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“The Jaguar Competition Department ’s true character simply shines”

Real history is staggeringly complex. Therefore simplified history sells any subject short. Conclusions drawn from it alone will surely mislead. This is why there may always be room for a fresh researcher, or author, to improve on any preceding work. It’s enduring proof that the deeper one digs, the more one finds. In terms of books and magazine features devoted totally to the brand, Jaguar Cars has surely been one of the best served.

Yet if we thought perhaps that the works of Andrew Whyte, Philip Porter, PaulVery well produced by Paul Skilleter’s PJ Publishing, its title derives from the notice on the door to Jaguar’s Competition Department at the Browns Lane factory, which was author Peter’s workplace during the era of the Lightweight E-types, whose detailed story he relates.

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