Hi all!

Getting it back to the UK is one option (and to be honest my favourite; I would love to see her back in the UK), but I seem to get little or no response from the relevant local authorities in Sweden. The only responses I got after the Flypast article were surprisingly negative. One group of individuals informed me that I could take the wreck, preserve it then bring it back to Sweden, but they weren’t willing to help.

The other option was getting it indoors somewhere in Sweden (preservation of the remains is the issue I care about, not where it is kept). It’s a shame thhat the people concerned don’t see it that way.

I have been giving serious thought to leaving this project alone, certainly I am not the first person to get this far with this aircraft. However, I cannot help but think that local government officials aren’t in office for ever and I have the time to wait. So I haven’t given up yet.

Unfortunately Easy Elsie’s site is not mine, and the website owner hasn’t answered my e-mails in a while…. so there’s nothing I can do there.

Cheers for the heads up.

Regards,
Richard

Moggy, why was your E-type pants? If you’d had a 3.8 with the Moss box and early braking system, maybe but a 4.2? They were supposed to be the better of the two.

I’ve only had a play with a V12 E-type, never a six cylinder car so this intrigues me…

Regards,
Richard

1. Coventry
2. XK180
3. One working one built, now with the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust. No production…
4. British Racing Green
5. Broadspeed XJ12C
6. Five. They won everything going for about that long, but not with the XJ12C, with the TWR XJS
7. Depends how far you go… three possibles are…
a. Swallow Seven when they were still called Swallow and in Blackpool
b. S.S.90 Built buy Jaguar but never badged as one
c. XK120 Built by Jaguar, badged as a Jaguar.

Regards,
Rich

Last time I visited it the canopy was on and most of the glass intact. Was a while ago now. I managed to get in the cockpit through the one panel that was missing in the top.

The wings are held on by huge steel plates, you can see one in the bottom right of the second pic. They’re already going rusty, and as soon as they let go, it’s curtains for that particular Lightning as it will be too much of a danger.

Regards
Richard W

I always thought they were built at the Jaguar factory in Castle Bromwich? Certainly Jaguars records show they built an awful lot of aircraft related stuff, not just Spits.

There’s a bloke building a Meteor (ground bound Merlin) engined Rover SD1 in Practical Performance Car magazine.

Thanks Daz!