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Welcome to the second issue of ‘The Trust’ – the new newsletter for the Jaguar Heritage Trust (formerly known as Jaguar Heritage) that was launched last December. ‘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. Despite this traditionally being the quiet season, the team has been busy on a number of fronts, supporting events and preparing for the year ahead – read on!

People Update: Although it is now slightly old news, the Jaguar Heritage Trust would like to add its congratulations to long-standing friend and Jaguar legend Norman Dewis, who was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in Her Majesty’s New Year Honours List. Norman’s career at Jaguar spanned 33 years, during which he tested and developed many seminal and celebrated Jaguar cars. His automotive CV is remarkable: he developed the multiple Le Mans-winning C-type and D-type racing cars, the pioneering XK 140 and 150 sports cars, the classic 2.4/3.4 and Mk II saloons, plus the Mk VII and Mk VIIM models, the legendary E-type (including the Lightweight E-type), the XJ13 mid-engined prototype, the world-class XJ saloons, the XJ-S and the ‘XJ40’ models.

Norman was also co-driver to the British racing hero Sir Stirling Moss in a C-type in the 1952 Mille Miglia and, in 1953, set a 172.412 mph production car speed record in a modified

Jaguar XK 120 on a closed section of the Jabbeke highway, Belgium. He also drove a 190 mph works D-type in the dramatic 1955 Le Mans 24hr race and competed in the famous Goodwood Nine Hours in the 1950s. At 94 years old, Dewis is one of the last living links to the golden era of the British motor Industry; those post-World War II years when Jaguar rebuilt itself into a champion sports car maker.

Still as sprightly as ever, Norman recently visited the Trust’s offices and regaled the team with stories of his January trip to Arizona where he was treated like a national hero. The Americans apparently have a little trouble understanding the British honours system and kept referring to him as ‘Sir Norman’ – no doubt much to the annoyance of Sir Stirling who was with Norman for part of the trip! Congratulations Norman Dewis OBE!

On a sadder note, we heard of the death on December 16th last year of Brian Lister at the age of 88. Brian was one of Britain’s greatest unsung racing car builders. From its inception in 1954, Lister quickly became a benchmark for the front-engined sports racing car. The Lister ‘Knobbly’, as it was known, had few competitors. Brian Horace Lister was born on 12 July 1926. He and his brother Raymond were the two sons of Horace and Nell Lister. Horace had joined the family engineering firm (established by his own father George in 1890) after the Great War and

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Brian followed in his footsteps as an apprentice in 1942 completing his training in 1946, when he joined the Royal Air Force for two years of National Service. He rejoined the family firm in 1948 when his interest in cars really began to take off. In post-war Britain motorsport was fashionable and Brian helped to co-found the Cambridge 50 Car Club, another member of which was an oddly diminutive Scot, W.A. ‘Archie’ Scott Brown. The two men became firm friends and a relationship began which saw Brian gradually moving more into vehicle construction, leaving the driving duties to his more talented colleague. In 1953 Brian asked his father to fund the development of a car bearing the family name; Horace assented and the project got underway. Brian would build the car, Don Moore would provide an MG engine and Scott Brown would drive it. The car made its debut on April 3, 1954 at Snetterton where it won. The Lister car evolved rapidly, powered by Bristol and, later, Maserati engines. On the strength of his Lister drives, Scott Brown was retained as a Formula 1 driver for Connaught, which frustrated Lister’s own efforts in Formula 2 somewhat.

Then in 1957 the Lister-Jaguar appeared, powered by Jaguar works supplied competition spec XK engines, which drew everyone’s attention. That season, out of fourteen races entered, it won twelve, setting either fastest lap or an outright record on each occasion. Unsurprisingly, customers appeared for the next year and the car was put into production for 1958, powered either by a Jaguar engine or, for the American market, a Chevrolet option. Lister was suddenly in the first rank of sports car builders, yet Brian achieved international success with great humility and on a budget much smaller than the major racing teams. It was at Spa, in May 1958 that the great adventure started to falter; Scott Brown died after a fiery crash and Brian needed persuasion to keep going. He did, but only after some lengthy introspection on his part. He continued, but persistent deaths in motor sport gave him

pause for more thought. Finally, in the Summer of 1959, he withdrew from racing completely, supporting existing customers until the effort wound down in the 1960s.

