Daimler DS420 Magazine articles (English) 1987-present

 

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This web page shows various magazine articles in the English language, that appeared about the DS420 from 1987 on. They are shown in chronological order. Note that there is a parallel web page with articles from 1968-1986. Also, there are other pages with non-English language articles 1968-1989 and 1990-present.

Click on a page to obtain a medium size view. With that medium size view, a menu of choices appears: step to the other pages of the article, get a large view, or get a contrast enhanced view on the text (which gives much better readability, but ruins the photographs).

 
 
Travelling at 100 Mph
Fred Grattidge, Lord Mayor of Birmingham
by: Russell Bray
Me and my car
Autocar, 26 August 1987
   Autocar p1. (16kB)
 
 
 
Jag_Enth-1987 p1. (18.5kB) Jag_Enth-1987 p2. (21kB)
 
Jag_Enth-1987 p4. (14.6kB) Jag_Enth-1987 p5. (9kB)

Daimler DS420 Limousine
A Touch of History
Jaguar Enthusiast, November 1987

The car A601KDV is also shown on a press photograph, and was the much described "office car". The car EHJ423, with a grille badge of the "Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club", must be a club member's car.

 
 
 
Jaguar winds up the limo p1. (12kB)    Jaguar winds up the limo
Philip Porter
Autocar & Motor, 26 April 1989
 
 
A dying breed
Jim Henderson
Autocar, 28 November 1990
    
Autocar 1990 p1. (17kB)    Autocar 1990 p2. (19kB)
 
 
 
Daimlers at the Regent Hotel Hong Kong    Understated Elegance
by: Ian Scott
The Driving Member, July 1991

This article from 1991 describes the DS420 fleet of the Regent Hotel in Hong Kong, "one of the best five hotels in the world", and owner of the largest DS420 fleet outside Britain.
The illustration is Jaguar's press photo 321563, unrelated to the hotel's cars.

 
 
The Daimler DS420 Limousine
An Insider's View, 1980-1991
Keith Cambage
The Driving Member, September 1991

In this article, nobody less than Keith Cambage gives "an insider's view" on the limousine production at Browns Lane, Coventry. Mr. Cambage was the head of this production facility since the assembly at VandenPlas in Kingsbury closed in 1979. This article was written after it was decided to discontinue the model one year later, and almost immediately after his retirement.

The Driving Member is the magazine of the Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club. The club has always enjoyed a very close relationship with Jaguar Cars Ltd, and with the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust.

   
Driving Member 1991 p1 Driving Member 1991 p2
 
Driving Member 1991 p3 Driving Member 1991 p4
 
 
End of a long reign
Andrew Pastouna
Classic & Sportscar, July 1992

This web site has an entire page devoted
to the landaulette pictured in this article.

    
Classic-Sportscar p1. (21kB) Classic-Sportscar p2. (21kB)
 
 
 
Car 1993, p1. (13kB) Car 1993, p2. (13kB)      At the end of the Daimler
Georg Kacher
Car, January 1993

An article where a caricatural owner of a Daimler is depicted the same way as his car: a relict from the past.

Sometimes funny, sometimes too exaggerated: "the glistening wood, from ancient maple and walnut trees, was felled by eunuchs and polished by virgins....". And the author found out that the DS420 has a "ridiculously small boot".

The article also talks about this specific car being "divisionless". That is indeed the case, but what the article does not tell is that this car, D800FHP is a very special one. It once was a company car for Sir John Egan, Jaguar's CEO, and therefore was fitted with a very luxurious, tailor-made interior. Until 2009 this car was part of the collection of the JDHT. We have an entire gallery of images available on this car.

Two month later, the same author and photographer produced an article on the same theme for the Austrian Auto Revue magazine. See it here.

 
 
 
The Specialist
Lining up the limos
Richard Thorley
Jaguar Enthusiast, November 1993

Worksop Limousines in Worksop, Notts. was
a large limousine specialist garage.
The author is a son of well known Jaguar writer Nigel Thorley.

     Jag.Enthusiast 1993, p1. (12.7kB) Jag.Enthusiast 1993, p2. (12kB)
 
 
 
Jag_Enth-1995 p1. (17kB) Jag_Enth-1995 p2. (35.6kB)
 
Jag_Enth-1995 p4. (17kB) Jag_Enth-1995 p5. (15kB)

Regal Motoring by Daimler
Nigel Thorley
Jaguar Enthusiast, May 1995

Nigel Thorley (Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club) gives many interesting details on the design and on the production of the DS420.

Most photographs are from the very last DS420 built (L420YAC), now in the collection of the JDHT.

