SWISS ROLES REVIVED
MARCH 1961, GENEVA: Jaguar is ready to unleash the E-type after a long gestation. The XK140 had still been selling well in 1956 when the first E-type prototype, E1A, was conceived, while the D-type was in its Le Mans-dominating pomp. By the time the XK150 was announced in 1957, though, the XK concept was ageing and a quantum leap was needed.
Two prototype roadsters bore the brunt of the testing in the late ’50s and
