Humblest of apologies Doug, twas in indeed Peel's of Kingston Should I send my posts through miggle management in future ?
The article I linked in #92 also says Peel's of Kensington. Maybe it is a mental quirk in classic car brains that makes down-market Kingston turn into up-market Kensington!
The Robert Peel pub is now gone and there is no sign of a Peel Coachworks, although there are still automotive business there. Here is some history.
Edit: Although it says that Peel's address was 50 High St KoT, that is in fact Picton House, a listed building. High Street is a long way from the Sir Robert Peel pub but maybe Picton House was the registered address and the actual metal bashing took place at Cambridge Road.
Here's the photo from that link of the mentioned Peel XK150 shooting brake conversion, so much better than the XK120 earlier in the thread.
I know of two XK shooting brakes / estates both on XK150's however, one a professionalish looking job by Peels of Kensington that looks like a Farina A40 Countryman graft and t'other the Minor 1000 graft known as Foxbat by a Mr Stevens of Swindon, circa mid seventies, seen above.
Just for clarity the Foxbat shooting brake, by Mr Stevens of Swindon, in the earlier thread is also XK150 based
Donald Stewart was a duck farmer from Newmarket, Ontario. He figured in the history of Jaguar in Ontario in the fifties, owning and racing in turn:
— a dark-coloured SS100, registration 3879Y, #14 at Rattlesnake Point, 1 May 1954
— a cream-coloured XK120, red wire-wheels, registration A 71554 (1954), raced Rattlesnake 1955, 2nd; 1956 2nd
— a dark-coloured XK-SS, (winner of the Rattlesnake Point Hill Climb, 46.74 sec, 7 June 1958. Also raced at Harewood Acres, Green Acres). Car traded to Ray Carter, car dealer of Hamilton, ON, for a new Jaguar XK150S (per Tom Johnston). XK-SS then raced by Ray Carter/Craig Hill, later by Nat Adams.
*Don Bury, Apt.1, 350 Northcliffe Blvd. Toronto 10, owned a Jaguar SS1, 15th at Rattlesnake Point, 8 August 1952, 1.075 mins.
Not sure if I've seen this thread before — hard to know where to start! Here goes:
B.E.M.C. Edenvale, Ontario, 3 Sept 1950
#12 white Jaguar SS-100 3½-litre, English reg DWU 834 (Charlie Davison of Birmingham, Michigan)
#18 silver Jaguar XK120 roadster
#25 red Jaguar XK120 roadster (James L. Cooke?)
B.E.M.C. Edenvale, Ontario, 2 August 1952
#10 J. C. Mueller, S.C.C.A., Jaguar 3442, 12th in feature
#17 Gisbert von Boch, Ecurie Tortue, Jaguar 3442, 7th
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Update on B.E.M.C. Edenvale, Ontario, 3 Sept 1950
#18 silver Jaguar XK120 roadster, with full windscreen, now known to have been driven by James L. Cooke. The colour derives from a film, digitised by myself, many decades after it was shot — is the colour washed out? James L. Cooke is known to have owned a light blue XK120. "I remember my Dad saying he ordered the car in the light blue colour as a tribute to his younger brother, lost during RCAF Service over Germany during WW2." — Jim Cooke.
"I also have a trophy from Watkins Glen - 1950." A photograph at the Glen shows #52 on the side of a light blue roadster with full windscreen?
Is it at 3.00 and 7.27 here? Driver Michael Abendroth?
(Note Jeffries' entrant for 1955: James L. Cooke.)
#25 red Jaguar XK120 roadster, with full windscreen, 3.9.1950, now known to have been driven by B. W. Richardson, Toronto.
Douglas Cramb headed the car committee of B.E.M.C., which split off to form the Sports Car Club (Toronto). This was aimed at securing international recognition via the founding of C.A.S.C. in 1951. Subsequently Cramb became the President of the S.C.C. (Toronto).
Re previous post Jim Cooke says he thinks Mel Doyle was a Sales Manager for his father James L. Cooke — on current evidence this is the only race Doyle ever ran? (This also makes him a Canadian.)
There were three XK120s in the Sebring race: the class-winning #23 grey car of John Fitch/Colby Whitmore, 18th overall; #33 McIntosh/Doyle, entrant James Lorenzo Cooke, Toronto, 22nd overall; #35 roadster with full windscreen, of Tom Braun/Charles Hassan, entrant Charles Dabney Thompson, Cincinnati, Ohio, DNF, L54, brakes. Tom Braun does not turn up elsewhere either?
