Jaguar Sports Racing & Competition Cars to 1953

by Whyte, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781859608425
• ISBN10: 1859608426
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Haynes Pubns

Summary

The re-issue of the Jaguar motorsport history that is generally considered the definitive work on the subject gives enthusiasts the chance to obtain what has become a sought-after collectors' item. Every significant race or rally in which an SS or Jaguar, or even a Swallow sidecar, competed is covered with the personal accounts of those involved; comprehensive appendices listing details of every C-type, D-type, XKSS and special-bodied E-type built; information on XK-engined hybrids like the Lister-Jaguars and Cooper-Jaguars; the early stages of Jaguar's motorsport rebirth; and hundreds of rare archival photographs.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(1)
F.R.W. England
Introduction to 2002 reissue	8	(1)
Author's Preface and Acknowledgements	9	(4)
Swallow -- The Sporting Sidecar and Racing	13	(14)
Swallow and SS Cars in Motorsport	27	(18)
The SS Jaguar from 1936	45	(18)
England and the XK come to Jaguar	63	(22)
1950 Racing	85	(22)
1950 Rallying	107	(14)
1951 Racing	121	(24)
1951 Rallying	145	(6)
1952 Racing	151	(40)
1952 Rallying	191	(8)
1953 Racing	199	(46)
1953 Rallying	245	(164)
Appendix One: The Works Drivers 1949 to 1953
Clemente Biondetti	259	(2)
``Bira'', J. Claes, J. Fairman and H. Hadley	261	(2)
James Duncan Hamilton	263	(1)
Leslie Johnson	264	(1)
Stirling Moss	265	(1)
Tony Rolt	266	(1)
Ian Stewart	267	(1)
Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead	268	(1)
Tommy Wisdom	269	(3)
Appendix Two: The SS, XK and C-type Racing Round the World (the ``privateers'')
United Kingdom	272	(6)
Continental Europe	278	(3)
Africa, Asia and Australasia	281	(3)
Central and South America	284	(1)
North America	285	(14)
Appendix Three: Personal Experiences
SS Jaguar 100 (Ian Appleyard on the 1947/48 Alpine Trials)	299	(20)
Jaguar XK120 (Bob Berry on race preparation)	319	(4)
Jaguar C-type (Michael Head on racing in Scandinavia)	323	(6)
Appendix Four: Contemporary Reports
General literature and road tests on XK120 and C-type	329	(36)
Appendix Five: XKC001 to 054
Individual histories by chassis number	365	(44)
Index	409