Jaguar Sports Racing & Works Competition Cars to 1953

‘Jaguars in Motorsport up to 1953’ is the definitive work on its subject, and a further volume was published covering the period from 1954. During writing, every month would bring forth new discover¬ies which had to be included as Andrew Whyte dug ever deeper into Jaguar's motor sport past, and as pre¬viously unpublished photographs and fresh snippets of information surfaced. This book represents all that is best in the fields of automotive journalism and histor¬ical research. This is the complete history of SS and Jaguar in motorsport: it leaves no stone unturned in its coverage of every significant race or rally in which an SS or Jaguar competed — or even a Swallow sidecar! Through most of his working life Andrew Whyte has been employed by Jaguar, having served an apprenticeship with the company, edited the internal magazine, The Jaguar Journal, and even¬tually becoming the P.R. Manager under 'Lofty' England. Because of this unique association with Jaguar and his relationship with key figures in its history he has, for the first time, been able in this book to relate the inside story of Jaguar's involve-ment with, and attitude to, motorsport. This chronicle of the SS100, XKI20 and C-type era is lucidly presented and frequently punctuated by the personal accounts of those involved — such as Ian Appleyard, whose contemporary reports of rallying the SS100 and XK120 are superbly entertaining. So complete is this book, that Andrew Whyte has even recorded an individual history for each of the fifty-four C-types built by Jaguar.