Jaguar World

KEITH HELFET

DURING MY 25 years at Jaguar, I not only witnessed one of the biggest changes in car design but had an active part in it too. This was the migration from oldfashioned drawing boards, pencils and draughtsmen to computers, software and digital measuring.

What we’d traditionally used in the studio were gantries that supported large rulers to measure various points on the clay model. These measurements were

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