HISTORY
Jaguar® is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover®, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England, owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008.
Jaguar's® business was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, originally making motorcycle sidecars before developing bodies for passenger cars. Under the ownership of S. S. Cars Limited the business extended to complete cars made in association with Standard Motor Co many bearing Jaguar® as a model name. The company's name was changed from S. S. Cars to Jaguar® Cars in 1945. A merger with the British Motor Corporation followed in 1966, the resulting enlarged company now being renamed as British Motor Holdings (BMH), which in 1968 merged with Leyland Motor Corporation and became British Leyland, itself to be nationalised in 1975.
Jaguar® was de-merged from British Leyland and was listed on the London
Stock Exchange in 1984, becoming a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Ford in 1990. Jaguar® has, in recent years, manufactured cars for the British Prime Minister, the most recent delivery being an XJ in May 2010. The company also holds royal warrants from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.
Jaguar® cars today are designed in Jaguar Land Rover's® engineering centres at the Whitley plant in Coventry and at their Gaydon site in Warwickshire, and are assembled in their plants at Castle Bromwich and Solihull.
In September 2013 Jaguar Land Rover® announced plans to open a 100 million GBP (160 million USD) research and development centre in the University of Warwick, Coventry to create a new generation of vehicle technologies. The carmaker said around 1,000 academics and engineers would work there and that construction would start in 2014.
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We are a 501c3 public charity. Donations are tax deductible to the donor as allowable by law. If you would like to talk to our estate planning specialist. Monetary donations can be directed to our scholarship fund if desired by the donor.
We are planning to endow a scholarship for the purpose of helping talented men and women who are taking restoration arts as a curriculum. More specifically for those students with an interest in a career working with Jaguar® or other British make cars. When making a donation, you can designate that the funds are used for this purpose
As requested by the donor, we can keep your donation as part of our permanent collection to be displayed in our future permanent facility, or with your permission, we will monetize your donation with funds used as needed to support various foundation activities
Become a corporate or group patron of the foundation. As a business, or car club, you could help the work of the foundation with a donation. Our affiliate club program donation starts at $250.00 with a $100.00 per year renewal. Current clubs participating in the affiliate club program include. The Jaguar® Club of Florida, and the Suncoast Jaguar® Club.
Above: Cecil Myers with former Coventry Foundation President, current Board Chairman, Gary Kincel.
Beside: Cecil Myers having his first look at the signed, recently published John Egan book that he received for his donation to the foundation. The book was donated to the foundation by JJ editor Peter Crespin after Peter acquired the book, and the signatures of key people at Jaguar® during the Egan era.
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