1937 SS Jaguar 100

This is one of the cars I photographed during a visit to the Doune Motor Museum when on a family holiday in Scotland in August 1996.

It's a 1937 SS Jaguar 100, and a note in the Donington Collection brochure says this about the car:

'The foundation on which the Jaguar sports car tradition was based in the post-war years was the pre-war SS 100 range of cars built by William Lyons, later Sir William Lyons who ran a company called Swallow Coachbuilding. A striking production of the late thirties was the SS 100 which had some competition successes just before the war. This particular car was bought by Lord Moray in the early 1960s when he decided to take up competitive motoring, and in particular hill climbs. At present, it still has the post-war Jaguar XK140 engine that was installed some years ago, but an original SS engine has been obtained to bring the car back to its original specification. It was one of the best looking English sports cars of its time.'

The museum closed in November 1998.

SS Jaguar 100

During the Jaguar Drivers' Club's Cheshire Cats' Trophy Meeting at Oulton Park in April 1987 there was a parade of Jaguar cars round the circuit, and this is one of those taking part.

It's a 1938 SS Jaguar 100, one of 118 cars built from 1938 to 1941 with the 3,485cc straight-6 engine. The earlier version of the car had a 2,663cc engine and 191 examples were built between 1935 and 1939. That car was the first of the SS cars to bear the Jaguar name.

SS Jaguar 100

I photographed this car at the Northern Classic Car Show at G-Mex, Manchester in August 1991.

It's a 1938 SS Jaguar 100, with a 2½ litre straight-6 engine developed from the Standard side valve unit by giving it a new cylinder head and converting it to an overhead valve 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.