The Happy Worker
Here at AutoWires we appreciate history and firmly believe that they don’t build things like the used to anymore. We also come across a lot of historical documents when going through our extensive archives, and every now and again we discover a pearler, like this one from 1962. This is one of those occasions, we hope you will enjoy this as much as we did.
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THE JAGUAR E-TYPE, A CLASSIC MOTOR CAR
It was March, of 1961 that the E-Type made its first public showing at the GenevaMotor Show. The impact on the Motoring Press was about the same as that in October 1948 when the XK 120 was first shown. The E-Types basic premise was much closer to that of the XK 120, a fast, sleek sports car for two people. To achieve this, it lost some of the roominess of the preceding XK 150, and...
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LUCAS – Lord of Light … or Prince of Darkness
Lucas In The Beginning The manufacture of Lamps by Lucas began in 1875 when a Birmingham (UK) merchant, Joseph Lucas. produced the Tom Bowling marine lamp Because the lamp could be serviced at sea navigation safety was revolutionized. Joseph Lucas then increased his range of lamps with hand lamps stable lamps and lanterns In 1880 Lucas patented a cycle lamp aiding safe touring on the increasingly popular bicycle This K1ng -of-the-Roadlamp sold world-wide for the...
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Mighty is the way of the Jaguar XJ-S
Clever men did craft the XJ-S at the dawn of time, but they did pass on, and before their schemes bore fruit, a dark age did fall upon the land. No longer did the Arab Kings give freely of their oil, their money lenders fell out and did draw tight shut their purses. In the mighty forges of Browns Lane sad times had fallen. The Men of Vision were caste out into the darkness, and...
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