DS420 Owners meeting in Gaydon, May 14, 2023

On May 14, 2023, a gathering for DS420 owners was held in Gaydon, the home of the British Motor Museum and of the Jaguar Collections Building. The meeting was announced in the DS420 Owners Facebook Group. Giles Usher and Ray Clayton were the driving powers behind the organisation. 12 cars showed up. This may not seem very much, but in my (hjt-webmaster) 25 years of DS420 hobbying I had never seen so many DS420s together.

Several very special cars were present at this meeting; the captions of the various photos will refer to them.

All 12 cars listed from left to right:

• A12WFO, Silverwhite, 1986, owned by Big Day Wedding Cars in Blackwood, Caerphilly.
• J134LLD, Black, 1991, owned by Ray Clayton.
• The last car owned by The Queen Mother, and now in the collection of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust. Click here for more photos of that car.
• E103DEO, Black over purple, 1987, owned by Giles Usher.
• DR-06-17 (NL), Black, 1971, owned by Hendrik-Jan Thomassen (webmaster of this website).
• F627TLX, Black over white, 1988, owned by Adrian Whittemore.
• 1CUJ, Black, owned by Funeral Directors L. Tranter and Son, Telford.
• 1LTS, Black, 1990, owned by Funeral Directors L. Tranter and Son, Telford.
• LTS1, Black hearse, 1992/1993, owned by Funeral Directors L. Tranter and Son, Telford.
• The Alexander Patrick car. Dark green. Click here for the separate photo gallery of that car. Owned by Funeral Directors L. Tranter and Son, Telford.
• The 1977 Earls Court Motorfair show car. Two-tone green. Click here for the separate photo gallery of that car. Owned by David Taylor, Allerston Taylor - Regency Carriages, Westcott.
• WPO362T, 1978, Black over Silver, Owned by Andrew Taylor, Allerston Taylor - Regency Carriages, Westcott.

The Driving Member magazine of the Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club published an article that I (hjt-webmaster) wrote about the event. See it here.

Title photo and photos 1, 15, 23, 25 by Ray Clayton, 40-60 by Andrew Taylor, 61 by Mark Kershaw. Other photos: hjt-webmaster.

1						5
6						10
11						15
16						20
21						25
26						30
31						35
36						40
41						45
46						50
51						55
56						60
61						61

Back to the list of albums or to the indexpage