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Welcome to the third issue of ‘The Trust’ – the newsletter for the Jaguar Heritage Trust (formerly known as Jaguar Heritage). ‘The Trust’ focuses on the various activities and events that have involved the Heritage Trust team or its vehicle collection – many of which continue to be in support of the parent Jaguar Land Rover business. The last couple of months have seen the team preparing for the coming events season and progressing a few other interesting projects.

New Building Update: It seems like a long while since we have provided any news on the plans for the Trust team to re-locate to the Gaydon site. In fact it is almost exactly a year ago that the turf cutting ceremony took place, when JHT Trustee, Peter Mitchell took spade in hand to mark the official start of the ‘Museum Collection Centre’ project. As is often the way, the project has suffered a few delays since then – partially as a result of the decision to incorporate an extra building in the plans that will follow in Q2 2016; this is to house some of the James Hull vehicle collection purchased by Jaguar Land Rover last year.

However, the building work finally got underway a couple of months ago and the ground works for the site are now progressing well. In the meanwhile a series of meetings has been taking place to agree the plans for the internal layout of the offices, workshop and car storage/display areas. It is hoped to be able to accommodate all of the Trust’s reserve collection of Jaguars on the ground floor of the building with the Daimlers and Lanchesters on the first floor.

As previously advised, it will be possible for visitors to the Heritage Motor Centre to have a guided tour round the new building and view the cars on display as well as the activities of the workshop which will have an upstairs viewing gallery. The building is targeted for completion in October this year and the whole Jaguar Heritage Trust team will be based there from the beginning of November. Watch this space!

TV Stars: Cars from the Trust’s collection have been getting some good TV exposure over the last couple of months. Firstly, Episode 6 of The Classic Car Show featured an extended piece charting Jodie Kidd’s exploits on last year’s Mille Miglia.

Jodie, partnered with David Blakeley, was amongst the Jaguar team’s line-up of celebrity drivers last year and fell in love with her allocated vehicle – the Trust’s beautiful 1953 XK120 OTS, which she christened ‘Betsey’. She and David also achieved the accolade of being the best placed car in the final standings of the nine car Jaguar entry.

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The new Museum Collection Centre building at Gaydon starting to take shape

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The episode, which first aired on Channel 5 on March 12, devoted more than ten minutes to its coverage of Jodie and David on the Mille Miglia – providing a good insight into just how demanding an event this continues to be even in its modern ‘revival’ form.

The requirement for precise navigation and time keeping while dealing with severe sleep deprivation and Italian traffic caused one or two moments of tension – as can perhaps be detected from the expressions in the picture above! Next up was a new series of ‘Cars that Rock’, which is fronted by rock legend Brian Johnson, vocalist for the band AC/DC and long-time Jaguar fan. Brian also took part in the 2014 Mille Miglia, driving the Trust’s 1953 C-type which he shared with Mark Dixon, Deputy Editor of Octane magazine. For the new series of Cars that Rock, each episode focuses on a particular brand that Brian considers to be amongst the most iconic. He was given exclusive access to factories and production lines and was able to talk to some of the key people in each company before driving both their historic and latest products.

Episode 1, which aired on the UK’s Quest channel on April 16, was devoted to Jaguar and saw Brian visiting Castle Bromwich, talking to Ian Callum, interviewing Norman Dewis and then driving the Trust’s short nose D-type with

Norman as passenger on the Gaydon test track. Later in the programme Brian also gets to try the new Jaguar Project 7 with some expert tuition from Jaguar’s Chief Engineer of Vehicle Integrity, Mike Cross, on the art of drifting!

Other Media Coverage: As well as starring on TV, cars from the Trust’s collection have continued to be in demand by the classic car media to support various magazine articles and other promotional items. As the XJ-S is celebrating its 40th birthday this year, Jaguar World magazine devoted no less than 15 pages to a major feature on this rapidly appreciating model in the June edition. The article covered the full 21 year life span of the XJS in all its various guises – coupé, cabriolet, convertible, race car, estate car and R version with V12, 3.6 and 4.0 litre engines! Editor Paul Walton brought together nine different examples of the XJS to photograph and put through their paces at Bruntingthorpe airfield on March 23. The Trust provided two fairly unique examples from its collection – the 1983 ETCC winning TWR XJS and also the last of the line V12 coupé models from 1996.