 
 
 
Pract_Classics-1998 p1. (34kB)   Pract_Classics-1998 p3. (18kB) Pract_Classics-1998 p4. (17kB)
 
Pract_Classics-1998 p5. (18kB) Pract_Classics-1998 p6. (17kB)   Pract_Classics-1998 p7. (15kB)
 

For weddings or a funeral
Lloyd McNeill
Practical Classics, June 1998

 
 
 
Jag_World-1999 p1. (34kB)  

Stretching Out
Jim Patten
Jaguar World, October 1999

Dr. Greg Beacham's company, based in New Zealand, already had built a name in "rejuvenating" Jaguar XK cars for the Japanese market. This article describes how he turned to DS420 limos and hearses: new engine, new gearbox, new...., well, everything.

On the hearses page of this web site we show a company brochure on these conversions. The photo on the last page of this article, with car OMY76P, is shown on the brochure too.

 
Jag_World-1999 p3. (18kB) Jag_World-1999 p4. (17kB)   Jag_World-1999 p5. (15kB)
 
 
 

Doing a Stretch
Side by Side - Classic Limos
Martin Buckley
Practical Classics
September 2002

The vinyl roof on car BMC856H,
a 1970 car, is not factory original.

   Doing a Stretch p1. (21kB)
 
Doing a Stretch p3. (15kB) Doing a Stretch p4. (17kB)   Doing a Stretch p5. (19kB)
 
 
 
Jag_Enth-2004 p1. (17kB) Jag_Enth-2004 p2. (18.7kB)
 
Jag_Enth-2004 p3. (18kB) Jag_Enth-2004 p4. (15kB)

Prestige for Peanuts
Nigel Thorley
Jaguar Enthusiast, January 2004

Nigel Thorley (Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club) on the production and on the current market position of DS420 cars.

 
 
 
RestoredCars July2004 p1. RestoredCars July2004 p2. RestoredCars July2004 p3. RestoredCars July2004 p4. RestoredCars July2004 p5.
RestoredCars Sept2004 p1. RestoredCars Sept2004 p2.
RestoredCars Sept2004 p3. RestoredCars March2005 p1.

The Daimler DS420 Limousine 1968 to 1992
Robert Penn Bradly
Restored Cars #165, Australia, July-August 2004
Restored Cars #166, Australia, Sept.-Oct. 2004
Restored Cars #169, Australia, March.-April. 2005

This started as a series of two articles. Greg Lewis from Perth, who helped me to obtain these copies, wrote a letter to the editor with additional information, and this was published in the subsequent March-April 2005 issue (#169). It is shown here as the last page.

The caption of the very first photo states that the picture is taken in Australia, of an Australian car. But it is Jaguar's press photo no. 189656, issued in 1968, for the introduction of the model.

 
 

Room at the top
Paul Skilleter
Jaguar Enthusiast, Vol.24 No.9, Sept. 2008

This article is well written and very informative.
The two pages with the author's own photos of the
DS420 production line at Browns Lane are exceptional,
but the captions of the main illustrations on page 1
and page 5 are incorrect.

  Room at the Top p1. Room at the Top p1.
 
Room at the Top p3. Room at the Top p4.   Room at the Top p5. Room at the Top p6.
 
 

magazine issue 49 The British publisher GE Fabbri devoted issue no. 49 of its popular fortnightly "James Bond Car Collection" magazine to the Daimler DS420 as a James Bond movie car. The magazine came with a diecast 1:43 scale model made by Universal Hobbies in China. The UK edition of this issue appeared in November 2008 although the magazine itself bears no date. The French edition appeared a few weeks after the English one. The German edition was published in November 2009, and the Dutch version in February 2010. photo DA1321a - 1991

The magazine has 16 pages of which 8 have DS420 coverage, mainly photographic. Several parts of the text seem to have been taken from an older version of the Wikipedia entry on the DS420, including several inaccuracies that were present there (and have been corrected since). Jaguar press photo no. DA1321, in full colour is used as the centerfold image. See also: here

 
 
A Daimler Excursion
George Zdanko
Jaguar Enthusiast, May 2011

Author George Zdanko describes a trip to the continent
that he made in one of his two DS420 limousines.

     Jag.Enthusiast 2011, p1. Jag.Enthusiast 2011, p2.
 
 
 
Practical Classics, spring 2011, p1. Practical Classics, spring 2011, p2. Practical Classics, spring 2011, p3. Practical Classics, spring 2011, p4.      PC's Big Fat Royal Wedding
Practical Classics, spring 2011

The Practical Classics team makes a practical wedding car choice for the forthcoming royal wedding. No, not the DS420...

Practical Classics, spring 2011, p5. Practical Classics, spring 2011, p6. Practical Classics, spring 2011, p7. Practical Classics, spring 2011, p8.
 
 

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