"Brake troubles came, too, notably to the XK120s of stylist John Fitch and of Doyle and McIntosh from Toronto."
Autocar, 12 January 1951, Pages 37-38.
"All the XK120s had brake trouble" Motor Sport, March 1951, Page 111
Donald Stewart was a duck farmer from Newmarket, Ontario. He figured in the history of Jaguar in Ontario in the fifties, owning and racing in turn:
— a dark-coloured SS100, registration 3879Y, #14 at Rattlesnake Point, 1 May 1954
— a cream-coloured XK120, red wire-wheels, registration A 71554 (1954), raced Rattlesnake 1955, 2nd; 1956 2nd
— a dark-coloured XK-SS, (winner of the Rattlesnake Point Hill Climb, 46.74 sec, 7 June 1958. Also raced at Harewood Acres, Green Acres). Car traded to Ray Carter, car dealer of Hamilton, ON, for a new Jaguar XK150S (per Tom Johnston). XK-SS then raced by Ray Carter/Craig Hill, later by Nat Adams.
*Don Bury, Apt.1, 350 Northcliffe Blvd. Toronto 10, owned a Jaguar SS1, 15th at Rattlesnake Point, 8 August 1952, 1.075 mins.
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The Jaguar XK-SS acquired by Donald Stewart from Stan McRobert of Montreal?
Car new to McRobert at St. Eugene, 29 June 1957. Winner in the wet, event 2.
McRobert won the one-hour Indian Summer Trophy Race at Harewood Acres, 28 September 1957.
McRobert winner at St. Eugene, Event 4, Tuppence Cup Races, 10 August 1958.
*Driver Peter Templar of Quebec plays a part in the Jaguar XKSS story.
Jean Guy Pilon, Jaguar XKSS, seen at St. Eugene, 14 June 1959.
Car offered for sale in Canada Track & Traffic, April 1960:
Jaguar XKSS modified to 'D' type by Momo.
Mileage 3100 mostly on roads. Guaranteed
top condition with trailer, spare wheels and
parts. $5,400.00. Jean Guy Pilon, 5343 Espla-
nade, Montreal.
Same advertisement May 1960.
Car not sold, and raced by Jean Guy Pilon at St. Eugene, CRDA Championship Races, 26 June 1960.
Curiouser and curiouser ref Nat Adams:
"Adams, 34, moved to Toronto from Dublin, Ireland,
in 1956 and started racing in 1959. He moved up
from MG's to an XKSS (Stan McRobert's 1957 car)
and thence to a Sadler." CT&T, December 1967, Page 51.
Drove the Jaguar in 1961, entered as an XKSS throughout the season.
Hope you don't mind me bringing this way OT but this may be of a little interest given the Duncan Hamilton / Jaguar connection. Was at a car show in Kilkenny, Ireland and this caught my eye:
was followed by a Mark IV Jaguar and this by a '51 XK 120
(subsequently sold to Jack Walkem) and an XK140. His
present stable consists of a '58 Dodge Hardtop, but this
only tells half the story, as it is used primarily as a tow car
for Jim's main automotive machinery is Western Canada's
only "D" type Jaguar. However, it was during his XK120
era that he made the logical step of having one car for go-
ing to the grocery store in and one car for racing. The
racing car turned out to be a Crosley Special, which was
more special than Crosley and soon became a Mark II.
Both of these specials gave Jim ideas which became in-
corporated in the Mark III ( written up in Sports Cars Illus-
trated last year) and soon to have a Super Porsche engine
exchanged for the present blown Crosley. The "D" was
acquired in 1957 and its only modifications to date, being
the addition of a limited slip differential, air scoops for
the front brakes and anti-sway bar between the rear trail-
ing links.
Pit Pass, Monthly Bulletin of the Sports Car Club of British Columbia, Number 10, September 1958, Page 5
The Jaguar D-Type, XKD558, was purchased new from Plimley Motors in Vancouver in October 1957.
"Jim Rattenbury in his modified D Jaguar, (Jim has installed a Limited Slip differential, a swing rear axle and has lengthened the front by 9 inches)."
Later acquired by Starr Calvert, of Seattle, in the spring of 1961.
For the full story see Sports Car Road Racing in Western Canada, Tom Johnston, Pages 305-306.
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