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| | 3.4 XK120 | | Silver |
| | Open Two Seater | | Light + Dark Blue |
| | Left Hand Drive | | French Grey |
| | | | Wallace Cartwright |
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| | W5943-8 | | |
| | F4858 | | London |
| | JL12674 | | |
| | 11 September 1952 | | United Kingdom |
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| | 1952 | | |
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Record Creation: Entered on 7 May 2009.
Record Changes
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2022-06-28 14:55:23 | XK Data writes:
The record was updated:
Body Number was added: F4858Engine Number was added: W5943-8Gearbox Number was added: JL12674Factory Paint Color was added: SilverFactory Interior Color was added: Light + Dark blueFactory Top Color was added: french greyNotes From Heritage Record was added: Wallace Cartwright
MRN126 (London)Title Year was added: 1952Factory Build Year was added: 1952Factory Build Month was added: 09Factory Build Day was added: 112022-07-02 14:49:32 | XK Data writes:
The record was updated:
Top Color was added: french greyOriginal Distributor was added: Wallace CartwrightOriginal Owner City was added: LondonOriginal Owner Country was added: United KingdomNotes From Heritage Record was changed from Wallace Cartwright
MRN126 (London) to Guarantee date & owner:
19 Sept 1952
J ElliottHeritage Notes
Guarantee date & owner:
19 Sept 1952
J Elliott
Car History
From The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere (2009) by Elmgreen & McGrath
India, fate unknown
John Elmgreen (from Sydney, Australia) and Terry McGrath (Perth, Western Australia) have been extreme XK enthusiasts since the 1970s if not before. In 1985 they published "The Jaguar XK in Australia". It was described by Alan Clark (Jaguar expert, historian, Minister in the UK Thatcher government) as amongst Jaguar books "my own personal favourite" and by Jaguar automobilia expert Ian Cooling as a superb book standing "supreme in the Jaguar library as a testament to years of diligent research and scholarship". Terry McGrath is also co-author of the monumental "Forerunners of Jaguar in Australasia and SE Asia". The new book "The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere" is to be followed in due course by XK140 and XK150 volumes.
© Elmgreen & McGrath
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2017-07-26 12:34:19 | John Elmgreen writes:
This car was bought new by J. Elliott on the order of one of the Jaguar distributors in India, but was delivered directly from the works, registered in Coventry for export. It does apparently survive somewhere it seems - I have found a shipping record of it under its chassis number - but do not have a record of the location or even the date.
