Jaguar World

KEITH HELFET

Working with Sir William

DURING THE early Eighties, I had the privilege of working closely with Sir William Lyons on the XJ41, my XJ40-based sports car proposal that would have replaced the XJ-S.

Following his retirement in 1972, Sir William only occasionally came into the studio to see what was happening, and it was always Jaguar’s engineering director, Jim Randle, rather than the

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