4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1992
NAMED MODELSpecial · PoliceUnited Kingdom

OVIK Armoured Defender Demonstrator.

OVIK Solutions' armoured police demonstrator K414 SHR: an ex-Ministry of Defence Land Rover Defender 110 with low military mileage rebuilt by OVIK into a heavily armoured public-order vehicle in plain black, shown at emergency-services events with silver mesh guards, chequer-plate bonnet and an LED lightbar.

Sources & evidence
OVIK Armoured Defender Demonstrator — Defender, 1992 — AI rendering impression, not a photograph
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110CONVERTEROVIKIN SERVICE1992OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTION1LAYOUT4 wheels · 110″

The record

OVIK Solutions of Newport, Isle of Wight, built the PSNI's Pangolin armoured Land Rovers and offers armour conversions to other forces. To show the package it rebuilt a K-registered (1992-93) ex-MoD Defender 110, bought with low military mileage, as a demonstrator: the Pangolin-style protected body in plain black rather than police livery, expanded-mesh guards in silver frames over the headlamps and the lower front, chequer plate on the bonnet, a mesh-guarded screen, an LED lightbar on the roof and POLICE lettering on the bumper beside the K414 SHR plate. UK Emergency Vehicles photographed it on display among the police armoured Land Rovers in its gallery. It is a one-off demonstrator; its later fate is not stated in the source.

The registry's model is built on its OVIK Pangolin as the queue asks, recoloured black without the battenburg, with the silver mesh frames, chequer plate, lightbar and lettering from the photograph.

Specification

MANUFACTUREROVIK ↗
Land Rover (Defender 110, ex-MoD); armour by OVIK Solutions
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDEROVIK ↗
MANUFACTUREDK-registered 1992-93 Defender, rebuilt by OVIK (date not stated in the source)
ENGINELand Rover 200 Tdi 2.5 L turbo-diesel (Defender 110 of the period; not stated in the source)
PRODUCTION RUN1 — a demonstrator
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSunknown
REGISTRATIONK414 SHR
PROTECTIONOVIK armoured body on an ex-MoD Defender 110
EQUIPMENTMesh lamp and screen guards, chequer-plate bonnet, LED lightbar
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 Kingdom1993–2026 · MoD service, then OVIK demonstrator
  1. ConvertedOVIK Solutions, ThetfordUnited Kingdom · 2010–201552.42, 0.75

Sources

  1. 1UK Emergency Vehicles — police armoured Land Rover search (OVIK armoured ex-MoD Defender demonstrator K414 SHR) ↗ukemergency.co.uk · accessed 2026-09-11SOURCE
  2. 2K414 SHR head-on at a show — the reference this model was built from; linked only, © ukemergency.co.uk. ↗ukemergency.co.ukIMAGE
  3. 3https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/?s=police+Land+Rover+armouredhttps://www.ukemergency.co.uk/?s=police+Land+Rover+armoured ↗REFERENCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-16T05:55:32.033Z · status: researched