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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).
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Travelling at 100 Mph
Fred Grattidge, Lord Mayor of Birmingham by: Russell Bray Me and my car Autocar, 26 August 1987 |
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Jaguar winds up the limo
Philip Porter Autocar & Motor, 26 April 1989 |
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A dying breed
Jim Henderson Autocar, 28 November 1990 |
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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.
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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. |
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End of a long reign
Andrew Pastouna Classic & Sportscar, July 1992
This web site has an entire page devoted
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Doing a Stretch
The vinyl roof on car BMC856H,
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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.
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Room at the top
This article is well written and very informative.
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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.
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
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