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| − | The full | + | Land Rover Owner International or LRO is the market-leading monthly magazine for [[Land Rover]] enthusiasts published by [[Bauer Consumer Media]], based in Peterborough, United Kingdom. |
| + | |||
| + | ==History== | ||
| + | The first issue of Land Rover Owner was launched in July 1987 and featured a picture of [[Captain Mark Phillips]] and his horse on the front cover. The second issue front cover featured Her Majesty The Queen with her Series III Land Rover. The third front cover marked a change in direction with a Land Rover being driven off-road, which is what has been featured on the front cover ever since. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Land Rover Owner was the brainchild of a group of East Anglian businessmen. They clearly thought a magazine aimed at Land Rover owners would be snapped up by the country set, hence the pictures of the Royal Family on the first two front covers. | ||
| + | |||
| + | The first issue cost £1 for 40 pages (mainly black and white), but back then there were just two models to write about – the Land Rover and the Range Rover. | ||
| + | |||
| + | The first two issues sold well, but not to the intended audience. There were tens of thousands of Land Rover enthusiasts who had never had the chance to read a magazine about their favourite subject. Although Land Rover Owner wasn’t aimed at them , they were snapping it up all the same. | ||
| + | |||
| + | The magazine owners were quick to recognise this and the successful future format of LRO began to take shape. | ||
| + | |||
| + | The event that really captured the public’s imagination two decades ago was the Camel Trophy: rough, tough and politically incorrect, it involved blokes in Land Rovers storming through the world’s remaining wildernesses. In years to come, the Camel Trophy would become tamer in order to appease its green critics (and thus lose its essential appeal). | ||
| + | |||
| + | It was five years later until greenlining – or ‘green-roading’ as it was known – first featured. | ||
| + | |||
| + | By the end of 1987, LRO was selling 1600 copies a month, including an increasing number in the USA, where the Range Rover had finally been launched (17 years late). By April 1988 the hunting, shooting and fishing pages were completely replaced by articles more tailored to home mechanics. April 1988 issue also saw a spoof advert of HUE 166 – the first production Land Rover – up for sale at £20. Hundreds of readers fell for it. | ||
| + | |||
| + | In its third year the magazine acknowledged the worldwide interest in the marque by changing its title to Land Rover Owner International. The price had gone up to £1.50, but the issues were much bigger (88 pages) and packed with the vital information that enthusiasts demanded. | ||
| + | |||
| + | The launch of Land Rover’s third model – the Discovery – was met with a bit of suspicion. Was it a proper Land Rover? The Series III was the vehicle of choice for most readers back then. Even if they’d been converted to the new Discovery, they’d have found it difficult to get their hands on one. In February 1990 LRO reported that demand was so great, would-be customers were having to wait six months. In May 1990 LRO reported that the Discovery had become the UK’s best-selling 4x4 with 1533 sold in the first three months of 1990. As 1990 closed, a copy of LRO was 116 pages and cost £1.75. By now, the workshop pages had become hugely successful , with the Q&A format that is still so popular today. LRO carried a report in the December 1990 issue on the fleets of Land Rovers that were bought with much of the money raised from the Band Aid record Do They Know It’s Christmas? and the subsequent Live Aid concert for the starving population of Ethiopia. | ||
| + | |||
| + | In 1991, LRO continued to grow and featured a perfect-bound (as opposed to stapled) spine for the first time. It also saw the first appearance of the new front cover logo, which has changed little over the subsequent years. | ||
| + | |||
| + | In the mid-1990s LRO was bought by publishing group Emap (which became Bauer Consumer Media), which invested heavily in the title and strengthened its position in the market without losing its essential appeal to enthusiasts. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Meanwhile, the second-generation Range Rover was launched and the Freelander followed in 1997. The magazine was now something of a publishing phenomenon with well over 200 pages in every issue – in full colour. | ||
| + | |||
| + | 15 years later the magazine is still going strong, with the LRO show [LROshow.com] launched in 2008, held at the East of England Show Ground every year, and an LRO website [LRO.com] which is the UK’s only marketplace dedicated to buying and selling Land Rovers. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Editorial Team== | ||
| + | The current editorial team is: | ||
| + | * Editor – Mike Goodbun | ||
| + | * Deputy Editor – Neil Watterson | ||
| + | * Assistant Editor – Mark Saville | ||
| + | * Technical Editor – Ben Field | ||
| + | * Contributing Editor – Peter Galilee | ||
| + | * North American Editor – Steve Hoare | ||
| + | * Europe Editor – Jerome Andre | ||
| + | * Portugal Editor – Jose Almeida | ||
| + | * Clubs Editor – Russ Brown | ||
===Examples=== | ===Examples=== | ||
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| This is a documentation subpage for Template:Asbox. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
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| {{Mbox}} | auto-detect |
| {{Asbox}} | article stub |
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This is the asbox or article stub box meta template. It is the standard template used for creating new or updating existing article stub box templates. It supports most, if not all, stub template styles.
