A 1.5-litre Jaguar Mark IV paused outside the Mansfield Traquair Centre on wedding duty last Saturday, its fluid lines and polished depths breathtaking.
This particular example dates from 1948, and so was one of the last of 10,980 made between 1935 and 1949 (with a break in manufacture during the war years).
In its prime, it would have had a theoretical top speed of 70mph and was reportedly 'sweeter running' than a larger-engined 2.5-litre sibling produced about the same time.
This Jaguar is unlikely to exceed 40mph nowadays, but such constraints are irrelevant:
... there's no cage to him
More than to the visionary his cell:
His stride is wildernesses of freedom:
The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel.
Over the cage floor the horizons come.
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