The Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain vehicle that will soon
earn a reputation for its use in exotic locales, debuted at an auto
show in Amsterdam on April 30, 1948.

The first Land Rover, known as the Series 1, was the brainchild
of Maurice Wilks, the head designer for the British car company
Rover, of which his brother Spencer Wilks was the managing
director.

Maurice Fernand Cary Wilks
(19 August 1904 – 8 September 1963)

On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters
in Berlin, Adolf Hitler committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide
capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s
dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. He was 56. 

July 1947 photo of the rear entrance to the Führerbunker in the
garden of the Reich Chancellery.