Basic usage
{{asbox
| image = just the name of the image, e.g. Image.png - will be sized at 40x30px
| subject = given before "article", e.g. "this *biographical* article is a stub"
| qualifier = given after "article" e.g. "this article *about a musician* is a stub"
| category = just the name of the category to place tagged pages in, e.g. History stubs
| name = the full name of the stub template itself, used to reference itself internally
}}
This simple usage should suffice for a great many stub templates. Additional parameters are described below for advanced use.
Full usage
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| pix =
| subject =
| article =
| qualifier =
| category =
| tempsort =
| category1 =
| tempsort1 =
| note =
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Parameters
icon or image
If the image is called with an icon template, icon is set to the full syntax of the template; that's the name of the template, plus any arguments (separated with | ), including the {{ and }} around it. Icon can also be used to provide the full image markup (include the opening and closing square brackets), if special image settings such as "border" are to be used. If the image is called explicitly image is the name of the image :- pix will likely be required as well, the default value for pix is 40x30.
imagealt may be used to override the default alt text which is set to "Stub icon".
pix
The size of the image in pixels (no need to append px). Only required if image is used and this image requires a size different from the default maximum of 40x30 pixels. (Note that in the interests of standardising the formats of stub messages, images of size 40x30 are much preferred.)
subject and qualifier
This subject article qualifier is a stub...
Examples:
- This geography article about a place in Rohan is a stub...
- This elementary physics article is a stub...
- This article about Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer is a stub...
category
The stub category the articles should go in.
tempsort
If exists the stub template (and any other templates) will be put in its own category sorted as " " (space) followed by tempsort, otherwise it will be sorted with the value of " " (space) followed by the template name.
category1
An optional second stub category the articles should go in.
tempsort1
If exists the stub template (and any other templates) will be put in its own category sorted as " " (space) followed by tempsort1, otherwise it will be sorted with the value of " " (space) followed by the template name.
category2
An optional third stub category the articles should go in.
tempsort2
If exists the stub template (and any other templates) will be put in its own category sorted as " " (space) followed by tempsort2, otherwise it will be sorted with the value of " " (space) followed by the template name.
note
If exists the value will be added, as a "small" note, to the stub template.
name
Land Rover Owner International or LRO is the market-leading monthly magazine for Land Rover enthusiasts published by Bauer Consumer Media, based in Peterborough, United Kingdom.
History
The first issue of Land Rover Owner was launched in July 1987 and featured a picture of Captain Mark Phillips and his horse on the front cover. The second issue front cover featured Her Majesty The Queen with her Series III Land Rover. The third front cover marked a change in direction with a Land Rover being driven off-road, which is what has been featured on the front cover ever since.
Land Rover Owner was the brainchild of a group of East Anglian businessmen. They clearly thought a magazine aimed at Land Rover owners would be snapped up by the country set, hence the pictures of the Royal Family on the first two front covers.
The first issue cost £1 for 40 pages (mainly black and white), but back then there were just two models to write about – the Land Rover and the Range Rover.
The first two issues sold well, but not to the intended audience. There were tens of thousands of Land Rover enthusiasts who had never had the chance to read a magazine about their favourite subject. Although Land Rover Owner wasn’t aimed at them , they were snapping it up all the same.
The magazine owners were quick to recognise this and the successful future format of LRO began to take shape.
The event that really captured the public’s imagination two decades ago was the Camel Trophy: rough, tough and politically incorrect, it involved blokes in Land Rovers storming through the world’s remaining wildernesses. In years to come, the Camel Trophy would become tamer in order to appease its green critics (and thus lose its essential appeal).
It was five years later until greenlining – or ‘green-roading’ as it was known – first featured.
By the end of 1987, LRO was selling 1600 copies a month, including an increasing number in the USA, where the Range Rover had finally been launched (17 years late). By April 1988 the hunting, shooting and fishing pages were completely replaced by articles more tailored to home mechanics. April 1988 issue also saw a spoof advert of HUE 166 – the first production Land Rover – up for sale at £20. Hundreds of readers fell for it.
In its third year the magazine acknowledged the worldwide interest in the marque by changing its title to Land Rover Owner International. The price had gone up to £1.50, but the issues were much bigger (88 pages) and packed with the vital information that enthusiasts demanded.