These joined other models including the comparatively rare XJR-S 6.0 litre and Lynx Eventer; a total of 67 of these interesting conversions were produced over a 16 year period by Lynx, who had established their reputation making high quality replica C and D-type Jaguars. Lynx MD for 25 years, Chris Keith-Lucas now runs CKL Developments which is a Jaguar sports and race car specialist.

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The July edition of Jaguar World will also carry a special feature on the X100 XK. This will include another article in the ‘friends reunited’ series written by freelance journalist Mike Taylor – following on the from the XJS and XJ40 articles that appeared in the October 2014 and March 2015 editions. Mike asked the Jaguar Heritage Trust once again to assist him with tracking down some of the key players in the X100 programme and providing a suitable car to stimulate their recollections.

To this end, Bob Dover, X100 Chief Programme Engineer, Fergus Pollock, Styling Manager and Peter Leake, Sales Training Manager were brought together at the Trust’s workshop in late March where they were reunited with the original XK8 show car. This had been dramatically unveiled from a wooden crate at the Geneva Motor Show in 1996 – reminiscent of the E-type reveal some 35 year earlier at the nearby Parc des Eaux Vives.

On a slightly different note (excuse the pun), one of the Trust’s cars has also made a guest appearance in a recent music video! Fans of the BBC’s ‘The Voice’ programme may be familiar with singer songwriter Vince Freeman. Vince wanted a classic car to feature in the opening and closing sequences of his latest single ‘The Singer’ and, not surprisingly, chose the Jaguar E-type for this role. The Trust’s 1969 Series 2 4.2 litre open two-seater was duly despatched down to a rather grey Kemble Airfield in Gloucestershire where the filming took place.

To view the final video, click here.

Events and Shows:

One of the first big concours events each year is held at Amelia Island in Florida. This year’s show took place from March 13-15 and more than 315 magnificent cars and motorcycles from around the world participated, delighting attendees with a remarkable automotive display of style and heritage. The little known brand (at least, outside the USA) of Stutz was the featured marque. Leading the 2015 Concours was Honouree and legendary race car driver Sir Stirling Moss, who was also the event’s first Honouree at the inaugural Concours in 1996. Moss was honoured for his achievements in motor racing and the tremendous legacy he continues to build upon. In addition, attendees were treated to the presence of over 25 of his famous race cars, including the three Mercedes-Benz silver arrows he won with in 1955, marking the first time all

The E-type reveal on March 15, 1961 (the wooden crate can just be seen hanging above the car)

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three of these historic vehicles were displayed together.

Alongside these was the Trust’s famous XK120, LWK 707, in which Stirling Moss and three other drivers managed to average more than 100mph over seven days and nights at the Montlhéry circuit in August 1952. Between them, Moss together with Jack Fairman, Bert Hadley and Leslie Johnson covered 16,851 miles in 168 hours setting nine new international and world records in the process. We were delighted that LWK 707 was also presented with an award for being ‘The Most Elegant Jaguar’ at the Concours – the trophy being a leaping cat set on a marble plinth.

To the casual observer, this looked like the famous Gordon Crosby designed leaper, but the Trust’s eagle eyed Archivist, Faye McLeod, identified it as actually being the ‘Brau Panther’ – an earlier design created by the French sculptor Casimir Brau in the 1930s. Quite why this design was chosen for the trophy is not known, but there are noticeable differences to the more familiar leaping Jaguars based on Crosby’s design that followed in subsequent decades. Next up in the show calendar was the giant Techno-Classica in Essen which took place from April 15-19.

This was a significant show for Jaguar Land Rover as it heralded the launch of its new Land Rover Heritage division. Complementing the recently established Jaguar Heritage division, Land Rover Heritage will offer original Land Rover vehicle parts for a variety of heritage models that have been out of production for longer than a decade.

