A Wolf 110 soft top Fitted For Radio: the NATO-green TUM with a 24-volt second alternator to power a signals fit, here following the Bowman-equipped Royal Signals configuration — the vehicle that carried a headquarters' radios, in the form documented by a July 1998 example, R985 VSM, that served until 2020.
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110BUILT BYLand RoverIN SERVICE1996–98OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONUnknown as a separate figureLAYOUT4 wheels · 110″
The record
FFR — Fitted For Radio — is the British Army's designation for a vehicle wired to carry a signals installation: a 24-volt system with a second alternator to keep the batteries up while the radios run, separate from the vehicle's own electrics. On the Wolf it applied to the TUM 110 in soft-top form, and from the mid-2000s the radios it carried were the Bowman system, the digital VHF and HF sets that replaced Clansman.
The documented vehicle behind this record is R985 VSM, a Wolf 110 FFR soft top manufactured into service in July 1998 for the MoD's Signals, with the 300 Tdi four-cylinder diesel, a PVC soft top fastened by zips and Velcro or Dutch-laced down the sides, a snorkel, side-mounted spare, front lamp guards, NATO hitch and MOD front bumper, in NATO Green over a denim vinyl-twill interior. It was cast from service and registered for civilian life in February 2020 with 48,000 miles, and sold on without its Bowman sets — the radios go back to the army, the wiring does not.
The Wolf order of January 1996 ran to some 8,000 vehicles, of which the FFR 110s were a substantial part; a separate FFR figure is not published.
Specification
MANUFACTURERLand Rover
MANUFACTUREDWolf production from the 1996 order; the documented example entered service July 1998
ENGINE2.5 L (2,495 cc) 300 Tdi intercooled turbodiesel inline-four, c. 111 bhp, R380 five-speed gearbox
PRODUCTION RUNUnknown as a separate figure — part of the ~8,000-vehicle Wolf order
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSwithdrawn
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYMilitary · UK
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.
Imagery
No published image yetA rendering impression or a free-licence photograph will appear here once one is published — the sources below link to photographs elsewhere
Where it was
GB United Kingdom1998–2020
BuiltLand Rover, Lode Lane, SolihullUnited Kingdom · 1996–199852.43, -1.78
5Wolf TUM high-roof prototype · HERITAGE-FLEET-REFERENCES.md
Extra-height roof; military doors and equipment; prototype body details.
Reference: https://dunsfoldcollection.co.uk/collection/110-wolf-tum-prototype/
