UK Magazine - Jaguar World (March 2023)

The March 2023 edition of Jaguar World includes the following feature stories:

◊ Police XJ-S: We go on patrol in the car Jaguar once hoped the nation’s police forces would adopt for high-speed pursuit work.

◊ F-Type 400 Sport: This short-lived special edition used the equally short-lived supercharged V6 and is an intriguing alternative to the V8.

◊ 55 Years of S2 E-Type: For so long in second place behind the original, does the S2 make for a more usable option today?

◊ Uprated Mk 1: The combination of Mk1 bodyshell and 3.8-litre XK wasn’t offered from the factory but as we discover, it makes for an entertaining drive.

◊ Modernised Mk IX: A handful of carefully chosen updates makes this stately Fifties saloon easy to live with in modern traffic.

◊ History: Jaguar Estates: Tracing the development of loadlugging Jaguars from curious Moggy-bodied XK150 to XJ40 concepts, the X-Type and Sportbrake.

◊ Buying X-Type: Will this very capable sports saloon ever be any more affordable? Here’s what you need to know.

◊ Workshop - XF Locks: Replacing the locking motors on the X250.

◊ Workshop E-type Brakes: Tackling the common problems.

◊ Q & A: Ceramic brakes, LED’s and S-Type stalling.

◊ From the Archives (See below) .

From the Archives

Snapshots from 100 years of Jaguar. This month’s dip into the archives discovers a case of quite literally reinventing the wheel as a Jaguar XJ6 is used to demonstrate a prototype of the Avon Safety Wheel. The Avon design was an attempt to prevent the tendency of the tyre to come off the rim during a blowout, something which the firm attributed to the deep well in road wheels of the time which had largely been designed to accommodate cross-ply tyres with inner tubes and which allowed a deflated tyre sufficient movement to wriggle free of the bead. The Safety Wheel employed a much shallower well inside the wheel, providing only a narrow groove to allow tyre fitting and removal which was then covered by a metal band after the tyre was mounted. As we can see from the photo, the idea worked well and eventually did enter production, but was never popular with tyre fitters since the locking band proved fiddly to fit. As wheel designs changed, other tyre safety concepts became more popular, notably the Dunlop Denovo run-flat rim and the Michelin T RX tyres with their super stiff sidewalls. For period promotional footage of the Avon Safety Wheel, head to https://youtu.be/90vi19TtNJo.