The launch of Land Rover’s third model – the Discovery – was met with a bit of suspicion. Was it a proper Land Rover? The Series III was the vehicle of choice for most readers back then. Even if they’d been converted to the new Discovery, they’d have found it difficult to get their hands on one. In February 1990 LRO reported that demand was so great, would-be customers were having to wait six months. In May 1990 LRO reported that the Discovery had become the UK’s best-selling 4x4 with 1533 sold in the first three months of 1990. As 1990 closed, a copy of LRO was 116 pages and cost £1.75. By now, the workshop pages had become hugely successful , with the Q&A format that is still so popular today. LRO carried a report in the December 1990 issue on the fleets of Land Rovers that were bought with much of the money raised from the Band Aid record Do They Know It’s Christmas? and the subsequent Live Aid concert for the starving population of Ethiopia.
In 1991, LRO continued to grow and featured a perfect-bound (as opposed to stapled) spine for the first time. It also saw the first appearance of the new front cover logo, which has changed little over the subsequent years.
In the mid-1990s LRO was bought by publishing group Emap (which became Bauer Consumer Media), which invested heavily in the title and strengthened its position in the market without losing its essential appeal to enthusiasts.
Meanwhile, the second-generation Range Rover was launched and the Freelander followed in 1997. The magazine was now something of a publishing phenomenon with well over 200 pages in every issue – in full colour.
15 years later the magazine is still going strong, with the LRO show [LROshow.com] launched in 2008, held at the East of England Show Ground every year, and an LRO website [LRO.com] which is the UK’s only marketplace dedicated to buying and selling Land Rovers.
Editorial Team
The current editorial team is:
- Editor – Mike Goodbun
- Deputy Editor – Neil Watterson
- Assistant Editor – Mark Saville
- Technical Editor – Ben Field
- Contributing Editor – Peter Galilee
- North American Editor – Steve Hoare
- Europe Editor – Jerome Andre
- Portugal Editor – Jose Almeida
- Clubs Editor – Russ Brown
Examples
Using image
Based on {{Østfold-geo-stub}}:
{{Asbox
| image = Østfold_våpen.svg
| pix = 30
| subject = [[Østfold]] location
| category = Østfold geography stubs
| tempsort = *
| name = Template:Østfold-geo-stub
}}
appears as:
| 30px | This Østfold location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Demo categories: Category:Østfold geography stubs | Category:Østfold geography stubs| * | Category:Stub message templates needing attention|NAsbox/doc | Category:Stub message templates | Category:Exclude in print | Category:Stub message templates needing attention|BAsbox/doc
Using icon and category1
Using icon allows more flexibility in some circumstances than image and pix, since it can be used with templates. Based on {{Wales-footy-bio-stub}}:
{{asbox
| icon = {{Soccer icon|Wales|50}}
| subject = biographical
| qualifier = related to Welsh association football
| category = Welsh football biography stubs
| tempsort = *
| name = Template:Wales-footy-bio-stub
}}
appears as:
| Template:Soccer icon | This biographical article related to Welsh association football is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Demo categories: Category:Welsh football biography stubs | Category:Welsh football biography stubs| * | Category:Stub message templates needing attention|NAsbox/doc | Category:Stub message templates | Category:Exclude in print | Category:Stub message templates using icon parameter
Whatlinkshere
The page here should have a complete list of all templates using this template. This list can be compared with existing list of stub templates to identify new stub templates created out of process. The last entries will also be the most recently created items.
This template contains:
{{navbar|{{{name}}}|mini=yes|style=position:absolute; right:15px; font-size:smaller; display:none;}}
allowing a user to specify with css that three links regarding the stub template are shown (see [1]). A side effect is that a non-existing talk page of the stub template may show up on Special:WantedPages.
See also
- {{Ambox}}, for messageboxes on article pages.
- {{Cmbox}}, for messageboxes on category pages.
- {{Imbox}}, for messageboxes on file (image) pages.
- {{Tmbox}}, for messageboxes on talk pages.
- {{Fmbox}}, for header and footer messageboxes.
- {{Ombox}}, for messageboxes on other types of page.
- {{Mbox}}, for messageboxes that are used in different namespaces and change their presentation accordingly.
Closely related metatemplates:
- {{Asbox}}, for messageboxes in article stubs.
- {{Dmbox}}, for messageboxes on disambiguation or set-index pages.
- {{Ivmbox}}, a simple full-width box with default ivory background intended to frame important messages or notices.
Templates intended to be used in conjunction with Mboxes:
- {{Ombox/shortcut}}, an alternative to {{Shortcut}} for use in Mbox templates