The Land Rover was born in 1947 in a sketch made in the sand by Maurice Wilks, then chief designer at the Rover Company. He had realised a gap in the market while using a Jeep on his farm in Wales. With the help of his brother, Rover’s managing director, they developed the Land Rover from a Jeep chassis and Rover car. By 1976, one million Land Rovers had been produced, but the company wasn’t formerly founded as its own entity until 1978. Fast forward and you’ll find the Land Rover company still innovating, and playing in the sand today—it’s next project is ‘to create self-propelled cars-robots that are able to independently navigate off-road in all weather conditions.