Recent additions / change log of this web site

• eBay
  • Through the years, eBay has been a generous source of items for my collection, and thus for this website. Unfortunately, it is now longer than a year ago that a new item showed up. My search continues, on eBay and at other places, but I'm afraid that that new additions to this site won't appear anytime soon.
• January 2022
  • I received a large set of photos of a splendid 1991 limousine, that only made 2150 miles in its entire life, because it went straight from the production line into the owner's private car museum. The photos were combined into a separate photo gallery.
  • While the limousine mentioned in the previous point was still on the production line, a series of photos was made. One of these photos was part of the set that I received for the photo gallery, and two others were published in a recent magazine article. They were added to other Browns Lane photos already present on the Production, prices and options page.
  • Muslim Gedygushev from Moscow sent a link to a 1998 magazine article on the DS420 in Russian language. It was added to the page with non-English magazine articles.
  • An article from the Oct/Nov issue of the Classic Jaguar magazine describes how Craig Talbot from Calgary, Canada, made a 1000 mile trip over the Rocky Mountains. This was added to the page with English magazine articles.
  • Tim Enloe from Kansas USA sent a handful of photos showing the thorough restoration -and the result- of his car. To show them I expanded the photo gallery of Ray Broadbent, the previous owner of the car. The magazine article mentioned in the previous point (Classic Jaguar magazine) was also provided by Tim.
  • I received a handful of recent photos from the DS420 that once was the company car of mr. John Egan, Jaguar's CEO. The photos were added to the already present photo gallery of this car.
  • When Brian Smith was preparing the 3rd volume of his magnificent "Daimler Days" series of books, he asked me to contribute an article. So I submitted a four-page story describing how the "classic car virus" got hold of me. I attached a copy of my text to the books page.
  • My collection of scale models grew again. An acquaintance donated a white Cheshire Scale Models hearse, which is an extremely rare specimen because they were only manufactured for a short while in 1993. So this was a very generous gift from a collection where this item had been for over 25 years.
• June-July 2021
  • The 1984 Executive Limousine (a.k.a. "the office car") figured in a photo shoot with actress Chloe Smillie "operating" the on-board computers. Two photos from that session were published in a German language magazine article. Now I found out that another photo is available for licensing from the Shutterstock Photo Agency. Obviously, I cannot include the actual photo, but I have added a reference to the photo on Shutterstock's web site on my "Office Car" page.
  • In 1987 H.M. the Queen received a new DS420 for the Royal household. It was registered as D500GUW. I added a few photos to the Queen Mother's Cars page.
  • The German magazine "British Classics" approached me for an interview and a photoshoot. The article was published in their April 2021 issue, and I added it to the page with non-English magazine articles.
  • Professional photographer Stephan Lindloff visited my home for the photoshoot for the article in the "British Classics" magazine (see the previous point). He shot a lot more photos than the article could contain, and made the entire set available for publication on this site. I arranged the photos in a photo gallery.
  • I was pointed at a photo from the Getty Images collection, showing some twenty DS420 limousines assembled with guests for the jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II on June 7th, 1977. A preview was added to the contemporary photos page.
  • A 2002 video on YouTube contains a short interview with Keith Cambage, the head of the limousine department at Browns Lane. I added a link to the video on the Queen Mother's Cars page.
  • High up on my wishlist is an original specimen of a magazine advertisement that appeared in 1986, describing changes "for the 1987 model year". Despite even an appeal in "The Driving Member", magazine of the Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club, I have not succeeded in finding out where this ad was published. The copy I have was taken from a small illustration in a magazine article. I have enlarged it substantially and added it to the page with various sales illustrations.
  • On my page with "a successor to the DS420?" I already showed a number of design drafts made by Cliff Ruddell, who worked for Jaguar's design department. Recently, I came across a photo showing Cliff, and his DS420 scetches, in his office at Jaguar's. I added this photo to the images already present.
  • A small article in the Classic Car Weekly magazine (May 26) announced that the 1977 Earls Court showcar was for sale again. Previous sale was in 2015, and the car was in need of a restoration then. But until now no restoration efforts were started. I attached the article as the last (12th) image in the series of colour photos from the 2015 sales offer, which in turn is attached to the press photo showing the car on the Motor Show stand. To see the new article, click through to the last photo in this series.
  • A scammer on eBay offers the same DS420 limousines over and over again under different sellers' identities. I added a warning to my "How to buy" page, and attached a gallery of eBay screenshots.
  • Until now this website supported the http-protocol exclusively. Browsers gave a security-warning message in case an access via https was made. Since this website has no forms to submit any user-information, https is superfluous from a security point of view. And keeping https-certificates up-to-date is a burden. However, to react on the complaints of some visitors, I have enabled https-access next to http. Apart from the absence of the security-warning message, you are not supposed to notice any difference.
• March 2021
  • I wrote an article for the The Driving Member magazine of the Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club, on a 1982-85 project with which Daimler aimed to prepare the DS420 for sale in the USA. It was published in the March 2021 edition. A copy of that article was added to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • I also reworked the text of that article as a new top-level webpage for this site, with many additional illustrations.
  • Besides club magazines, a variety of "general" magazines is devoted to the Jaguar brand. I rely on eBay sellers explicitly specifying that a certain magazine issue has an article that is of interest to DS420 fans. Recently a seller advertised a 2016 copy of the Classic Jaguar magazine containing a four page article on the DS420. I added it to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • From a later issue of that Classic Jaguar magazine (April/May 2020) came a 7-page article, which was also added to the page with English language magazine articles.
  • Early 1980, when the production in Browns Lane had started, three pressphotos with car DCV803V were published: one with its interior, and two showing the exterior. The photo of the interior was already on this site, and now I could buy one of the two exterior photos. It was added to the press photos page. I also added a print of the other exterior photo, contributed from another collection.
  • A photo of the body assembly at Browns Lane, around 1985, was already shown on this site. It was contributed as a scan from another collection. Now I could buy a different photo, taken at the same place and time. It was added to the page with Production, prices and options, next to the other one.
  • From the same year 1985 came two photos shot at Warwick Castle, just 14 miles from Browns Lane. They were not published as official press photos, but without doubt they originate directly from Jaguar/Daimler. They were added to the press photos page.
  • A contemporary photo from a limo sold in 1973 to a London car hire company was added to the contemporary photos 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 9298 unique pages, generated from 29959 files (2787 MiB). The majority consists of the four Service Manuals (1492 pages), three Parts Catalogues (1261 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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