Jag 3.8 Vitesse

People have been tuning and modifying the Triumph Vitesse for many years. Hot Car magazine May 1969 featured a Vitesse that had a Jaguar 3.8 engine in it.

The car was said to do 130mph and to have 250bhp. It was built by the well known Downton engineering. Based on a shortened Jaguar XK150 chassis.  The Triumph Vitesse body was altered to fit.

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More material about this car featured on Facebook recently.

 

West Central Garage Ltd of Wolverhampton - Triumph Car Dealer 83A

This short post is about West Central Garage Ltd of Wolverhampton.

West Central Garage Ltd Wolverhampton Compliments Slip

West Central Garage Ltd Wolverhampton advert Autocar 18 October 1957

West Central Garage Ltd Wolverhampton dealer address stamp

Gracesguide website is a great source of information and includes these 2 sections.

West Central Garage

of School Street, Wolverhampton.
1953 Car and Light Commercial Vehicle Stockists. Directors: Norman H. Dawkins (Joint Managing). E. G. Dawes, T. L. Millard. (Service)

Thomas Millard (b.1912)

Thomas Millard (1912- ) of West Central Garage
Born Sedgley, 1912.
Apprenticed to Clyno Cars Ltd., Wolverhampton and was later in charge of service Department of local Garage.
1953 Director, West Central Garage Ltd., Wolverhampton. Joined staff of West Central Garage Ltd. as foreman and became service manager in 1946 and joined the Board of Directors in 1950. Married; one son.

Details of Triumph car dealers in Wolverhampton can be found in my blog post about Hewitts Garages Ltd of Wolverhampton.

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If you have any more information or recollections about West Central Garage Ltd such as photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc please let me know. I can be contacted via the comments to this post or on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephen.weblin

Further information and sources

Link to the other articles in this series.

Link to blog post about Hewitts Garages Ltd of Wolverhampton

Link to face book page: Triumph Car Dealers.

Link to my Triumph Car Dealers Flickr group which includes many photos of Standard Triumph garages etc from my collection and many other contributors .

I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html

Picture credits: All 3 images in this post are from my collection.