{"id":57308,"date":"2022-01-06T11:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/?p=57308"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:44:23","slug":"local-coventry-hero-guy-broad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/local-coventry-hero-guy-broad\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Coventry Hero: Guy Broad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guy Broad is one of the world\u2019s authorities on everything XK. We spent some time with Guy at his Browns Lane showroom and explored how the Jaguar spirit is alive and well at the place of its creation.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guy_Broad.jpg\" alt=\"Guy Broad\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local Hero:If you want to know about anything XK: Guy Broad is your man. Picture: JM DRAKE<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s something in the air around Coventry. It\u2019s to do with productivity. It\u2019s to do with enterprise. It\u2019s to do with a certain kind of pride. There\u2019s something very \u201820th Century\u2019 about that atmosphere &#8211; but something, as the years move on, that feels very contemporary too. It\u2019s the same kind of atmosphere that you\u2019ll find in Detroit. Or Dagenham. Or Stuttgart. There\u2019s a straightforwardness to things. A down-to-earth aspect that comes from having over a hundred years of expertise. It\u2019s the sort of expertise that has applied itself to all sorts of things &#8211; but mostly machines, and mostly cars. You can smell it in the atmosphere. And that is a good feeling. To breathe that proper automotive air.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Browns_Lane_2-1024x792.jpeg\" alt=\"Inside Jaguar's Browns Lane plant\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jaguar Plant in Browns Lane, Coventry produced across six decades every single Jaguar to bear the XK designation. Picture: JAGUAR<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are so many amazing machines that came out of the Browns Lane end of Coventry. The place where we have our dealerships is right here &#8211; and it\u2019s wholly appropriate. This was a garage all the way back to the 1950s, when the Browns Lane plant was built. So in a way, these are a home for the XK Jaguars. We\u2019re proud to be part of the texture of things here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the XKs were built here. They all came out of the Jaguar gates, up there where it used to be just up the road from where we stand right now, and they were all test driven on these very roads. There is an atmosphere in this part of Coventry. It is infused with Jaguar. You would have had huge amounts of people cycling from the village areas to work in the factories, and as many of these houses around here were populated by people who worked in the factories, and the pub up the road. Round the corner was full of Jaguar execs from lunchtime every Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Norman-Dewis.jpeg\" alt=\"Norman Dewis\" width=\"943\" height=\"761\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legendary test engineer Norman Dewis in Belgium, 1953. Picture: JAGUAR<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can imagine cars like the D-types and C-types being test-driven on the roads around here. People would wake up in the morning and there would be every XK, every E-type and every D-type just casually driving around. The whole Le Mans works team would literally drive straight down from Browns Lane, race the 24 Hours, and then drive back, and people would line the streets. Jaguar represented Britain on the world automotive stage, and so Coventry was always at the heart of our automotive identity. It\u2019s unsurprising that people had great pride in being part of Jaguar &#8211; and by extension great pride in being from Coventry.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jaguar_xk120_FHC_1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"A side-on view of a Jaguar XK 120\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hand drawn design of the XK 120 lines owe as much to 30s art deco as post World War 2 Tech. Picture: JAGUAR<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cars that Jaguar built were just so stylish. It might be amazing to some to think that such exotic cars would arise out of an unassuming place like Coventry, but there\u2019s a logic to it. You can trace the styling of the XK 120 to pre-war design, the curves and the sweeping lines. Then, of course, World War 2 came and changed everything. New technologies were everywhere and working their way into civilian manufacturing. This part of the midlands was packed with engineering and manufacturing workshops \u2014 and the sheer pace and intensity of productivity and innovation would have been absolutely peaking toward the middle and late years of the 1940s, because of the war effort and then all that overcapacity when peace broke out. There was such great expertise everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jaguar_xk120_fixed_head_coupe_uk-spec_12.jpeg\" alt=\"An interior view of a beautiful Jaguar.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><em>An interior view of a beautiful Jaguar. Picture: JAGUAR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most visible aspect of that was of course the aerodynamics that made their way into the cars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malcolmsayer.com\/\">Malcolm Sayer<\/a>, who was such a key figure at Jaguar in the post war years, was a guru of understanding how important air flow was in making a car not only beautiful, but quick and efficient. All these amazing curved lines were to do with Sayers\u2019 knowledge of aerodynamics. He also had a wonderful eye drawing them &#8211; the lines just came out of his head, on to a page and then into the steel.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sayer_Model.jpeg\" alt=\"A Sayer model\" width=\"942\" height=\"530\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><em>A Sayer model shows the elegant curves that adorn various Jaguar cars. Picture: JAGUAR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other element was that XK engine. It\u2019s a format that remained relevant and important to Jaguar all the way through to the 80s and beyond. Straight six, simple, strong and powerful. It looks as beautiful as the steel panels that encase it.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jaguar_xk120_fixed_head_coupe_10.jpeg\" alt=\"Inside a Jaguar engine\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><em>Under the bonnet, the iconic straight-six. Picture: JAGUAR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early days of the 1950s Britain was recovering its economy after the war. The car business was all to do with exports, so a huge amount of the early cars left the country. Britain needed the foreign cash. So at first the XK cars were very rare to see outside of this area. There were long waiting lists and you couldn\u2019t just go and get one in a showroom because the drive was everything to do with export. But once the mid-50s started to roll around production was increased and they became much more available to people. It wasn\u2019t in everyone\u2019s reach, but by the late 1950s these cars were the sort of thing people could actually get hold of. My father owned an XK120 as a very young man \u2014 and that is probably where my interest in these cars began.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jaguar_xk120_roadster_uk-spec_12.jpg\" alt=\"A Jaguar XK 120 Roadster from the side\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><em>A Jaguar XK 120 Roadster is a thing of beauty, especially from side-on. Picture: JAGUAR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I have grown up with XK 120s around, and C-types and D-types around here and there, you get a little blas\u00e9 about them. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of them with the same eyes that you had when you first saw them. Their presence, their character &#8211; their sheer beauty can take your breath away. And today, with every new car looking the same and the wholesale move to electric, that hand-made, hand-drawn aesthetic looks all the more breathtaking. When we are out test driving this stuff, it is amazing how many people will pull up beside you and still be amazed and ask you what it is. Quite often they will say it is the most beautiful car they have ever seen. And when it comes down to it \u2013 I have to agree.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2022\/01\/iPace_-5.jpg\" alt=\"Guy Broad at Browns Lane\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Broad is one of the world\u2019s authorities on everything XK. We spent some time with Guy at his Browns Lane showroom and explored how the Jaguar spirit is alive and well at the place of its creation. Local Hero:If you want to know about anything XK: Guy Broad is your man. 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