{"id":20971,"date":"2019-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/jaguar-sports-car-collection-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:18:39","slug":"jaguar-sports-car-collection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/jaguar-sports-car-collection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguar Sports Car Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nowadays Jaguar is known for sporty and luxurious automobiles. But only a few experts know about the beginnings of the brand. It all started with Swallow Sidecars, founded by William Lyons in Blackpool in 1922 and originally – in keeping with the name – producing motorcycle sidecars. Four years later, they moved into larger premises and expanded the offer to body repairs for cars, which were finally also produced in exchange for works bodies. As the Austin Seven was one of the most frequently driven vehicles in the UK at the time, the team around Lyons focused their efforts on this model, and later on vehicles from Standard, a UK based manufacturer. In 1928, the company moved again, this time to Coventry, and from 1931 they produced their first own car on a specially developed low chassis from Standard for Swallow. Since they couldn’t find a regulation as to whether these cars would be correctly labeled as ‘Standard Swallow’ or ‘Swallow Standard’, they agreed on the compromise S.S. (also ‘SS’ or ‘S\/S’ in some quotes), which could also be read as an abbreviation for ‘Swallow Sidecars’. The takeover of the coachbuilding company Holbrook Bodies increased the production capacities.

In 1935 Swallow was working on a two-seat sports car version of the original model S.S. 1, referred to as S.S. 90, which debuted on March 15, 1935 with new bodywork and a slightly shortened chassis. In fact, the only prototype built still exists today and is part of a Jaguar collection offered by Pendine Historic Cars in Oxfordshire. This collection is the automotive life work of the Swiss Dr. Christian Jenny, who came in contact with Jaguar in the 1970s and since then has put together his extraordinary collection. The ‘Jaguar Sports Car Collection’ is so outstanding that in 2014 even a separate book about it was published. Back to the history of Jaguar: William Lyons soon sought a nickname for his sports car that should underline its dynamics. He quickly thought about the predatory power of a Jaguar and the successor model S.S. 100 gained this additional designation. Two of them are in the collection as well. After the war-related production stop in the 40s, the brand decided to give up the S.S. abbreviation for understandable reasons. Instead the company was renamed to Jaguar.<\/p>\n\n\n

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