Saturday morning found me riding the Norton through the leafy the lanes of Warwickshire making the best of the late Autumn sunshine, on my way home i came through the Village of Wappenbury just outside my home town. And because i had a camera in the pocket of my Belstaff i thought it appropriate to show the final resting place of the founder of Jaguar Cars. William Lyons started his Automotive career building Swallow sidecars at a Blackpool factory in 1922. However it wasn't long before Lyons had his sights set on Motor Car production and started manufacturing the Austin Swallow . By 1928 the company had moved to Holbrook Lane in Coventry after outgrowing there original premises in Blackpool . Soon the ever expanding company moved into the famous Browns Lane site an ex " shadow factory " used for important war work.
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