Press photograph 199239  1968
 
 
1992 
Jaguar calendar 1992

I suggested to the editor of The Driving Member (club magazine of The Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club) that these two photographs would make a nice combination for publication in the magazine. So they were published in the February 2005 issue.

DLOC club member Adrian Boulding was so fascinated by the combination, that he found out where the photo was taken: it is London's busy Piccadilly thoroughfare, looking West from Piccadilly Circus.

Adrian sent me the folling comment:

The street scene is remarkably similar now - looking at the buildings on the north side of Piccadilly (on the right of the photo). The Bank of Scotland has become a foreign exchange shop, "The Money Corporation"

The shop with the impressive corner frontage and a stone crest over the door is still the same traditional gentlemen's clothing shop, only now called just "Cornings" instead of "J C Corning & Co Ltd" as in the photo. "We moved here from The Strand in 1890 Sir" was what they told me.

And the hotel whose porch is visible just over the roof of the Daimler was "The Piccadilly" but is now "Le Meridien Piccadilly".

Car MDU808F was the 2nd limousine from the production line. Jaguar kept it as a "factory demonstrator" and it shows on many photographs on this website.
The yellow limousine WOM366T is from the collection of the Transport Museum in Coventry. More info on this car is elsewhere on this website.