehicle, which an image model then paints into a scene. It is an artist's impression of the type, made to give a feel for the vehicle in its element — not a photograph, and not a record of any particular vehicle.

Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the specification, the photographs and the cited sources on this page.

Where it was

GB United Kingdom2020–2022 · PSNI trials in Belfast
  1. BuiltHobson Industries, LincolnshireUnited Kingdom · 2020–202153.03, 0.10
  2. ServedBelfast parade trialsUnited Kingdom · 202154.60, -5.93

Sources

  1. 112 July 21 — Ulster Land Rover Library Update ↗Joint-Forces.com · accessed 2026-09-11SOURCE
  2. 2PAZ 4792 on parade duty in Belfast, July 2021 — the reference for this model; linked only. ↗Joint-Forces.comIMAGE
  3. 3https://www.joint-forces.com/land-rovers/44970-12-july-21-ulster-land-rover-library-updatehttps://www.joint-forces.com/land-rovers/44970-12-july-21-ulster-land-rover-library-update ↗REFERENCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-16T05:55:32.031Z · status: researched