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This web page shows various magazine articles in the English language, that appeared about the DS420 from 1994 to 2012. They are shown in chronological order. Note that there are parallel web pages with articles from 1968-1993 and articles from 2013-present. Also, there are three other pages with non-English language articles 1968-1993, 1994-2012 and 2013-present.
Click on a page to obtain a large, readable view.
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Coachbuilding in London
Robert Vickers (ed.) London's Industrial Archaeology, No. 5, March 1994 In June and August 1979 members of the Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society visited the Vanden Plas works in Kingsbury/N.London (Church Lane 468). This was a few month before the factory closed. 15 Years later, in March 1994 the Society published about these visits in the 5th issue of their Journal "London's Industrial Archaeology". The first half of the article covers the coach building industry in London in general. The second half specifically describes the manufacturing process at Vanden Plas; this part starts to the right of this text block. Several of the installations described appear on photographs throughout this website: e.g. on the Colour & Trim page and on the Production, prices and options page. The article is shown here with kind permission of Mr. Vickers and of the Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society www.glias.org.uk |
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Stretching Out
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. |
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DS420 an appreciation
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Doing a Stretch
The vinyl roof on car BMC856H,
In July 2003 the Driving Member magazine
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DS420 An Appreciation
George Zdanko published this article in his semi-regular "appreciation" column
Note that the previous article on this page contains a photo of George's car VKM209H, in colour. |
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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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A Lucky Survivor
George Zdanko describes how car BYK330H came into his possession,
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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 has 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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A Daimler Excursion
George Zdanko Jaguar Enthusiast, May 2011
Author George Zdanko describes a trip to the continent
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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...
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Scrapbook. This month: Royal Barge
Paul Skilleter Jaguar World Monthly, August 2012 |
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