He remained actively involved in Lister Engineering, taking it successfully into the field of packaging machine manufacture. In 2014 the Lister ‘Knobbly’ was reborn under the stewardship of the Whittaker family and turnkey replicas are now built at the same Lister factory in Cambridgeshire for historic racing. Weeks before he died Brian inspected the first continuation Knobby built and was delighted that the Lister legend lives on. We extend our sympathies to his wife Josephine and his daughter.

Front Page News: Cars from the Trust’s collection have had some excellent exposure over the last couple of months, being featured on the front covers of a number of key classic car publications. First up in January was Classic & Sports Car magazine that contained a major article on the Jaguar XJ saloon. The cover featured a pair of famous Series 1 XJs from the collection – the 1968 XJ6 4.2 that was originally Sir William Lyons’ own car, and the 1973 XJ12 Vanden Plas that was the personal transport for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother until her death in 2002. Written by Martin Buckley, the magazine had a six page article titled “Pride of Lyons” that compared and contrasted these two wonderful examples of the model that paved the way for seven further series of Jaguar XJs that continue up to the present day with the latest ‘X351’ iteration.

The Briggs Cunningham Lister-Jaguar winning a round of the US SCCA championship in 1958

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This was followed by Classic Cars magazine celebrating its 500th issue in March with a special feature on three of the most famous 1990s supercars – the Ferrari F50, Lamborghini Diablo SV and Jaguar XJ220. In addition to a front cover shot, the magazine contained an eleven page article by John Simister about these amazing 500bhp monsters. The Trust provided its production prototype XJ220 reg. K994 YUD (the eighth car built) for the test session which was carried out at the Chobham test track in Surrey. Although John concluded that the Ferrari was the most intoxicating to drive and the Lamborghini the most practical as a daily driver, he was won over by the XJ220’s uniqueness and incredible performance – briefly the world’s fastest production car, tested by Autocar in 1993 with a 213mph top speed and 0-100mph acceleration in 7.9s!

Also gracing the front cover of the March edition of Motorsport magazine was a shot of no less than four famous V12-engined race cars from the Trust’s collection. This long awaited feature by the well-renowned Andrew Frankel was mentioned in the first edition of The Trust newsletter last December, following the photo

shoot and driving session which had taken place at the Blyton Park circuit in Lincolnshire during October.

Under the wonderful title “Keeping the British end up”, Andrew’s article provides a fascinating mix of historical information about each of the four cars as well as his impressions of each from the driving seat. As he comments, these cars are all from the era between Jaguar’s celebrated Le Mans victories in the 1950s and the late 1980s – often overlooked in terms of Jaguar’s involvement in motorsport. Each car made an important contribution in its time; V12 E-types were campaigned by the rival Huffaker and Group 44 teams in the US Sports Car National Championship for two years, culminating with outright victory for Bob Tullius and his Group 44 team in 1975 – the last year that E-types raced. A video of the final race of the 1975 season at Road Atlanta has recently been added to the Jaguar Heritage YouTube channel - click here to view it. The Broadspeed XJ12 Coupé from 1976 was perhaps the least successful of this quartet, competing in the ETCC for just two seasons, its best result being a second place at the Nürburgring in 1977 where it was driven by Derek Bell and Andy Rouse. It was killed off by the British Leyland management who were running Jaguar at the time, although its creator Ralph Broad always maintained that it could have been a winner with further development.

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The TWR XJS is a more well-known car as it was campaigned very successfully in the ETCC for three years from 1982-1984, culminating with seven race wins and championship victory in 1984. Team manager and driver, Tom Walkinshaw, also secured the driver’s crown. The Trust owns the winning car from the 1984 season (chassis 007) and it is regularly put through its paces at events like the Goodwood Festival of Speed where it appeared last year. The final car in this unique foursome is the Jaguar XJR-5, built by Bob Tullius’ Group 44 team from a design by Lee Dykstra. The car made its debut in the IMSA GTP series in 1983 where it notched up four victories and came runner-up in the championship. Based on these encouraging results, it was decided to enter a team of three XJR-5s in the Le Mans 24 hour race in 1984. Although none of the cars finished at the first attempt, the team returned again in 1985 and one of the cars came home in 13th place – the first finish for a Jaguar at Le Mans since 1963.

