Nov 2010 e u g o l a t a c & r e t t e Paul Skilleter enjoying Nigel Webb’s Mike Hawthorn Jaguar Mk1 recreation l PaulSkilleterBooks/PJPublishingLtd s 38,FarmLaneSouth BartononSea NEWMILTON w Hampshire Tel:01425612669 e e-mail:
[email protected] Web:www.PaulSkilleterBooks.Co.Uk n November2010 2 ListerJaguarBookLaunch The book was launched at Race Retro, Stoneleigh, 12 -14 March 2010! When Ted Walker and I set out to record the history of Lister using Ted’s Ferret Fotographics archives as the basis, we certainly didn’t realise that what began as a relatively simple photo-book would turn into the major work that it did. But when I approached Brian Lister and told him of our intentions, he soon became personally interested in the project, and began to uncover all sorts of fascinating documents and pictures. Augmented by more period photographs from his former chief mechanic Edwin ‘Dick’ Barton, the book grew into a full- blown history of Lister, covering all Brian’s cars and telling the story of the family company, George Lister Engineering (which still flourishes today, incidentally, though it ceased to have any connection with cars after the team retired in 1959). The final cog in the mechanism, as it were, was John Pearson. As I say in the book’s introduction, John has had a longer continuous relationship with Listers than anyone else, and when I first came onto the scene around 1966, John was one of the first Jaguar racing people I met. I soon learned that for several years from 1962 he had been mechanic to John Coundley, that prolific owner and driver of Lister-Jaguars, and before that had seen the earliest Listers perform and watched Lister works driver Archie Scott Brown in his prime.