Jaguar E-Type Parts

Three British parts firms, in alphabetical order:

• David Manners, of Oldbury in the West Midlands, was "established in the 1970s", the firm says, by David Manners, who began selling parts from his home garage; Kate Manners joined in 1995 and has run it since 2011. It makes, among much else, fuel-tank sender units for the E-Type.

• Martin Robey, of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, says it has been "Manufacturing Parts In The United Kingdom Using Original Press Tooling and Traditional Hand Techniques Since 1978"; its range for the E-Type runs to body panels, seat frames, fuel tanks and manifolds.

• SNG Barratt is in Bridgnorth, Shropshire; no source read gives its history.

Jaguar supports the car too: its parts service supplies E-Type parts up to and including replacement engine blocks, Goodwood's insurance guide notes, and the factory's records can confirm a car's build date, colour and options. For the original part numbers, the Jaguar Clubs of North America's judges' guide cites Jaguar's own spare-parts catalogues of the 1960s, J.30 for the 3.8 and J.38 for the 4.2 2+2.⁠source 3​source 4​source 5​source 2​source 6

The Jaguar E-type Club, in Britain, is the club for this one car, and says so: "we are the only club to focus 100% on E-types". Its co-founder, the historian Philip Porter, tells how it began:

It publishes a monthly magazine, The E-type, has members in more than 50 countries by its own account, and keeps a technical library and videos for its members, with discounts at specialists. Its patrons are Richard Hammond and Ian Callum.

The Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club, founded in 1984 and based at Filton, near Bristol, covers every Jaguar, and calls itself "the largest Jaguar club in the world". It gives technical advice, runs forums for each model, and offers members pre-purchase inspections by its own inspectors, with a plain piece of advice: "We recommend you join us BEFORE you buy a car, so that we can help you avoid pitfalls." The Jaguar Drivers' Club says "There is a Register for every model of car", the E-Type among them.

In North America the Jaguar Clubs of North America gather the American and Canadian clubs. Their concours judges work from a detailed guide to the Series 1 E-Type, which reproduces Jaguar's own bulletins, memos and colour charts, and their Technical & Originality Library holds owners' articles on the car. The XKEdata register, online since January 2002, lists E-Types by car number with their owners' photographs and histories; it held more than 25,000 cars on 15 October 2026, and the chassis numbers page quotes its own warning on how far to trust it.

Clubs for Jaguars, and a few for the E-Type alone, exist in many countries. One club with the E-Type in its name is for a different car: the Challenger E Type Owners Club serves owners of the Challenger, a replica, which the replicas page describes.⁠source 7​source 8​source 9​source 10​source 11​source 12​source 13​source 14​source 15

For a particular car, the source is the Jaguar Heritage Trust, which holds Jaguar's production records. Its Heritage Certificate gives a car's original colour, trim, build and dispatch dates and destination, and its paint-code service the original paint. What a certificate shows and what it cannot prove are on the chassis numbers page, and the buyers guide says how to use one.⁠source 16​source 17

E-Types can be hired, for a wedding, a tour or an event, and short drives in one are sold as experiences.