The story from then on is well known; further XJR sports prototypes followed from both Bob Tullius and later Tom Walkinshaw which ultimately led to Jaguar regaining the crown at Le Mans in 1988 with the XJR-9 and again in 1990 with the XJR-12 as well as winning the World Sportscar Championship three times in 1987, ‘88 and ‘91. Last but not least, Trust cars also featured prominently in the latest issue of Jaguar World

magazine. This included a tribute to one of editor Paul Walton’s favourite cars – the iconic XK120 ‘NUB 120’ – celebrating its 65th anniversary. Paul’s article provides a resumé of the fascinating history of this car which scored many notable victories in the gruelling Alpine Rally in the skilled hands of Ian Appleyard.

Also included in this issue is the article by Mike Taylor about the XJ40 which was covered in the last issue of ‘The Trust’ – and which also featured a couple of examples of this model from the Trust’s collection.

Recent Events Round-up: Although this time of year is traditionally quiet for events, the team headed off to Holland for the season’s curtain-raiser which was the InterClassics and TopMobiel show at Maastricht in Holland. Held from January 8th to 11th, it was the 22nd staging of this show – the largest classic car show in the BeNeLux region – and attracted over 26,000 visitors. The main themes this year were ‘Grand Prix Classics’ and ‘80 Years of Jaguar’ – marking the first of what will be a number of celebrations of this important anniversary during 2015. The show organisers, together with the Jaguar Daimler Club of Holland, put together a large stand that featured no less than 12 models to

The Group 44 XJR-5 at Le Mans in 1985

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illustrate the history of the marque from 1935 to the present day.

This included three cars from the Trust’s collection – the 1950 XK120 ‘NUB 120’, the 1953 C-type and the Le Mans winning XJR-9 from 1988 – which were displayed alongside an interesting mix of other Jaguars including an SS Airline, XJ220, the 1957 Le Mans winning D-type and even a Mark ll Estate!

The Club marked the event with a special edition of its Jaguar Gazette magazine which was given out to the many owners and enthusiasts who visited the stand.

Closer to home, a press launch was held on January 30th at the Soho Hotel in London for the Classic Car Show – a new series of 13 hour long programmes fronted by Quentin Wilson and Jodie Kidd that is being screened on Channel 5 in the UK.

Readers with long memories may remember a report in the November 2013 issue of Jaguar

Heritage News when a film shoot took place outside Quentin’s house to create some promotional materials for the new programme. The car from the Trust’s collection used for this was the famous 1961 E-type 77RW, one of the original Geneva launch cars, and it was fitting that this same car greeted visitors to the Press event in London. The programmes are being screened on Thursday evenings at 7:00pm UK time (starting from February 5th) and the 2nd programme featured two other cars from the Trust’s collection – the 1975 XJS V12 Coupé and 1996 XJS 4.0 Convertible in a piece about XJS fronted by Alex Riley play-acting as ‘The Saint’!

Other News: Another event under the possible headline of ‘Friends Reunited’ took place on January 28, when we were pleased to host a former chauffeur to the Royal household who wanted to be reunited with some of the cars that he drove. Arthur Barty was a royal chauffeur for 27 years and for a significant part of that time he drove Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. In his later years he also held the position of Verger in St George’s Chapel at Windsor. Now happily retired in Hungerford, Arthur told his story to a local antiques dealer and lifelong Jaguar owner, James Podger, who contacted the Trust to see if they could come and visit the warehouse where some of Arthur’s former charges are now kept. The Trust owns three cars formerly used by The Queen Mother – a 1955 Jaguar Mark VllM, a

A screen grab from the Classic Car Show feature about XJS – with two examples from the Trust’s collection

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1973 Series 1 XJ12 VDP and of course the famous 1992 DS420 Daimler Limousine. These were lined up for Arthur and James’ visit and the two more recent models were taken outside for a photo opportunity.

