Recent additions / change log of this web site

• January 2026
  • Via Facebook I received a nice photo taken in Edinburgh in 1986. That car still had its original license number OVR964W. I added it to the page with contemporary photos.
  • Christian Vanik from Vienna submitted a magazine article published in the Hungarian 'Veterán Auto és Motor' magazine, in which his ex-royal car figures. Christian also added a set of translations into English. This was added to the page with non-English magazine articles.
  • Rolf Bohrmann pointed me to an article in the Swiss on-line platform "Zwischengas" about the DS420 that was purchased in 1970 by the management of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz. I added it to the page with non-English magazine articles.
  • Peter Irwin, coordinator of the 'Flagships' section of the magazine of the Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club covered the Gaydon DS420 meeting in two issues (August and October 2025) of that magazine. I added them to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • The Jaguar World magazine of October 2024 had a nine page article that compared the DS420 with its predecessor Daimler DR450. An acquaintance provided a scan which I have added to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • Also in the Jaguar World magazine, but now April 2025, was a one page article about the last days of the DS420 at Browns Lane. I added it to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • Giles Usher, the editor of the 'Carriagecraft' magazine of the Vanden Plas Owners' Club issued a 'DS420 special' of that magazine, and asked me to join him as a guest co-editor. The DS420-relevant pages of this January 2026 issue were added to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • Giles' article in the 2026 Carriagecraft magazine leaned heavily on an earlier article, from 2009, in the same club magazine, written by the club archivist Bryan Peebles. This was also added to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • In my role as the club registrar for the DS420 in the Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club I contributed four articles to the 2025 editions of the 'Driving Member' club magazine. I added them to the 'Reports from the DS420 club registrars' section of the 'Driving Member' pages (at the top of that page).
• October 2025
  • Craig Talbot traveled all the way from Canada to join the DS420 owners' meeting on May 11 in Gaydon. Ray Ingman wrote an article about his visit for the magazine of the Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club. This was added to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • The last paper based Parts Catalogue (RTC9887CD) was published in October 1985. It explicitly states that it only serves cars built from July 1980 onwards. This is when the GM400 gearbox was first fitted. After that publication, the Parts Catalogues were only published on microfiche. Both that last paper catalogue, and all subsequent catalogues on microfiche, explicitly referred to paper catalogue RTC9183B (July 1978) and, alternatively, to microfiche set RTC9877FG (July 1985) for the older cars. Catalogue RTC9183B has been on this site almost from the very start, but I decided that a scanned version of the fiche set RTC9877FG would be a useful addition since the two are dated so many years apart.
• June 2025
  • On May 11th we had the second "DS420 owners' meeting" in Gaydon. Many photos were taken and I converted a number of photos into a photo gallery for this website.
  • I received a fair number of scanned Jaguar Daimler Service Bulletins and Parts Technical Information bulletins from the late eighties, all DS420 related. They were added to the collections of bulletins already present.
  • I found a photo of the DS420 on the Jaguar/Daimler stand at the International Motor Show in the NEC Birmingham, October 1984. This photo was added to the press photos page.
  • The editors of the magazine of the Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club contacted me and asked for my cooperation to get more DS420 coverage in their "Flagships" section. The resulting article (from their October 2024 issue) was added to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • Mark Richardson submitted a photo of The Duchess of Gloucestershire arriving in a DS420 for the opening of the new Radford Road Police Station in Nottingham. This was in 1985. I have added the photo to the page with contemporary photos.
  • I was able to buy a 1:43 scale model of the Specialities International brand. This model. in grey colour, has been on my wish list for many years. It is a nice coincidence that my DS420 models collection started in 1999 with a scale model from this brand, and now, 26 years and 80 models later, the most recent addition is from this same brand again.
  • From the moment that I started my scale models collection I have tried to build an overview of DS420 models that have ever been on the market. I collected photos and screenshots from many different sources. After my latest purchase there are only two photos left in my "Wanted" collection. I documented them on a separate "Wanted List" page hanging off the main scale models page.

The files for this web site are maintained on a computer at my home. At irregular intervals a batch of new and/or modified files is transported to the computer that serves the domain www.myDS420.info. Minor changes and corrections are not listed. Maintenance to the page "Limo&Wedding Hire Companies" is not recorded.

This web site currently has over 13000 unique pages, generated from over 40000 files (3.9 GiB). The majority consists of the four Service Manuals (1492 pages), seven Parts Catalogues (3300 pages) and eight Owner's Handbooks (800 pages). But one of the photo galleries also throws in a lot of weight with some 3000 photos.

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