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Hobson Industries Limited is pleased to announce a Joint Venture with Rospardo MCT Ltd to bring Advanced Lightweight Armour system development in house. Working closely with Hobsons in-house Ballistics Test Facility, this partnership will develop into a Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Joint Venture for Protected Systems that work on the THEMIS Lightweight Armour System© and subsequent iterations of this unique and unsurpassed system. The first vehicles fitted with a version of the THEMIS Lightweight Armour System© based on the Land Rover Defender platform is in service with a high security UK Government department. The THEMIS Lightweight Armour System© meets the...

Hobson Industries Armouring is a Division of Hobson Industries, the Lincolnshire, UK based lightweight armour specialists, announce the launch of THEMIS, a lightweight armour system developed directly for use on lightweight 4x4 vehicles. THEMIS Characteristics for a lightweight and a highly mobile blast and ballistically capable vehicle complete with through life support are: The appliqué armour system addresses many of the problems associated with current hard armour systems. THEMIS at 50m² on new vehicles is the lightest Stanag 1 and PAS300 tested and certified blast and ballistic system in service and is well within the GVW. The ballistic glass system...

The industrial stench of oil and grease gives no hint at the true value of Peter Hobson's pile of old car parts as he throws the doors open to a cavernous barn in a remote Lincolnshire field. I dispose of the MoD vehicles in accordance with EU rules, and that's where I get many of my parts from Peter Hobson, Hobson Industries "I've got the largest Land Rover parts store outside Land Rover," the 60-year-old entrepreneur declares as he inspects tonnes of scrapped components that he has amassed over the last two decades. Inside the dimly-lit barn, shelves and crates...

Range Rover out of Velar by Land Rover In late 1965 the Ministry of Defence unknowingly created the right atmosphere for the conception of a new vehicle, by cutting back on orders for military Land Rovers. This created the usual cry for a new vehicle, and recent market research had shown an increase in personnel-carrying requirements. And so it was that one began to notice a marked increase in internal memoranda headed ‘Personnel Carrier’ or ‘Interim Station Wagon’. Early 1966 saw the start of scheming on the vehicle, and by July 1966 a full design team was drawn together and...

Hobson Industries welcomes you to our new parts site. Over the next few months we will be adding thousands of genuine, OE and used parts to our site. All quality assured by Peter Hobson himself.