2017-01-21 18:15:01 | Rob Reilly writes:

Listed in the 2007 Classic Jaguar Association SS100 Register

2021-08-18 03:05:30 | Anonymous writes:

History - 18044 Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, GERMANY

18044 was the first of only three S.S.100’s delivered new to Australia. The 1936 21/2 litre car was registered in Adelaide by Keith Taylor who worked at the London Stock Exchange and on Wall Street. Keith had not sighted the car before he arrived back in Adelaide. 

In 1938 Keith hill-climbed the S.S.100 at Lobethal and raced it at Sellicks Beach. It is believed that 18044 was the first S.S.100 ever raced in Australia.

The car was sold to another S.A. Sporting Car club member, Graham Fowler-Brownsworth, (an old Adelaide family) whose father was a WW1 Army Colonel, and mother heir to the huge Birks department store that was later sold to David Jones. 

After racing at Lobethal and other venues the car turned up in Sydney in 1943, where it passed through several hands and then to a Gordon Nicol in 1947, who painted it black and white. 

It continued to be used in competition, passed hands again to a G. Brakwell in 1952 and by December 1956 it was in Melbourne in the possession of Don Brown where it sat derelict for a number of years. 

In 1972 Noel Robson bought and restored the car and sold it at auction in 1980 for $74,000. Over the next few years, it moved between Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, ACT and Queensland. 

In 1998 it competed in its last race in Australia in the Targa Tasmania and left our shores in 2001 going to Rotterdam where it was restored (once again). 

Since 2006, the vehicle has been in the hands of a German collector. In 2017, 18044 won the Concours at Classic Days Schloss Dyck.

As at August 2021 - 18044 is now painted Black with olive-green interior and is for sale. POA. (Movendi. Contact person: Bernhard Kerkloh Harffstraße 110 Düsseldorf, Germany, 40591)