1955 Jaguar D-Type

This is a photograph that I took just outside the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1984.

It’s a 1955 Jaguar D-Type and the registration number 774 RW seems to indicate that it is  XKD505, the car with which Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb won the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hour Race.

1955 Jaguar D-Type

This is a photograph I took just outside the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1986.

I don't know what it was doing there, but it's a 1955 Jaguar D-Type with a registration number ending in '....4 RW' and the only D-Type which matches that is XKD505 (774 RW). It doesn't appear to be a replica, so it seems to be the car with which Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb won the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hour Race.

Three Jaguars

This was a display by the Historic Sports Car Club at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

Only one prototype Jaguar XJ13 was ever built and the first car here is a replica constructed by Proteus Cars. The second car is a 1952 Jaguar C-type, chassis number XKC004, and the third car is a 1955 Jaguar D-type long nose. Only 6 of these cars were built and the one in this photograph bears the registration number and race number of the 1955 Le Mans winning car. It isn't necessarily that car though, and could even be another Proteus replica.