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Norman Dewis

NORMAN DEWIS OF JAGUAR - DEVELOPING THE LEGEND Published in November of 2006, it's priced at £59.95 (normal binding - pre-production price, normal price £75.00). There is also a signed Limited Edition Special Leather Binding in a slipcase for £150. An online Order Form is available NOW. ORDER YOUR COPY - Visit Paul Skilleter HERE NOW! ‘Completing over a million test miles at 100mph-plus average .... Norman survived high-speed crashes and rollovers in the days before seat-belts – and without ever breaking a single bone’ The long-awaited biography of renowned Jaguar test development engineer and works team driver Norman Dewis has now passed through the final stages and was published in November 2006, It is written in conjunction with Norman by Paul Skilleter, also drawing on Norman's extensive archives. Paul Skilleter says: This is a story both of personal achievement and of a heroic period in Jaguar’s history. In a career spanning 33 years at Jaguar, Norman Dewis tested and developed a remarkable series of cars including: ■ C-type ■ D-type ■ XK 140/150 ■ 2.4/3.4 and Mk 2 saloons ■ Mk VII/Mk VIIM ■ E-type ■ XJ13 ■ XJ/XJ-S ■ XJ40 Plus, he rode with Stirling Moss in a C-type in the 1952 Mille Miglia, drove a 190mph works D-type in the highly dramatic 1955 Le Mans, raced in the Goodwood 9 Hours, and set an amazing 173mph production car record at Jabbeke in Belgium with an XK 120. Completing over a million test miles at 100mph-plus average, Norman also played a crucial role developing the revolutionary Dunlop disc brake, and survived high-speed crashes and rollovers in the days before seat-belts – and without ever breaking a single bone. This book is automatically also a development history of Jaguar, with a wealth of new technical details of how key models were evolved. Filled with personal insights and fascinating technical detail, this book tells the unique story of a great Jaguar character and the equally great cars he worked with. Norman did not, of course, work in isolation and his recollections bring to life the unique team which made Jaguar great – company founder Sir William Lyons, engineering director Bill Heynes, development engineer Bob Knight, aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer, and service department and race team manager Lofty England. These and many more become real people as Norman tells of his every-day involvement with them. If anyone was at the heart of Jaguar during perhaps its most remarkable decades of achievement, it was Norman Dewis. Read this book and you will absorb the authentic flavour of Jaguar in Coventry and fully appreciate the achievements of a remarkable man. Paul Skilleter 2006 If you are interested in purchasing this book, please use the Order Form on Paul Skilleter's site.. SOME EXAMPLE THUMBNAIL PAGES Please note that titles are all subject to change LEA FRANCIS AND NORMAN GOES RACING A DISC BRAKE ULTIMATUM – AND THE 1953 LIGHTWEIGHT C-TYPE NORMAN’S LE MANS: WITNESSING DRAMA AND TRAGEDY XK ROAD CARS: NORMAN AND THE XK 120, 140 AND 150 THE 2.4 and 3.4 JAGUARS NORMAN, THE MK X, AND THE BAYONNE ADVENTURE