1935 SS 2

I photographed this car at the Northern Classic Car Show at the G-Mex exhibition centre in Manchester in August 1990 and the only note I made about it at the time was that it was an SS 2.

William Lyons' Swallow Coachbuilding Company first started making the SS 1 and SS 2 cars in 1932, the name of the company being changed to SS Cars Ltd in 1934, and again to SS Jaguar in late 1935 -  the 'SS' being dropped in 1945 for obvious reasons. The SS 2 was produced until 1940, first with a  4-cylinder inline 1,006cc engine, changed after 1934 to 1,343cc or 1,608cc. The DVLA record shows that AAR 451 was last taxed in 1990 and has a 1,479cc engine.

SS Jaguar 100

This car competed in the Brooklands & Goddard Trophy Race at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's Martin Redmond's 1935/38 SS Jaguar 100, driven in the race by Gordon Riseley. 198 examples of the SS100 were produced with a 2½ litre engine and 116 with a 3½ litre unit, and according to the programme of the event this car was one of the 3½ litre models. Originally founded as SS Cars Ltd, the 'Jaguar' was added with the introduction of the 100 model. In 1945 the 'SS' was dropped because of the obvious Nazi connotations.

SS2 Swallow

On the Jaguar Drivers' Club stand at the Northern Classic Car Show at the Belle Vue Exhibition Halls in September 1986 was this 1933 SS2 Swallow.

Swallow Coachbuilding Ltd was founded by William Lyons in 1922 and he founded SS Cars Ltd in 1933, the companies being combined in 1934. After 1945 the company changed its name to Jaguar Cars Ltd. You can read here what Wikipedia says about SS Cars Ltd.