http://www.dloc.org.uk

The Internet site of the DLOC, the Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club.

The club is definitely good value for money, especially to people who know that the spirit of a club is what its members invest in it. Investments turn out to be very rewarding.

http://www.jdht.com

Of special interest is the PDF-file with DS420 chassisnumbers, that is available for download on the My Jaguar/Daimler page. Also of interest is the PDF-format Limousine parts pricelist. It has 17 pages and thus is only a shadow of the days that the parts list was 450+ pages thick.

One of the most interesting facilities the JDHT offers is to provide a Production Record Trace Certificate (formerly called the Heritage Certificate) of your car. A guide on obtaining such a certificate is here. Note that this clicks you through to a page on the Jag Lovers web site (where the info is), although you must order from the JDHT directly (see the contact details shown after the click).

http://www.jag-lovers.org

The premier Jaguar Enthusiasts gathering place on the Web. Note the Site Navigation button at the top of the page.

This site hosts many sub-sites which are under the custody of various individual webmasters. A few of those are lively, but most have a severe anaemia. The total body of information is nevertheless impressive, although the specific DS420 coverage is very limited.

http://www.aronline.co.uk

An extremely rich and well-designed web site, full of information on the British (Leyland) Motor Corporation, of which Jaguar/Daimler and Vanden Plas once were part.

In the left column, under "Facts and figures", select "Marques", then "Jaguar/Daimler" or "Vanden Plas".
Also of interest: "Feature galleries: The converters" → "Coleman Milne/Woodall Nicholson".

http://www.vpoc.info

The Vanden Plas Owners Club caters for vehicles with coachwork by Vanden Plas, and thus includes the DS420 from its introduction in 1968 until the transfer of the production to Coventry in 1979. In numbers this is 2979 out of a total of 5044: almost 60% of all cars.

Here is a direct link to the DS420 photo gallery on the VPOC site.

Martin Robey

http://www.martinrobey.com

Martin Robey, based in Nuneaton, is a body panel manufacturer. Besides the body panels, the company has a classic car parts department concentrating on Jaguar and Jensen cars.

e-mail: scott.harrington@BTInternet.com

The R+J Group of Wickford, Essex is a car dismantler specialised in DS420 hearses and limousines.
R+J Group have dismantled hundreds of DS420 cars, and probably have the largest stock of recycled parts in existence. They also can deliver many new parts, and are a good source for restoration project cars. Contact is Scott Harrington, mobile +44-7721-335828.

http://www.john-gordon.co.uk

John Gordon of Accrington, Lancashire is a parts trader and car dismantler with many DS420 limousine parts available. Note the Limousine category entry in their on-line Catalogue. Mail orders/credit card payment accepted.

http://www.limousines.co.uk

Wilcox Limousines in Chalfont St.Peter, Bucks. (West of London, just outside the M25), England, is one of the largest traders of limousines and hearses. Wilcox has a large stock of DS420 parts.

http://www.zenithclassics.co.uk

Zenith Classics is a trader. They have the largest stock of DS420 limos and hearses for sale. Based in Blackrod near Bolton, Lancs.

Crowndeed

http://www.crowndeed.co.uk

Crowndeed, based in Heathfield, East Sussex, is another trader of used limousines and hearses.

http://www.woodall-nicholson.co.uk

Woodall-Nicholson was the largest builder of hearse bodies on DS420 chassis.

http://www.jagweb.com/jagworld/xk-engine/

In 1997, the Jaguar World magazine published a series of 6 articles on the XK engine, and its design evolution from 1948 to 1986. The author was Roger Bywater, former power engineer at Jaguar, and intimately familiar with the XK. Very interesting!

http://www.vse-engines.com

VSE - Vintage Sports Engines, based in Llandrindod Wells, Wales, UK, is a specialist in the revision of Jaguar XK-engines.

The book Jaguar XK Engine gives a detailed overview of such a revision operation, conducted at VSE.

http://www.imcdb.org

The Internet Movie Cars Database identifies cars as used in movies, and classifies them according to their use: from background vehicle to the main character's car or even "used in a car chase". The link puts you through to the Daimlers pages of the site, where quite a lot of DS420s are shown.

The link brings you to the first page of a series of nine; the DS420 images start on the second page.

http://www.iol.ie/~lol/The daimlers.htm

The DS420 is very popular in the wedding car hire business. Many hire companies show their DS420s on their web site, and if you search for "DS420" with a websearch engine, most references that show up are from this type of companies (interspersed with university courses on Distributed Systems (computer science), or descriptions of technical equipment with DS420 in their part number).

New Ireland Limousines of Dublin, Ireland has the above mentioned web site (and seven (!!) DS420 limousines). I show them here as a sample of this category of hire companies, but a list of approximately 200 companies from all over the world is on another page of my site. The exceptionally beautiful pictures on the site of New Ireland Limousines really deserve a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_DS420

The well known Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia has a load of information on "Daimler", including a page specific to the DS420. Clicking on the link will bring you to that page. As an extra, you'll find a variety of links to related topics, such as "Daimler Motor Company" and "Vanden Plas".

The original author (unknown to me) obviously is not a novice on Daimler, but he certainly is not a DS420 specialist.

Somebody (not me, honestly) has added a link to this DS420 site on the Wikipedia page. The log of my web server shows that several people each day use that link to come from there to here.