This car took part in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.
It's Humphrey Avon's 3,442cc straight-6 1953 (according to the programme of the event) Jaguar C-type. The registration number MDU 212 suggests that it's chassis #XKC005, the car with which Stirling Moss and Peter Whitehead won the Reims 12 Hour race in 1953 - the first race to be won by a car fitted with disc brakes. The problem is that XKC005 is a 1952 car, and all the photographs, bar one, that I've seen of that car show it to be a light green colour. It's also had other registration numbers during its lifetime, including AWW 3 and FST 777, so MDU 212 could have been passed to another C-type.
According to the website: https://www.racingsportscars.com/chassis/archive/XKC%20012.html the car that one the 1953 Reims 12 hr race was XKC 012 driven by Stirling Moss
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