96 EDITION 198 JAGUAR MAGAZINEPROWL
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Intriguing finds and
questions needing to
be answered05 Outside the Henlys showroom
in Piccadilly, victorious Alpine Rally
winners, husband and wife, Ian
Appleyard and Pat (Lyons). Their
car is an XK120 they made an
international legend, chassis #42 or
NUB120.
06 A sensational shot of XK120
RHD chassis #9, and part of the
Shorter family library in Auckland,
New Zealand. It was the first
XK120 in that country, and is
highlighted by the huge Tasman
Empire Airways Limited 1949 Short
Solent flying boat RMA Ararangi.
It flew between New Zealand and
Australia, and was scrapped in- #09 is in the UK.
01 In late 1953 Jaguar
created two MkVII saloons
with electrically operated
fold-down fabric roofs. It
even allocated them with
chassis numbers #750001
and #750002 - but no
photographs of them were
ever taken. Or were they?
This shot is a cropped
image taken in Jaguar's
Experimental Department
where the first D-Types
were being built for Le
Mans in 1954.
It has never been
noticed before, but in the
background is the hybrid
C/D-Type XKC054 - and
two MkVIIs.
Yes, the car in the
foreground can only be
identified by its mudguard
and light paint tone, but
the Jaguar at the rear
is clearly a dark MkVII
with what appears to be
different than standard
side windows and roof
profile. We think it very
likely these are those
MkVII DHCs which were
scrapped soon after.
02 Newly crowned Queen
Elizabeth and Prince
Phillip are here with one of
the Royal Daimler DE36s
in either Australia or New
Zealand in 1954. We
believe this one is owned
in the US today.05
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