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Record Creation: Entered on 7 May 2009.

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Heritage Notes

Guarantee date & owner:
19 Sept 1952
J Elliott

Car History

From The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere (2009) by Elmgreen & McGrath

India, fate unknown

John Elmgreen (from Sydney, Australia) and Terry McGrath (Perth, Western Australia) have been extreme XK enthusiasts since the 1970s if not before. In 1985 they published "The Jaguar XK in Australia". It was described by Alan Clark (Jaguar expert, historian, Minister in the UK Thatcher government) as amongst Jaguar books "my own personal favourite" and by Jaguar automobilia expert Ian Cooling as a superb book standing "supreme in the Jaguar library as a testament to years of diligent research and scholarship". Terry McGrath is also co-author of the monumental "Forerunners of Jaguar in Australasia and SE Asia". The new book "The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere" is to be followed in due course by XK140 and XK150 volumes.

© Elmgreen & McGrath

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2017-07-26 12:34:19 | John Elmgreen writes:

This car was bought new by J. Elliott on the order of one of the Jaguar distributors in India, but was delivered directly from the works, registered in Coventry for export. It does apparently survive somewhere it seems - I have found a shipping record of it under its chassis number - but do not have a record of the location or even the date.

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