Jaguar Sports Racing & Works Competition Cars from 1954

by Whyte, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781859608432
• ISBN10: 1859608434
• 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

Introduction to 2002 reissue	6	(1)
Introduction	7	(9)
Acknowledgements	16	(1)
From C-type to D-type	17	(19)
D-type Racing, 1954	36	(29)
A New-look Team for 1955	65	(16)
Le Mans 1955	81	(22)
An Unfulfilled Season (June--Dec. `55)	103	(13)
The Works Team's Final Fling, 1956	116	(24)
Production D-type and XKSS	140	(15)
D-type ex-works Operations	155	(20)
E1A & E2A and the Last D-days at Le Mans	175	(21)
The Comp. Shop lives on	196	(24)
The six-cylinder E-type, and Customer Service	220	(28)
The XJ13	248	(20)
BL and Broadspeed	268	(16)
Racing Revival, USA	284	(61)
The Works, the XJ-S and Walkinshaw	345	(53)
From Group A to Group C	398	(30)
Appendix One: The Works Drivers from 1954	428	(12)
Appendix Two: Privateers at home and abroad	440	(36)
Appendix Three: Personal Experience	476	(13)
Appendix Four: Contemporary Reports	489	(39)
Appendix Five: D-types -- Individual Histories	528	(54)
Appendix Six: 1955 Le Mans Summary	582	(4)
Appendix Seven: D-type MIRA Test Record	586	(4)
Appendix Eight: 1964 Le Mans Report	590	(5)
Appendix Nine: Special-build E-type Individual Histories	595	(3)
Appendix Ten: Racing XK Engine Test Results	598	(7)
Appendix Eleven: XJ13 Test Reports	605	(6)
Le Mans: A Last Word	611	(8)
Index	619