The trusty XJ12 was also used as the lunchtime transport to a local hostelry, but this time with Arthur occupying the seat normally used by The Queen Mother – directly behind the driver! Arthur had brought along his photo album which contained a number of fascinating pictures from his years of chauffeuring duties, many of which took place in Scotland; here is one example which shows Arthur holding the door open for the Queen with other members of the Royal Family nearby.

Note that the XJ12 carried number plate NLT 7 during its time in the Royal household. The Queen Mother’s cars all sported NLT plates (from 1 to 9), but strangely no-one seems to know the significance of the letters NLT!

The Jaguar XJ - One million and counting! A significant milestone is expected by the end of February with the production of the one millionth Jaguar XJ 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.

The XJ has been in continuous production since the launch of the Series 1 XJ6 in 1968 and the current XJ (X351) is now the eighth generation of Jaguar’s flagship saloon. For those who like their statistics, the version produced in the highest volume was the XJ40 (208,722) followed by the Series 3 XJ, the Series 2 XJ and then the X308 – the first model to be powered by a V8 engine with 126,260 produced.

The JLR Brand and PR teams are planning to celebrate this milestone later in the year – details will be communicated nearer the time.

Visitors to the main Jaguar website www.jaguar.com during the last few days may have noticed some changes to the section that promotes the various heritage related business activities. All the previous pages covering the Heritage Workshop, Lightweight E-type, Heritage Parts, Heritage Vehicle Collection and Heritage Driving Experiences have been updated to reflect the latest news in these areas and refreshed with new imagery.

Beginning of the line – the 1968 Series 1 Jaguar XJ6, former car of Sir William Lyons

Arthur and James pose with the XJ12 and Daimler DS420 – former Royal household cars

The eighth generation of XJ – X351

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However, more importantly from the Trust’s point of view, there is now also a page that explains what the Jaguar Heritage Trust is all about, what services it offers and contains a link through to the Trust’s own website – which continues with the current URL www.jaguarheritage.com To visit the new Trust webpage on the main Jaguar website, click here.

Building on the success of the E-type Challenge race series which ran from 2011 to 2013, a new Jaguar Heritage Challenge race series has recently been announced by Jaguar and the Historic Sports Car Club (HSCC). This exciting new racing championship is open to pre-'66 Jaguar models and will be split into five classes: Jaguar XK-series cars; pre-'66 saloon models, C-type, D-type and XKSS, and two separate E-type classes. The Heritage Challenge marks the first time such a diverse group of historic competition Jaguars will be assembled as part of a race series. For further details and to view the full regulations, visit the HSCC website by clicking here.

Contested across five race weekends, beginning on the 2nd May and ending on the 31st August, the Heritage Challenge will be taking in some of the best drivers' circuits in Europe at blue riband historic racing meetings. The full race calendar is as follows: 2-4 May: Donington Historic Festival

16-17 May: Silverstone International (GP Circuit)

11-12 July: Brands Hatch Super Prix (GP Circuit)

7-9 August: Nürburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix

29-31 August: Oulton Park Gold Cup

A photo and film shoot took place at JLR’s new test track facility at Fen End on February 4 to create some promotional materials for the new race series. The Trust brought along its familiar 1953 C-type NDU 289 which featured prominently in the press coverage. Click here to see the full release and all the images.

Film & Video Archive: Following an in depth review of various options, we are pleased to announce that the Trust has entered into a relationship with Oxford Digital Media (ODM) for the provision of archive film and video materials.

ODM is a video production, filming and internet video company based in the centre of Oxford, which creates video and audio productions for broadcasters, publishers, global brands and SME’s. It has an experienced team of people mostly with a background in the TV or film industry and has a fully equipped film/TV studio at its Oxford headquarters.

The project is currently in its early stages, but the plan is for ODM to create a library of digital clips taken from the original film or video masters, covering all the important Jaguar historical archive from the 1930s to the 1990s. Screener versions of these clips will be hosted on a website with a full search engine to enable users to find clips on a particular topic and preview them in low resolution. Once users have found what they want, high resolution copies can be ordered.

