2025-05-26 18:47:46 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 6/25

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-1974-jaguar-e-type-v12-roadster/

Auction description:

25th Jun, 2025

UTAC Millbrook Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire

1974 Jaguar E-Type V12 Roadster

Entered from The Merlin Collection - Two owners and 19,800 miles

Estimate £80,000 - £100,000

Registration No: SGB 222N

Chassis No: 1S2411

MOT: July 2025

Reputedly 1 of only 2 RHD examples to emerge from Browns Lane in Turquoise with Terracotta leather upholstery

Supplied new to Professor Angell complete with the original order form, book pack, pre-delivery inspection sheet and Passport to Service etc

Sympathetically rejuvenated since joining The Merlin Collection and driving exceptionally well

If ever there was a Series III Roadster to own, this is it!

A unique proposition, chassis 1S2411 is not only one of just two right-hand drive Series III Roadsters to have been reputedly finished in Turquoise with Terracotta leather upholstery but has also covered a warranted 19,800 miles from new. Supplied by Ritchie’s Ltd of Glasgow and first registered as ‘SGB 222N’ on September 5th 1974, the Jaguar is accompanied by its original order form (in the amount of £3,966.14), green logbook, Pre-Delivery Inspection Sheet and Passport to Service. Other early paperwork on file includes a letter from the factory with regards to a workshop repair manual supplement and a certificate issued by the Industrial Bank of Scotland to confirm that they no longer had a financial interest in the car. Retained by its first owner, Professor W.R. Angell for four decades, mollycoddled and self-maintained. Professionally recommissioned to MOT standard by Stewart Roden Motors of Winchburgh in December 2013 at a cost of £4,700.22, ‘SGB 222N’ entered the current (second) ownership the following month.

Part of The Merlin Collection since 2014, chassis 1S2411 is quite simply the best driving Series III Roadster that the consignor, Damian Jones, has encountered in almost thirty years. Matching numbers throughout and pleasingly retaining the vast majority of its factory paintwork not to mention its original interior upholstery and Black vinyl roof, the Jaguar has been gone through stem to stern. The fuel, ignition, coolant and brake systems have all been fettled as have the steering and suspension. Indeed, the seller considers ‘SGB 222N’ to the best driving car in his collection which includes far newer and more rarified machinery. It is no exaggeration to say that the two-seater has been (a) looked after to aircraft standards and (b) significantly improved over the course of the 1,000 miles that the vendor has added to its odometer. For those who prize originality but do not wish to compromise on condition we humbly submit that ‘SGB 222N’ most likely answers the brief like no other E-Type out there. Highly recommended.