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"These, for want of a better word, are the 'popemobiles.' It's a word the church frowns upon, but already it's passed into the language."

Luke Casey visits Land Rover's Solihull plant, to report on a couple of specially constructed vehicles being developed by British Leyland. The vehicles - a modified Rand Rover and tipper truck - will be used by Pope John Paul II, on his forthcoming tour of Britain.


Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 14 May, 1982.





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