As well as the Heritage Parts operation, there will be a gradual rollout of other Land Rover Heritage activities over the coming months, including Land Rover Heritage Driving Experiences at Fen End. For more information on these, visit the website by clicking here. In recognition of this, the Essen stand was dual branded and featured a fine selection of historic products from both brands – including the Trust’s 1975 XJ-S V12, a very early example that was one of the original Earls Court Motor Show launch cars.

While on the subject of Driving Experiences, March and April were busy months for this new activity which had its trial run in November last year. A brand new building was installed at JLR’s Fen End test facility in early March to be the welcome centre for all the participants who had booked experiences. This included a large showroom where ten of the Trust’s most iconic cars were on display (the so-called ‘Perfect Ten’ as reported in Issue 1 of The Trust), as well as catering and presentation facilities. Events were held on 20 days from the end of March to the end of April with more than 300 participants, including a couple of corporate groups.

Sir Stirling Moss reunited with the record breaking XK120 at Amelia Island

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The feedback was universally positive and the programme is now being extended through to October. Sadly, as the ‘Perfect Ten’ cars are going to be needed for many other events through the summer, an alternative line up of classic vehicles from the James Hull collection will be installed from mid-May. For more information, click here.

Forthcoming Events: As reported in the last issue of The Trust, Jaguar has once again entered a large team of nine cars in this year’s Mille Miglia which is being held from May 14-17. The line-up consists of three C-types, three D-types, an XK120, an XK140 and a MK VII. It includes three cars from the Trust’s collection – the 1953 XK120 OOF 748 (once again being driven by Jodie Kidd), the famous C-type NDU 289 which participated in the 1953 Mille Miglia (being driven this year by Mike Cross) and the 1956 long nose D-type 393 RW which came 6th in the 1956 Le Mans 24 hour race (being driven on the Mille by celebrity chef James Martin).

To enable the chosen drivers to familiarise themselves with the cars and practice the fine skills needed for time trials, a ‘Mini Miglia’ event

was staged up in Scotland on April 29 near Loch Lomond.

The incredible scenery and winding roads of the Scottish Highlands provided the perfect backdrop for such an iconic selection of Jaguars. The cars travelled from Loch Lomond northbound on the A83 towards Inveraray Castle and then south along The Rest and Be Thankful – part of the original British Hill Climb Championship. Finally, the route looped back around towards Loch Lomond and the finish line. To see a video from this event, click here. For further information about the Jaguar team entry for the Mille Miglia and more pictures, visit the Media Centre by clicking here.

Closer to home, Coventry will be hosting the second Motofest from May 29-31. In recognition of the fact that Coventry is Jaguar’s home city and the

brand is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, a large parade of historic and modern Jaguars will be taking place on both the Saturday and Sunday.

This will include 8 cars from the Trust’s collection ranging from the 1938 SS Jaguar 100 to the Le Mans winning XJR-9 from 1988. Further details will be announced in the near future, but a great spectacle is promised so put the dates in your calendar now!

A shot from the Motofest press launch held last October with the Trust’s D-type centre stage.

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Looking further ahead into June, two cars from the Trust’s collection will be making a special appearance at the 21st staging of the Sport & Collection event in France from June 4-7.

This is primarily a charity fund raising event to raise money for the cancer research unit at Poitiers Hospital but it attracts a large crowd of over 40,000 people, drawn by the spectacle of 500 Ferraris and many other classic racing and sports cars from pre-war through to present day. The Trust is sending its 1938 SS Jaguar 100 to participate in the Bugatti and Vintage Show and also its 1953 C-type which will be part of the 1950-1965 Le Mans group.

Finally, a reminder that Coventry Transport Museum, with partner Footman James, aims to break the record for the ‘Largest Parade of Classic Cars’, which currently stands at 1,674 set in Mexico City in 2014. The goal is to attract up to 2000 classic cars that are at least 30 years old, for the record to be officially ratified by Guinness World Records. They are also hoping simultaneously to break the record for the Largest Parade of Jaguar Cars which is currently the parade of 767 E-types at the Silverstone Classic in 2011.

