SS Jaguar 1½-litre

The SS Jaguar 1½-litre was the smaller, similar-looking companion to the 2½-litre four-door sports saloon that SS Cars launched in 1935 under the new SS Jaguar name. It used a four-cylinder 1½-litre side-valve engine, where the 2½-litre had a six-cylinder overhead-valve unit. For 1938 the car used the same body shell as the six-cylinder cars on a shorter chassis, with a new, larger 1776 cc overhead-valve engine. The range was built from 1935 to 1940 as four-door sports saloons and two-door drophead coupes, and after the war the model returned as the plain Jaguar 1½-litre from 1946 to 1949 once the company had been renamed Jaguar Cars.