[tony sayer]

In article .com, Bret
Ludwig scribeth thus
Mechanically the Jaguar, Rolls and Aston were good, but they used the
Lucas garbage electrics.

Joe Lucas!.. I was once rather worried to hear their junk was used in
aircraft;!..

Aston was David Brown and had a good
transmission: Jaguar used a US Borg Warner slushbox (mediocre) or the
horrid Moss POS manual. Rollers had US GM transmissions, the best.

If only Jaguar had used a better transmission, better rustproofing,
and better electrics. Actually what would have been even more useful
is had they offered the Gardner 4LK engine as an alternative as Mr.
Gardner tried to tell them.

The Jaguar engine is stout but heavy. With three Webers and an
American distributor or a Scintilla Vertex mag they are pretty
reliable.


Wot about the dreaded "Tin Worm" that used to infest British cars for
too long!...
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Tony Sayer