Jaguar cars began in 1922, and Blackpool in Lancashire seemed an unpromising launch platform for a car that became as aspirational as it did. In the years that followed the end of World War 1, Sir William Lyons, then known as Bill, appeared to be a young motorcycle sidecar manufacturer with delusions of grandeur. He [...]
Born in 1901 in Blackpool, England Bill Lyons was a motorcycle lover from an early age. By the time he was 18, he owned his own rig – an “oilbath Sunbeam” but he coveted Harley Davidson’s and Borough Superiors (the Cadillac of British cycles). Lyons had an artistic flair coupled with an eye for design. [...]