Recent additions / change log of this web site

Due to personal circumstances, the preparations for the DLOC International Rally in June 2010, and lots of work to do on my second DS420 which I want to be "presentable" at that event, the update frequency for this website will have to be decreased. Until the event, I will bundle updates in batches of three month, instead of one, unless a major topic or contribution would justify otherwise.

Over the last few month the following additions have been made:

• March 2010
  • A magazine article on the DS420 on the French market appeared in the February 1987 issue of "l'Automobile Magazine" (French language). Many of the photos in this article were reused later in the book "Jaguar, les Berlines" by Dominique Pagneux.
• December 2009
  • A press photo from the Queen Mother's visit to the Vanden Plas factories in early 1970 was added to the page of the Queen Mother's Cars. The photo was already present as part of a magazine article, but now we can show an enlarged version as well.
  • Also on a car for the Queen Mother, but now her 1983 purchase, is an article that appeared in an unknown Jaguar Publication.
  • I obtained a copy of press photo 269782 showing car ORW800R. A press photo of the same car in the same (unknown) castle environment was already present, so the new photo now shows next (right) to it.
  • When the "office car" was built in 1984, David Earl Associates provided and installed the computers and other electronic equipment. They produced a press release flyer about the project.
  • And another press photo, from around 1972, entered the collection. It is an extremely rare one. I had seen it only once before, as a thumbnail in a small car catalogue.
  • The fourth new press photo also is a hard to find one, although it was reproduced in various publications: no. 248708. On occasion of the introduction of the small Vanden Plas 1500, the three models of the Vanden Plas line were pictured on the forecourt of Blenheim Palace.
  • Ray Broadbent from Greers Ferry in Arkansas, USA, sent photos of his ex-Cheltenham Mayoral limousine for the photo gallery pages.
  • Another gallery addition are the photos of Bill Eltringham's limousine. Bill is from Prudhoe, Northumberland, UK and the photos were made by myself during the DLOC International Rally in Ross on Wye, June 2009.
  • The third new gallery shows a landaulette conversion by Steve Robey in Maidstone, Kent. Steve's company A&L Composites is the foremost converter for DS420 landaulettes in the UK.
  • A single page advertising leaflet by Hatfields of Sheffield was added to the page with various sales illustrations.

The files for this web site are maintained on a computer at my home. Every month 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 5265 unique pages, generated from 19767 files (877 Mb). The majority consists of the four Service Manuals (1492 pages), three Parts Catalogues (1261 pages) and seven Owner's Handbooks (658 pages). The  pages:files=1:4  ratio (approx.) is because most of the pages take four files: medium size html+jpeg and large size html+jpeg.

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