Dimensioned drawing search

[265bhp]

I have looked in the workshop manual, Haynes manual, the Knowledge section and Phillip Porters Definitive book for a dimensioned view of the car so I can look into building a jig for the forthcoming restoration of the shell
Does such a think exist..?..the dimensioned drawing in the original sales brochures is good for o/a dimensions but not detailed dimensions of the underbody area

Regards
Jonathan

[steve3.8]

Jonathan,

It's all in the green works manual ,

[265bhp]

Excellent, many thanks Steve...odd though..perhaps my Green Manual isn't original...?...my page N26 has a picture of the exhaust system and there is no page 27 and 28...is yours a 4.2 book...?...
Regards
Jonathan

[Jeremy]

Martin Robey did say to me that Jaguar actually didn't produce any drawings for a number of the E type body parts because it wasn't intended for volume production. He was trying to refurb some of the original worn press tools he bought from Jag but could get no definitive reference data in some cases.

How they put the stuff into production with no drawings is beyond me.

[christopher storey]

How they put the stuff into production with no drawings is beyond me.

AFAIK Malcolm Sayer did not actually make drawings of his design . The whole thing was done as a series of coordinates which were given to pattern makers to make up an original buck . Thus the "drawings " were purely mathematical and the dimensions were taken from the pressed article . It sounds extraordinary but it obviously worked !

[steve3.8]

Excellent, many thanks Steve...odd though..perhaps my Green Manual isn't original...?...my page N26 has a picture of the exhaust system and there is no page 27 and 28...is yours a 4.2 book...?...
Regards
Jonathan

Jonathan ,

Glad to be of help, this was took from a 3.8 only manual although i have 2 others with the 4.2 supplement , i don't have a 4.2 only manual [ is that in a black folder ?] . I do have the gold 3.8 j30 and the black 4.2 works parts manuals though .

edit .... the Knowledge section 3.8 manual shows the same as mine

[265bhp]

Thanks Steve
I guess mine isn't an original works manual then...oh well..