The record attempt is planned for Sunday 14 June, the week before the Coventry Transport Museum’s official re-opening following a £9m refurbishment, and the organisers are encouraging classic car owners to get involved by registering to bring their vehicles on the day. For further information or to register, click here.

Other News: One millionth Jaguar XJ – Update As reported in the last issue of The Trust, Jaguar passed a significant milestone at the end of February when the one millionth Jaguar XJ came off the production line at the Castle Bromwich factory. The Trust keeps records of Jaguar’s historic production numbers and it became apparent at the end of last year that this milestone was imminent – the cumulative production to the end of 2014 being nearly 997,000 units. After some careful counting and re-counting, the one millionth car was identified as an XJ 3.0 V6 Supercharged, all-wheel drive long wheelbase model finished in Polaris White with London Tan trim.

Reflecting the changing nature of the global JLR business, the car was despatched to China on March 3 where it had been ordered by a dealer based in the city of Mianyang which is in the Sichuan province in Southwest China. New Vehicles on Display: As regular readers will be aware, vehicles from the Trust’s 150 strong car collection are currently on display at two locations – the Coventry Transport Museum and the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon. The latter of these normally showcases a selection of ten cars from Jaguar’s illustrious motorsport past, but as many of these cars are in demand for other events through the summer, it is often necessary to supplant them with alternative models. Two vehicles that have not been put on public display before have recently been placed in the

Last year’s event with the Trust’s 1954 D-type prototype leading the field!

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Gaydon Jaguar gallery. These are a 1985 XJ40 Silverstone Fire Car and a 2012 XF Sportbrake finished in Sky livery that was one of the support vehicles for the Tour de France in which Bradley Wiggins famously secured the first ever win for an English rider.

The XJ40 is a pre-production model built in June 1985, originally fitted with the 2.9 litre engine and automatic gearbox. It was built to German specification with left-hand drive and was used for Engineering development. However, it was subsequently lent to the Silverstone Racing Circuit for use as a high-speed fire tender. Among other changes the car was fitted with a 4.0 litre AJ6 engine and 5 speed manual gearbox and the rear seat was removed to accommodate fire-fighting equipment.

As an Official Supplier since Team Sky’s creation in 2010, Jaguar has played a role in their hugely successful racing programme for the last five years which has included the first two Tour de France victories by a British cycling team. 2012 marked a new step for the partnership, with the supply of a fleet of all-new high performance Jaguar XF Sportbrakes, first seen on the road during Team Sky’s historic, victorious campaign to win the Tour de France that year. Handed over on 29th June 2012, this XF Sportbrake 3.0 Diesel S had been developed and adapted in close consultation between Jaguar and Team Sky with customised roof racks, race radios, and TVs to follow the action

at the front of the peloton. The car was gifted to the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust in 2013 for preservation and is on display at Gaydon complete with a Pinarello cycle fitted to its roof rack which is representative of the 2012 Team Sky tour bikes.

Vehicle Restoration Update: Although the Trust’s workshop is now once again busy preparing cars for all the forthcoming events, good progress has been made over the last couple of months with two ‘Grande Dames’ from the collection. As reported in the last issue, one of the winter projects was to install the reconditioned engine in the Trust’s magnificent 1950 Daimler DE36 Drophead Coupé ‘Green Goddess’ and get it back into running order. The engine and ancillaries were duly installed during March by the Trust’s technicians, Richard Mason and Dave Withers, assisted by David Beales whose company had carried out the reconditioning.

The engine was successfully started and run up to full operating temperature with no problems at the end of March. To view a video of the engine being started, click here. This Daimler is a very unique and valuable car. Only seven of these enormous coupés were

David Beales working on the ‘Green Goddess’

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ever produced, each with slightly different design details. The cars were based on the Daimler DE36 chassis complete with its 5.4 litre, 150 bhp straight eight engine, but were then fitted with a custom built body by coachbuilders Hooper & Co. Only four are believed to survive. With a style clearly influenced by the US models from that era, the first of these giant machines – 20 feet long, 6 feet 5 inches wide and weighing a staggering 7811 lbs (3543kg) – was produced for Lord Docker, the Daimler Chairman and exhibited at the 1948 London Motor Show. It was very advanced for its time with an electro-hydraulic hood that stowed under a power operated metal panel (something Jaguar didn’t achieve until 2005!) and many other luxury features – resulting in the then eye-watering price of £7001 (the highest at the show).

