SS & Jaguar Cars — 1½ Litre, 2½ Litre, 3½ Litre, SS100 & Mark V, 1936-1951

by Allan Crouch

These engines endowed the cars, starting with the 1936 2½ Litre, with performance that placed them straight into the class occupied by much more expensive machines such as the Bentleys and Lagondas of the time. Combined with flowing body styling inspired by William Lyons himself, the result was some strikingly attractive and desirable machines at extraordinarily keen prices.

The author, as a volunteer researcher in the Jaguar Heritage Archive, has spent years compiling a database of all the cars manufactured through the period, establishing a complete history of their production. This he has put to good use in the preparation of this definitive work, which examines the cars, their development and their features in unprecedented and probably unsurpassable detail, to satisfy the most demanding enquirer. Competition history, sales, exports, coachbuilt cars, one- offs, colour schemes, production changes, production numbers, chassis numbers and rally entrants are all included.

Containing some 250 colour photographs of outstanding surviving examples of the cars, along with images from the archives, this is truly the most in-depth study ever published of William Lyons's memorable family of cars of this period.

Contents:

• From the SS Jaguars to the Mark V
• The 1936 and 1937 Coachbuilt SS Jaguars
• The All-Steel SS Jaguar 1938 to 1940
• The SS 100 Sports Car
• After the War: The Mark IV Range
• A Jaguar at the Crossroads: The Mark V
• Exports, Assembly Abroad and Special Bodied Cars
• The SS Jaguars in Competition
• Car Identification and Tool Kits
• Appendices
  Production and Sales Figures
  Chassis Deliveries
  Colour Schemes
  Rally Entries

Buch, Hardcover, 22 x 27,5 cm, 200 Seiten, ca. 250 größtenteils farbige Abbildungen, englischer Text