It is hoped to launch this new website later this year, but in the meanwhile ODM are happy to receive enquiries for specific material and will respond to these on a one by one basis. To facilitate this, a dedicated e-mail address has been set up: film@jaguarheritage.com

Please send any requests for archive footage to this address with immediate effect.

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To provide a taster of the sort of material that is available, ODM have recently taken some digital copies from an old DigiBeta tape entitled ‘Jaguar - The Racing History’. The resulting clips have been posted on our YouTube channel – click here and look for the most recent postings. This material covers Jaguar’s motorsport activities from the XK120 years in the late 40s, through the glorious 50s with the C and D-type, then the E-type in the 70s, XJS in the 80s and culminating with the World Sportscar Championship in the 80s and 90s. Enjoy!

Vehicle Collection Update:

The winter months provide some respite from the busy events season and the opportunity is normally taken to carry out much needed renovation and restoration work on the Trust’s fleet of cars. Daimler enthusiasts will be pleased to hear that the 1950 DE36 Drophead ‘Green Goddess’ is now back in the workshop and has had its reconditioned engine fitted. The car has been given a comprehensive clean-up and is looking very impressive – with body, chrome and the hood all in excellent condition considering the car’s age. The next big step is to refit the engine ancillaries and start it up – which is planned in the next few days!

A full report on this very unique and valuable car will appear in the next edition of The Trust.

One of the first major events of the year will be the Mille Miglia, which is taking place from May 14-17. Once again, Jaguar will be fielding

a large entry of cars with a high-profile driver line-up with the usual mix of celebrities and racing drivers.

The Trust is providing the same three cars from its collection that participated last year – the 1953 XK120 OOF 748 (nicknamed ‘Betsy’ by Jodie Kidd who drove it last year), the 1953 C-type NDU 289 and the 1956 long-nose D-type 393 RW.

The task of preparing and supporting the Jaguar team cars this year has been given to Pearsons Engineering – specialists in preparing and restoring historic competition Jaguars. Proprietor, Gary Pearson, is a familiar figure at many classic car events through the season, campaigning cars from his own stable (which includes Jaguars and Ferraris) and often winning!

The three Trust cars have now been delivered to Pearsons for preparation work which includes a complete strip down and detailed checking of all the running gear, suspension, fuel systems etc. Further details regarding the Jaguar entry in this year’s Mille Miglia will be issued in due course.

The Trust’s 1953 C-type being prepared in Pearsons workshop for the 2015 Mille Miglia

The Trust’s 1956 D-type arriving at Pearsons Engineering to be prepared for the Mille Miglia

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Organisation Update: As part of the expansion of the new JLR Heritage business operation, the Trust has now handed over all of its commercial trading activities to the parent company. Effective from February 1st, Jaguar Land Rover has taken over the trading company JDHT Ltd. which operates the two merchandise shops at the JLR Whitley and Castle Bromwich sites, sells merchandise online and at events and also handles the order fulfilment for Heritage Parts orders where the customer wants delivery to a home address.

The people involved with these activities have moved across with the transfer of the trading company, but will now be reporting to new management within JLR. For the time being their contact details and work locations are unchanged and merchandise sales will continue to be supported via the Trust’s website as well as the Jaguar online shop for a transition period. 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). In the coming days, we will also be adopting the new Jaguar Heritage Trust logo as shown at the end of this newsletter.

Neil McPherson:

We are very sad to announce that our Administration Manager, Neil McPherson, passed away on the morning of February 17th. As many of you will know, Neil was quite seriously ill during 2013 and underwent some major heart surgery. He returned to work a year ago but suffered a relapse a few weeks ago and had to be re-admitted to hospital. Although he rallied briefly, his underlying condition was not operable and he sadly lost his battle in the early hours of Tuesday morning. His family and close friends were with him throughout his final days. We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to all his family and friends at this very difficult time. A full obituary will be circulated separately in the coming days. For details of the funeral arrangements, please contact us on +44 24 7656 4425 or e-mail enquries@jaguarheritage.com

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 – February 2015

The merchandise shop at the Castle Bromwich Visitor Centre