Please bear in mind that time moves on. These photos were contributed in 2009 and in 2021.
Do not assume that the situation (or the people, or the cars) will remain as shown forever.

Limousine for Sir John Egan, Jaguar's CEO

Sir John Egan, Jaguar's CEO from April 1980 until the takeover by Ford in March 1990, used this 1987 limousine which had a very luxurious interior fitted for him.

The car was built without a division wall, which is possible because the division is not a structural part of the DS420. As such this car resembles a batch of divisionless cars that was ordered by the French distributor Vilaseca one year earlier, as shown in this photo gallery.

This car has UK registration No. D800FHP, chassis No. 200899 (full VIN is SADDWATL3AC200899) and engine No. 7M005313L.

Apart from a mobile phone, the car has no office equipment on board. Uninformed sources on the Internet often confuse it with the (1984) office car, which is shown here.

This car features in several magazine articles also shown on this website: a January 1993 article (English), a a March 1993 one (German) and a March 2017 one (English).

On July 25th 2009, the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust sold some two dozen of its cars in a move towards a better balanced collection, and towards the long term goal to create an exhibition building that could show all their cars, instead of the 30 (approx) out of 160 (before the sale) that fitted in the (then) current museum at Browns Lane. This DS420 was sold because the Trust also have the "last of line" DS420, and the last Queen Mother's limo, which also was one of the last handful of limos produced. The sale was handled by Bonhams Auctioneers during the Silverstone Classic event as lot No. 344.

Sir John's CEO limo sold for £ 14.000,- plus a buyer's premium of £ 2100,- and taxes still to be added to this. Since then it passed through the hands of many traders and regularly popped up for sale again (e.g. in early 2017 by 'Classic Autocars of Rome' in Italy), with prices more than double the above, or even much higher than that. In May 2019 it was auctioned by Coys at Chiswick House, London (lot No. 223) for an undisclosed sale price. The estimate was £ 17K - £ 25K. with no reserve. After the auction it came up for sale by DD Classics in London, with an asking price of £ 50K, soon thereafter reduced to £ 40K. Currently (2023) it is owned by a collector in London.

My wife and I (hjt) took photos 1-15 in 2009, six weeks before the JDHT sale, next to the (then) Jaguar Heritage Trust museum building on Browns Lane in Coventry. Photos 16-22 were taken in 2021, courtesy "mrcarstagram".

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