This car, chassis 51233 and originally registered LJJ 11, was used by Lord and Lady Docker for a number of years but was eventually re-bodied by Hooper with a spare body from a cancelled order. The original car was painted green all over, resulting in the ‘Green Goddess’ moniker which was subsequently applied to the other six cars, even though none of these were green! Amongst other unusual features, the cars all had a 3-seater bench front seat mounted on ball bearing slides with the outer two seat backs hinged to enable access to the two rear seats –

resulting in a 5-seater but the opposite way round to modern cars! The Trust’s example (chassis 51753) was one of the later cars produced in 1950 and was originally ordered by an American opera singer called Jimmy Martin. It later passed through the hands of James Melton (whose cancelled order resulted in the spare body fitted to chassis 51233) and was then purchased by Richard Kughn for the Carail Museum in Detroit.

Following its acquisition of the Jaguar business, Ford Motor company decided to buy this car in June 2000 but then Ford CEO, Jacques Nasser, agreed to gift it to the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust in late 2001. It duly arrived at Browns Lane having been shipped in a container and was unloaded by the then JDHT staff who found it to be in remarkably good shape. Now that its engine is back up and running, it is hoped to return this unique vehicle to its original condition in the very near future.

Another long standing restoration project has been a Daimler from the following decade – the 1964 Majestic Major Limousine. This model, introduced in 1961, was the precursor to the DS 420 Limousine which succeeded it in 1968.

The Trust’s ‘Green Goddess’ pictured outside the JDHT museum following its return from the USA

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The Trust’s example was gifted to it in 1997 by Mr George Boulden in memory of his late brother who had owned it for twenty years.

After regular use for several years for wedding and other events, the car suffered some minor damage and was sent to specialist Ray Jensen for repair. While there, the engine was removed as this was in need of reconditioning. It was taken to the Jaguar Powertrain team at the Whitley Engineering centre whose experts kindly help out the Trust in their spare time with renovation work on old engines.

Unfortunately, other more important jobs kept pushing the work back on the Daimler’s mighty 4561 cm3 90° V8 engine – a design by Edward Turner based on the smaller 2½ litre V8 used in the SP 250 ‘Dart’ and Jaguar Mark ll based Daimler V8 saloon – but it was finally delivered back to the Trust’s workshop last year after a gap of several years.

The reconditioned engine (which endows this 17 foot long 9-seater with a 120mph maximum speed) has now been refitted and is running well. It is hoped to get this car out and about again in the near future.

Organisation Update: A reminder that as part of the expansion of the new JLR Heritage business operation, the Trust handed over all of its commercial trading activities to the parent company effective from February 1st. Jaguar Land Rover is now responsible for the two merchandise shops at the JLR Whitley and Castle Bromwich sites, and all merchandise sales online and at events – although for the time being the merchandise range can still be ordered via the Trust’s website. JLR is also now handling the order fulfilment for Heritage Parts orders where the customer wants delivery to a home address. A thank you to all those who sent their condolences following the sad death of our Administration Manager, Neil McPherson, in February. A replacement has not yet been appointed so please use our general enquiry address (enquiries@jaguarheritage.com) for any administrative issues. The remaining activities of the Trust are unchanged and all enquiries relating to our vehicle collection or our extensive archive of images, artefacts and documents should continue to be sent to the normal points of contact as detailed on the our website (click here).

Contact Reminder and Update: A reminder that all enquiries relating to Jaguar Heritage Trust vehicles or event support should be sent to events@jaguarheritage.com or by calling +44 (0) 24 7656 4431. For further information on any of the items in this newsletter or copies of any of the images, please contact Jonathan Partridge on the number above or e-mail: jpartri1@jaguarlandrover.com

© Jaguar Heritage Trust – May 2015

The 1964 Majestic Major in the Trust’s workshop with the DE36 ‘Green Goddess’ in the background

The luxurious rear compartment – with seating for six